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Show What the Housekeeper Thought. Few well-known people havo dono more for the cause of temperance than Lady Henry Somerset, and recently she mado an eloquont plea tor clubs tor women as a means ot combating the drink evil. Lady Honry, for all her Bortousncss, is very fond ot a Joke, and tho story goes llmt many years ago sho and n lady friend played a capital ono on tho servants ot her ladyship's country mansion. Thoy both dressed up as French tourists, Lady Henry wearing a thick veil, and wcro shown round tho placo by tho housokcoper. Lady Honry signed her namo In tho visitors' book as "Duchosso do Mont-moroncl." Mont-moroncl." Lator on, tho unsuspecting housekeeper, who evidently did not think that tho "French" ladles had been sulllclontly lavish In their praise of tho house, told Lady Henry that "that Duchesso do Montmoroncl Is a dlsagrccablo porson I " Pearson's. |