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Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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called mineral water we use at table is specially still and dead,
and we think it may have been compared to its disadvantage with
other more sparkling beverages, since every bottle bears a printed
label announcing, "To Distrust of the mineral waters too foaming,
since that they do invariable spread the Stomach."

We learn also by studying another bottle that "The Wermouth is a
white wine slightly bitter, and parfumed with who leso me aromatic
herbs." Who leso me we printed in italics in our own minds, giving
the phrase a pure Italian accent until we discovered that it was
the somewhat familiar adjective "wholesome."

In one of the smaller galleries we were given the usual pasteboard
fans bearing explanations of the frescoes:-

Room I. In the middle. The sin of our fathers.

On every side. The ovens of Babylony. Moise saved from the water.

Room II. In the middle. Moise who sprung the water.

On every side. The luminous column in the dessert and the ardent
wood.

Room III. In the middle. Elia transported in the heaven.

On every side. Eliseus dispansing brods.

Room IV. The wood carvings are by Anonymous. The tapestry shows
the multiplications of brods and fishs.
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