Show CARELESSNESS IN THE KITCHEN Every Everyone one has read the distressing story of the man and the woman who were killed a week ago by eating ea dumplings into which arsenic had been mixed in the mistaken belief that it i I was wu baking powder And we venture to say that few housewives failed to send end a disturbed dl thought to the kitchen II of or their own homes home Nothing is more common in the usual course of housework than the retaining there of bottles bottle and tins long after the label disappears The person in charge of the pantry knows But no one else elile in the world does know what is in the unlabelled bottle What Is in the un uncommunicative uncommunicative uncommunicative communicative can ean Octave Oct Thanet had a character in one of her southern stories a good old negro mammy who always drank the remnant In bottles left standing about the house hou e or barn She did It on the principle that the stuff had at some sometime sometime sometime time cost money and economy de demanded demanded mended that money be not wasted So Soshe Soshe Soshe she never threw it away Often Otten and often she took into her stomach material which would have killed man or beast not so constituted But It never hurt the frugal old lady And you will wUl please observe It never nevor hurt any anyone one else after atter she drank It From that time on the unlabelled bot bet bottle bottle bettie tle tie never had any dangers for any anyone one Such a means of or providing against accident is beyond the ability of people outside Miss novels But there is another very simple plan that could be adopted The bottle could be emptied and then carefully and effectually effectually effectually broken The tin can with some something somethIng something thing In it that may be b poison and may maybe mayho be ho baking powder can be laid gently but firmly In the stove or r the furnace an nn nj l i That killing hiding of the man and the I I woman a week ago was the themore more to be regretted because It was so utterly un unnecessary Unnecessary necessary nece sary Let there be no more chances In any womans kitchen |