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Show SPENT CALL TIME IN BATH Hostess Meant Well, but Visitors Really Were Cut Out of Their Enjoyment. A story about two members of the English polo team, Capt. Hardress Lloyd and Capt. II. H. Wilson, was narrated with much amusement in New York. The two young men so the story runs were expected at a certain country coun-try house on the Hudson during the hot weather. Their hostess had composed com-posed with great care a program for them a program beginning with a cool bath after their journey, and running run-ning on through a motor ride, an open-air open-air luncheon, game of bridge, tea, etc. and immediately on their arrival the program was put in operation. "I know how fond you Englishmen are of bathing," the hostess said, "and now, the first thing, I Insist on your taking a bath. You look so hot and dusty I'm sure you'll enjoy It." But the guest, in their polite, mild, English way, demurred. The lady, however, was firm, and Capt. Lloyd and Capt. Wilson, murmuring inarticulate inarti-culate and vain protests, were led upstairs up-stairs by footmen to the cool marble baths. They were absent about an hour. Then, looking much cooler, they came downstairs, went straight to their hostess, hos-tess, and said hurriedly: "We are sorry to leave so aoon, but we only came to make a call, and our train goes in fifteen minutes." |