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Show 1 FLOOR VARNISH If IN THE CAKE U Norrlstown, X. J.. Jan, 17, Miss i? Leonora Marchant, a prominent Now lfir Jersey society girl, is seriously ill i here fr0m poisoning contracted"-from ri eating cake in which floor varnish IjJB r was urd instead of molasses. jH I Ilss Merchant baked the cake her- jM self at the home of a friend. She 4JM uaed what fcbe thought was molasses WM In the cake, taking the liquid from I H a jar she found unlabeled on a shelf. ca:o tasted falrlygood ,'but tho 1 four persons who ate' of it were im- SB mediately taken 111. The , others H quickly recovered, but uMlss Mer- I caut's condition is serious. 9 " |