asked Aunt Janet . `` There was no baking-powder in the house , and I never could get them right with soda and cream of tartar . '' `` There was plenty of baking-powder in the pantry , '' said Felicity . `` No , there was n't a particle . I used the last making those cookies Thursday morning . '' `` But I found another can nearly full , away back on the top shelf , ma , -- the one with the yellow label . I guess you forgot it was there . '' Aunt Janet stared at her pretty daughter blankly . Then amazement gave place to horror . `` Felicity King ! '' she exclaimed . `` You do n't mean to tell me that you raised those rusks with the stuff that was in that old yellow can ? '' `` Yes , I did , '' faltered Felicity , beginning to look scared . `` Why , ma , what was the matter with it ? '' `` Matter ! That stuff was TOOTH-POWDER , that 's what it was . Your Cousin Myra broke the bottle her tooth-powder was in when she was here last winter and I gave her that old can to keep it in . She forgot to take it when she went away and I put it on that top shelf . I declare you must all have been bewitched yesterday . '' Poor , poor Felicity !
If she had not always been so horribly vain over her cooking and so scornfully contemptuous of other people 's aspirations and mistakes along that line , I could have found it in my heart XXXXX pity her .
Janet TOOTH-POWDER at in of on rusks that to with