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Show An Expensive Guest Count Ilya Tolstoy of Russia, now lecturing in this country, has a very thrifty manager, who does not propose pro-pose to allow the Count to lend his presence to any function without pay. So, when a group of Chicago professors pro-fessors sought to honor the Count by inviting him to a luncheon, the manager mana-ger wired an acceptance, but stipulfctd that a fee of Sot) would be charged. The hospitably inclined professors were at first dumfounded by the suggestion sug-gestion that 'they must pay $50 for the privilege of entertaining the Count After consultation they delegated one of their number to reply to the manager, mana-ger, which he did in the following telegram. "How do you get that way? Wj might be able to afford breakfast or a chocolate soda with the Count What is your scale for toast and tea with Tolstoy? Also go jump in the lake." A pleasing" part of the story is that Count Tolstoy later told it on himself and exhibited the telegram to amused newspaper men. |