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Show CONSUELO'S GUESTS. Taking the Knelpp Curs Eyerj Morning at lleautirul Blenheim. Consuelo, duchess of Marlborough, inherited from her mother, Mrs.- 0. H. P. Belmont, the talent of an expert entertainer. en-tertainer. Progressive and charming, eleven and rich, she is constantly devising de-vising new ways to amuse her guests and succeeds far beyond most other hostesses in England. For a mont back she and her husband have been amusing themselves and their frienda with what they call recuperation parties. par-ties. Blenheim, one of the finest old country seats in England, is at its loveliest love-liest in the early fall, and Just now is crowded with guests, mostly young people resting after their dissipations of summer and building up against the ravages of a winter society campaign yet to come. The Kneipp cure has many devotees among Consuelo's guests, and every morning they may be seen walking barefooted on a demy lawn as large as a city square. Somewhere Some-where near 100 people are staying at Blenheim, and over half that number are taking the Kneipp cure, believing lhat dew upon the feet in the morning acts as a nerve tonic, freshening up the entire system for all day. Tha time for the dew cure is between 5 and 6 In the morning, for after that the sun has absorbed the dew. The walk is taken before breakfast with only a glass of milk in the stomach. The bath follows, then comes breakfast, break-fast, and after breakfast the Kneipp girls play tennis. It takes only a few days of this treatment to bring back bright eyes and roses, but whether improved condition is due to ths Kneipp cure or to the regular life and early hours which the young duchess imposes upon her guests may well ba regarded as an open question. |