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Show LADY HOLLAND'S STRANGE FAD Chose Luncheon Hour at Period for a Foot Bath. Lady Munster, the aged granddaughter granddaugh-ter of King William IV. of England, has written an autobiography. She relates that In 1837 she went with her mother to take luncheon with Lady Holland. "To this day," sho says, "I never tnto cold turkey and salad without ihelr conjuring up In my mind's eye Holland House dining room, full of brilliant silver and glass, the smart footmen, and, most of all, a most charming looking lady with a very pale face the palest face I think I ever saw, and with such a heavenly, sweet smile. Sho sat In a largo armchair, and ber occupation seemed to me, oven young as I was, strange In a dining room. Sho was rot sitting at the dining room table with every one else, hut In a corner of the room. A maid was kneeling by her bathing the pale sweet, smiling lady's feet the loveliest white feet In a largo china foot tub! This lady was tho famous Lady Holland, and I heard It said that these, to outsiders, peculiar ablutions took place In the dining room of Holland House during luncheon whether there were visitors or not!" |