The Archive · 1900

THE snab's PAY AT HOME

On Saturday the Shah had a quiet day at home. He spent an hour over his morning cup of tea in the garden "ud then made up his mind not to go. to the Exhibition until the evening. Th having been defi Majesty felt fatigued and expressed a desire to take a Turkish bath. Constermtion immediately spread through the how-e-hold. The Royal wish had to be gratified' but how? Some one suzzested that th" Shah should go to " public bath, His suite rejected the idea with scorn. The King of Kings, they pointed out, could not are his august form in resort of infidels. Eventually a bedroom was werted into: a temporary hammam by build mense fire in the chimney, number of lange stones and pouring water on them so as to produce chuds of stun.

ks to this ingenious device the was able tohave his bath, or xometl it. After an hour's siesta, he wine: cinematograph display, received divers tradesmen and made purchases of jewellery, silks, and revolvers. He also javested in ut mail to be worn under the in ease the next anarchist hetter luck than Salsou. At nou did full justice to luncheon. Every before being placed on the table, was tasted as usual by a functionary who exis's for this tone purpose and is supposed to find out whether the food contains any poison. In the afternoon the Shah received Sir Edmund Monson and other visitors, and took a lesson in motor-car driving, doing considerable execution on the edges of the garden path: After dinner, an hour's innocent amusement at the Exhibition with the giant cinematograph and the Room of Ilusions, and so home to bed.

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