The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1903-12-26
BRYAN AT A
LONDON DINNER
HOW the Guests Were I'm.
pressed With the Nebraskan.
TALKED ON SERIOUS sUBJECTs
"nSi1shwonaan Who Met Him .,t +,,,.
house OF Titled Lady savs th.
"eh Interested Him and Ee IN.
men-EaEer to Learn About 3rft1.h
folitics and Institutions, III

men-EaEer to Learn About 3rft1.h
Politics and Institutions. III
A private letter that we are ,cruit.
ted to print, says the Boston Tram.
SCRIPT gives an Interesting account az
English impressions of Mr.. Villa
Jennings Bryan during his recent So
clal experiences in London: ~
Late In the afternoon came y notc
from Lady \. asking mother and me
10 help her out at a dinner she was ar.
ranging at the last moment for a dis
tlnguished American. I've been asked
to help out with so many distinguished
Americans on the strength Of my nine
months in the States that took it as 4
matter OF course and after oil those
Alaska dinners expected nobody more
distinguished than some lawyer. Moth
er, who wanted to stay at shome,l
thought there were enough .distins
guished Americans through the sum
mer and that it was u pity il they
were going to dribble through. the win
ter too 4
"Shc went. though, with good
grace. and as soon as we had shaken
hands Lady Y. whispered to me, OF
course you met Mr.. Bryan when. you
were in the States 1t was o.&my
tongue to say I'd never heard of him.,
when my wits came back to me and i
murmured that hadn't. but that 4
had heard something about him; that
New York. Boston and Philadelphia
weren't the part of the country whcre
Mr.. Bryan lived. Oh says Lady y.
and looks disappointed, 'and l put you
in speaking distance. But he won't
mind us. It's the men that interest
him, and he the men, With that she
waved her fan. and had my first
glimpse Of Mr.. Bryan. and Of all places
in u London drawing room.
Lady y. was right. He was talking
to the men. and the men to him. and
we women tiocked by ourselves on the
outskirts, Of no more real account than
the ornaments OIL the chimney piece
eotiltl hear MIR. BIS big, deep yoic's
Irumbllns through over lighter ones and
see his long black hair Mamma said
he sounded like Gladstone. who never
could talk. but was always 'addressing,'
and O.. who tries to be smart about
everything American because he was
six months in Washington, whispered
when he took me in that all statesmen
ir the States wore their hair that way.
He'd seen 'em by the dozen in Wash
ingtOn.
''In due time we made our cOurteSies
to the distinguished American but he
showed that We women didn't interest
him much. and he certainly hasn't any
small talk to help him through dinner
Every time we slipped into 1t in spite
Of ourselves Lady y. could see him
slipping out and looked warnings down
the table and turned the talk on some
serious subject that Q. wanted to bet
me half sovereign that she didn't
know anything about. However. there
were enough that did, and l haven't
heard such Instructive conversation in
months. Mr.. Bryan was eager to learn
all about English politics and institu-
tions and how they worked. Blank and
Blank were just as keen about Amer
lean institutions and what they did.
Some of the rest Of us expected him to
tell good stories. The Alaska lawyers
all did, but he was too much in earnest
for that. Q. said he had reputation to