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Show Where It Was Appropriate. Lord Kitchener, it is said, is very pleased with the result of the present temperance move. "We are all temperate now," said his lordship rcently. "To get drunk is an unheard-of thing among gentlemen. 1 a gentleman ever gets drunk nowadays he has, you may be sure, a remarkable excuse to offer." To illustrate his point Lord Kitchener told this story: A major, after a fancy dress ball at Simla, came home drunk ' and his shocked wife said to him: "Aren't you ashamed to return from the ball in that condition?" "Don't blame me, my dear, saiei tne major; "you must remember that the character I assumed was that of a sponge." |