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Show LADY HOLLAND'S STRANGE FAD Chose Luncheon Hour as Period fr n Foot Bath. Lady Munster. the aged granddaughter granddaugh-ter of King WiUlftm IV. of England, has written an autobiography. Sho relites that in 18.17 sho went with hor mother to take luncheon with Lady Holland. "To this dny," sho soys, "I nover ta-Uo cold turkey and salad without their conjuring up In my mind's oyo Holland Houso dining room, full of brilliant Bllvcr and glass, tho smart footmen, and, most of all, n most charming looking lady with a very palo faco tho palest faco I think I ever Baw, and with such a heavenly, swcot smilo. Sho sat In n largo armchair, and her occupation soemed to mo, oven young n3 I was, strango In a dining room. Sho was not sitting at tho dining room tablo with overy ono olso, but In a cornor of tho room. A maid was kneeling by her bathing tho palo, swcot, smiling lady's foot tho loveliest whlto feot In a large china foot tubl This lady was tho famous Lady Holland, and I hoard it Bald that theso, to outsldors, peculiar ablutions took placo In tho dining room of Holland Houso during luncheon whether thcro wcro visitors or not!" |