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Show Origin of "Toasting." "Toantlr.K" appears to have origin nted at Bath, Kngland. lt( was tho habit 200 years iiko for ladles to bathe In public, dressed In buckiain, In tho company of their male friends and iicfliinlntnneoB. One day it cole-brated cole-brated beauty was so bathing, surrounded sur-rounded by her admirers, who were dipping their Rlasses hi ti-.e water and drinking her health. One of theso, being be-ing rather the worse for drink, swore ho did not llko tho lluu-. but would get tho "toast," and co- ' hardly bo restralne! from Jumpln? "j'o tho water. wa-ter. He alluded to the practice of the dny, of adding a ploco of toast to the special wlno or other beverage |