Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — Simla Society’s Idea of Fun. [ARTICLE]

Simla Society’s Idea of Fun.

One of the most amusing incidents of the recent Simla season was the Impersonation of two foreign noblemen by two gentlemen well known in Simla society, one of them posing as the war correspondent of the Italian paper, the Rome. Skillful was the disguise, and so admirably were their parts kept up, that the two distinguished foreigners spent the evening with a party in the commander-In-chiefs box, and afterward had supper on the stage with the actors without their Identity being discovered. At supper the count appeared to find the wines of the English more potent than those of his own country, and the speechless horror of the mamma when he commenced to pay marked court to her daughter very nearly caused the baron to die of suppressed laughter and apoplexy. Next day, when the hoa* was discovered, there was some fluttering in the dovecots as to what they had said to the foreign noblemen and what the wicked count had said to them. The rest of Simla roared.—Lahore Civic and Military Gazette.