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Show Origin of "Toasting." "Toasting" appears to havo origin- " atod at Bath, England. It was the -J habit 200 years ago for ladles to bath J -In public, dressed In buck! am, vji In tho company, ofahoIrmaIefrlr.ijaV..-yBrJC ytnti 'uoivi;..i.rfra. on any a celo- - Vm brntod beauty was so oathlnu, sur-1 V N rounded by her ndmircrs, who were- lf dipping their glasses in tho water and if drinking her health. One of these, he- n lng rather tho worso for drink, swore he did not liko the liquor, but would W get tho "toast," and could hardly bo J restrained from Jumping into the wa- m ter. He alluded to the practice of the 1 day, of adding a piece of toast to the 1 special wine or other beverage. K |