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Show AS TO THE CHANGING OF SPOTS.' B IB 1 Three young men of the temperament artistic m had fitted up with much gaudy display a suite of m rooms in a well-known local apartment house. All m that was needed to complete the equipment' was , B a bath tub, and as most of the combined capital j jH of the trio had been expended in more spectacular j H fixtures,' a tin tub was utilized. ' H But it was very beautiful when the aesthetic H young men had bedecked it with a large winter jh H coat of varnish. They shook dice for the first bath 1 1 H in the new reservoir, and when the repository L H had been filled with bot water the lucky -one l ( H plunged in, even as Cassius leaped into the't'rou- 'r H bled waters of the Tiber. - H His outcoming was not so dramatic. Varnish " M on tin is not notable for adhesiveness when' hot , M water is applied, and when the dripping young i M beau stepped forth he looked like a combination H between a tattooed man and a speckled tiger. ( M It may be added that the giddy trio are -not M bathing with the accustomed regularity of lafe. fl |