DIPLOMAT AND A TINTACK.
Mrs Nicholas Loiucworth (Miss Alice Riwevelt), according to an uucontmdict«] Ktnry nubii.sTi.d in tho American Prrss b:\s groat-ly scandalised the Diplomat ii- Corps at Washington by her idea of what const 11 uUv> a practical joke. A iW days airo (sara tlu> "Daily Mail's*' correspondent) , was Kitting in 1.11 c.aik'-n- <>i »lv? House of Ik-pry-v-iir-n slit' found a tintack. The prwodinss wnro intr.!i»rably dinl. Hud uhe daugbwir of tho l'rcsideat re-
licvixl thn monotoTiy ,iy placi.ng the t-i: :n in thr> ivntre of an oniptv in t!;'.- djplonwti:: £,i]!;t.v. tshcrtly after .1 1 r(K.ri-<M^\i-l diplomat. \rho.=e na-mp 1? not fnvon. arrival, fr-t luavily on tho t,-ick, and rcee asaJn in frantic Ji--!.-..:-». Tho <liplonutt gazx-d furiously Jii UlO direction of >irs ljonff-.vortii, who, ho-.vevor. was looking the othor way. She am! hor left a nioijiorit later, <lo!i ? ht«liy grinning at the success of tin. , j->ko.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13151, 25 June 1908, Page 7
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