HOUSEHOLD TALKS Henrietta D. Grauel Adulterated Foods What indication of character is given foods by the labels on cartons and cans is a question that few answer alike. A well prepared food, pure, wholesome and praiseworthy always bears the name of its packer or maker, but adul terated and badlv made articles often hear addresses that are misleading or fictitious. So perhaps the safest way to secure pure food is to study manu facturers' names and select package foods by this test. Housekeepers have had so much in struction regarding adulterants in the past four years that they have their suspicions easily aroused and dealers are finding that it is difficult to sell indifferently good foods. Though labels are sometimes bard tn understand, if not intentionally mis leading, the price of an article will often enlighten the buyer. Almost all food now has a certain money value, and if these staples are offered at "bar gain" prices you may be very sure they are not good bargains. The best and only sure way to detect ndulteration is by chemical analysis and this is one rea-son why educators insist on the practical value of chem istry in our schools. Girls with even n little knowledge of chemistry will be able to lell when there are impurities in foods. I'erhaps nothing is so adulterated as 1 utter, for there is not enough pure butter produced to supply the current demand for it in any month of the year. Process butter or renovated but ter anil oleomargarine are frequently mixed in with butter or sold for it. Here is a test for butter that anyone may make. Put a bit of butter, as large as a marble, ill a big spoon and heat it over a low flame. Stir it with a straw or a wire as it heats. Pure butter will boil quietly and have much foam on it. Renovated butter sput ter sand pops and oleomargarine has an odor of tallow when it is very hot. 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If it has value —an advertisement in the Classilied columns of THE STAR-INDEPENDENT will get you effective results. ACT WITHOUT DELAY Bell Phone 3280 Independent 245 or 246 ! There are other (Kfiiple tests like this : that the majority of housekeepers know. For instance; sugar, salt, baking pow der and cornstarch should dissolve com pletely in water. If there is a sedi j ment "or any color, they arc impure. Genuine coffee can be distinguished ' from coffee ground with chicory or cereuls if a tablespoon of it is put into a tumbler of cold water, for the coffee will float but the added ingredients will ! sink and leave a trace of color as they ; go down. The tests that we judge most often j by are appearance, odor and taste, and ! the experienced housekeeper can usual . ly fyt a correct opinion of ,the purity i of foods by this. But a short course I in domestic science will give any worn ! an "a reason for the faith within." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS .Mrs. R. asks: "Wher« can I buy ! asbestos for making table matsf" Reply.—This asbestos is sold by | hardware dealers and stove makers and I you can have it cut any size and thick- I ness vou like. • * » Mrs. .1. J. D. asks: "Can pure or grain alcohol be used in alcohol lamps J" j Reply.—Yes, but it is more expensive j than denatured alcohol which is in- I tended for heating and similar uses.' i BLIND MAX'S PENSION RAISED Abraham Mowery to Get $24 a Month Through Ruplcy's Efforts j (Special to the .Star-Independent.) Washington, D. C.,, March 13.—The last omnibus pension bill signed by the President carried an appropriation for pensions for twenty residents of the State of Pennsylvania. Of these twenty | bills, nine were Introduced by Con» | gressman Arthur R. Rupley, of Car-' lisle. The following persons, for whom Congressman Rupley introduced special bills, will receive pensions or incrpasep in tho pensions which they are now re ceiving: Mrs. Mary A. MeElwee, of Carlisle, pension increased to $24 a mouth and j the provision inserted that at the death I of Mrs. MeiElwee her dependent daugh ter, Miss Maggie J. MeElwee, will re ceive a pension at the rate ut sl2 a month during lie, lifetime. Mrs. Mary K Diehl, of Carlisle, sl2 a month; Mrs. ( arrie San no, of Car lisle, S2O; Charles U. Burns, of West Fairview, increased to S3O; Abraham Mowery, of Harrisburg, who is almost totally blind, increased- to $24; Mrs. Susan Dovenor, of Shippensburg, S2O; Mrs. Elizabeth J. Kendig, of Newville, S2O; Edward H. Richards, of McKees port, sl7, and Mrs. Katharine Ann Fisher, sl2 During his term in Congress Mr. Rupley has secured tihe passage of six- I teen special bills, >n addition to aiding in having a large number of cases fa- I vornibly considered in the Pension Bu | reau. | BUSINESS COLLEGES i f « Begin Preparation Now Day and Night Sessions SCHOOL of COMMERCE 15 S. Market Sq M Harrisburg, Pa. j HBG. BUSINESS COLLEGE 329 Market Street j Fall Term September First I DAY AND NIGHT *■ — Cumberland Valley iiailroad In EBact May 24. 1»1«. Trains Leave HarrUbure— For Winchester and Martlnsbitrg. at I 5.V3, *7.50 a. m„ *3.40 p. m. ! For Hageritown, Chanaberaburg and I .niermeciiate stations, at *S.O3, •7.6®, , 1...3 u. in., "3.40. 5.32. •7.4#, li.Oil i p. m. | Additional trains for Carlisle ana ! Mechanlcsburg at 9.48 a. m.. 2.15. 3,27. c, 3u. a.3u p. m. For Dlllsburg at 5.03. *7.60 and Ml.il I u. m.. 2.15. "3.40. 5.32. 6.30 p. m. •Dally All othar trains dally nxc»x>' . Sunday. J H- TONGA, H A. RIDDLE), Q. P. A. dune. KARRISBURO STAR-INDEPENDENT, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1915. PADROrfifCD. MOD J The Caiyc t The Place °f Honeymoons, efc. ' COPYRIGHT BY Wl£ BOB3J-nTSWLL CO/7/XJiY _ W CONTINUED "I shouldn't advise that. But we have gone astray. You ought not to see him again." "It is a hateful world!" Elsa ap pealed to the wife. "It is, Elsa, dear. But James is right." "You'll get your balance," said the guardian, "when you reach home. When's the wedding?" "I'm not sure that I'm going to be married." Elsa twirled the sunshade "I'm Not Sure That I'm Going to Be Married." again. "Oh. bother with It all! Din ner at eight, in the big dining room." "Yes. But the Introductions will be made on the cafe veranda. These peo ple out here have gone mad over cock- ! tails. And look your best, Elsa. I want them to see a real American girl tonight. I'll have eome roses sent up to you." Elsa had not the heart to liim that al' interest in his dinner had suddenly gone from her mind; that the confusion of the colonel no longer appealed to her hitter malice. She knew that she was going to be bored and miserable. When she was gone, the consul gen eral's wife said: "Poor girl!" Her husband looked across the room Interestedly. "Why do you say that?" "I am a woman." "That phrase is the City of Refuge All women fly to it when confronted by something they do not understand.'' "Oh, but I do understand. And that's the pity of it." CHAPTER XIV. According to the Rules. Elsa sought the hotel rickshaw stand, selected a sturdy coolie, and aßked to be run to the botanical gar dens and back. She wanted to be aiona, wanted breathing space, wanted the breeze to cool her hot cheeks. For she was angry at the world, angry at the gentle consul general, above all, angry at herself. To have laid hersel! open to the charge of indiscretion! To have received a lecture, however kind ly intended, from the man she loved and respected next to her father! To know that persons were exchanging nods and whispers behind her back! It was a detestable world. It was folly to be honest, to be kind, to be individual, to have likes and dislikes,' unless these might be regulated by outsiders. Why should she care what people 6aid? She did not care. What made her furious was the absolute stupidity of their deductions/ She had not been indiscreet; she had been merely kindly and human; 'and if they wanted to twist and misconstrue hei actions, let them do so. Once or twice she saw inwardly the will-o'-the-wisp lights of her soul. But resolutely she smothered the sparks. The coolie stopped suddenly. "Go on,*; she said. But the coolie smiled and wiped hi* shaven poll. Elsa gazed at the hotel veranda in bewilderment. Slowly she got out of the rickshaw and paid the fare. She had not the slightest recol lection of having seen the gardens : More than this, it was a quarter t< j seven. She had been gone exactly at hour. "Perhaps, after all," she thought, "11 am hopeless. They may be right; 1. ought to have a guardian. I am not always accountable for what I do." She dressed leisurely and with cal I culation. She was determined to con vince everyone that she was a beau tlful woman, above suspicion, above reproach. The spirit within her was ' not, however, in direct accord with this determination. Malice stirred into life again; and she wanted to hurt someone, hurt deeply. It was only the tame in spirit who, when injured, sub mit ted without murmur or protest And Elsa, only dimly aware of it, was ! mortally hurt. "Elsa," said Martha, "that frown i will stay there some day, and never go away." Elsa rubbed it out with her finger "Martha, do you recall that tiger in the cage at Jaipur? How they teased him until he lost his temper and came smashing against the bars? Well, 1 sympathise with that brute. He would have been peaceful enough had they let him be. If Mr. Warrington calls to morrow, say that I am indisposed." Martha evinced her satisfaction visibly. The frown returned between ■ Biisa's eyes and remained there until she went downstairs to Join the consul general and his wife. She found some very agreeable men and women, and some of her natural gayety returned. At a far table on the veranda she saw Craig and Mallow In earnest conversa tion. She nodded pleasantly to the colo nel as the head boy came to announce that dinner was served. Anglo-Indian society had so many twists' and rami fications that the situation was not ex actly new to the old soldier. True, none had confronted him identical to this. But he had not disciplined men all these years without acquiring abun dant self-control. The little veins In his nose turned purple, as Elsa prophesied they would, but there was no other indication of how distasteful th 6 moment lyas to him. He would surely warn the consul general, whc doubtless was innocent enough. They sat down. The colonel blinked "Fine prssage we had coming down." "Was it?" returned Elsa Innocently The colonel reached for an olive and bit into it savagely. He was no fool. She had him at the end of a blind alley, and there he must wait until she ! was ready to let him go. She could harry him or pretend to ignore him, as suited her fancy. He was caught. Women, all women, possessed at least one attribute of the cat. It was dig glng in the claw, hanging by It, and boredly looking about the world to see what was going on. At that moment i the colonel recognized the sting of the ' claw. Elsa turned to her right and en gaged the French consul discursively; ; indeed, she gradually became the cen i ter of interest; she drew them inten I tlonally. She brought a touch of home to the Frenchman, to the German, tc the Italian, to the Spaniard; and tlu British official, in whose hands th« civil business of the Straits settle ments rested, was charmed to learr that Elsa had spent various week-end: at the home of his sister In Surrey. 1 And when she admitted thaf sh« was the daughter of General Chet wood, the man to whom the Indlar government had cause to be grateful upon more than one occasion, for th< solidity of his structures, the colone' realized definitely the seriousness o: his crucifixion. He sat stiffer and stiffer in his chair, and the veins li his nose grew deeper and deeper it hue. He saw clearly that he would never understand American women. He had committed an outrageous blun der. He, instead of dominating, had been dominated by three faultfinding old women; and/without being'aWare of the fact, had looked at things from their point of view. A most Inconceiv able blunder. He would not allow that he was being swayed less by the admis sion of his unpardonable rudeness on board than by the immediate knowl edge that Elsa was known to the Brit ish official's sister, a titled lady who stood exceedingly high at court. "Miss Chetwood," he said, lowering his voice for her ears only. Elsa turned, but with the expression that signified that her attention was engaged elsewhere. "Yes?" "I am an old man. i am sixty-two; and most of these sixty-two I have lived roughly; but I am not too old to realize that I have made a fool of my self." Interest began to fill Elsa's eyes. "It has been Fald," he went on, keep ing the key, "that I am a man of cour age, but I find that I need a good deal of that just now. I have been rude to you, and without warrant, and I offer you my humble apologies." He fum bled with his cravat as If It had sud denly tightened. . "Will you accept?" "Instantly." Elsa understood the quality of courage that had 6tirred the colonel. But ruthlessly: "I.should, nowever, like your point of view in re gard to what you consider my con duct." "Is it necessary?" "I believe it would be better for my understanding If you made a fyll con fession." She did not mean to be re lentless, but her curiosity was too strong not to press her advantage. "Well, then, over here as elsewhere In the world there are standards by which we judge persons who come un der our notice." "Agreed. Individuality 1B not gen- I eraily understandable." "By the mediocre, you might have i added. That's the difficulty with lndl | viduallty; It refuses to be harnessed by mediocrity and mediocrity holde the whip-hand, always. I represent the mediocre." "Oh, never!" said Elsa animatedly. 1 "Mediocrity is always without cour ' age." "You are wrong. It has the courage of its convictions."' "Rather Is it not stubbornness, will ful refusal to recognize things as they are?' 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