The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-10

and make his audience understand
kiping.
1t would indeed have been difficult to
pay more graceful compliment to the
entente cordiale than to try to run the
author Of Soldiers Three" and the Bar
rack Room Ballads, and with him the
nation behind him, into the smooth mould
of a conference-thatm mixture no ouriously
French, of clear thinking and graceful
expression. of sensitive definition and
personal charm, all blended into a whole
so intellectually neat and modulsted that
an audience like this may take it with
the same sense OF being cheered, yet
not inebriated, with which their allies
across the Channel take their afternoon
tea.
A Frenchman of generation ago
would scarcely have recognized the
England pictured by the amiable Bor-
deauN professor, and am not sure that
in this entirely altruistic big brother
of little nations the English would have
recognized themselves. But at any
rate, polite fiutters Of applause pune
tuated the talk and az the end NJ Cestre
asked his audience to rise as he paid his
final tribute to the people now fighting
the common battle with France. They
all stood up and, smiling up at the left
hand proscenium box saluted the British
Ambassador, Sir Francis BERTHE, with
long and enthusiastic applause. man
in the gallery even ventured "Heepl
Heepl" and every one drifted out very
content indeed
In the foyer saw one lady carefully
| spelling out with her lorgnette one OF the
words on the list posted there of the
subjects for conferences.
-Ah!" she said, and. considerably as
sured apparently, "Keep-lingl" But then
she may have come in late
The war has been hard on the main
business OF the neighborhood. of course
Germany was the heaviest buyer OF
Bordeaux wine Russia is next, and not
as much as usual, naturally. will go to
England and America, The vintage
this year. like that of TO- is said to be
good, however, and though the young
men have gone and the wine making
was not as gay as usual there were
enough old men and women left to dc
the work. We visited one OF the Older
wine houses yesterday nearly two cen
turtles old it is-and tramped through
the cellars which burrow now on tive
levels under a whole city block. Their,
are some 1000, 900 bottles down ther,
in the dark and dust.
There il something patriarchal ant
prinoely about such a house almost un
known in our businesses at home-fron
the portraits OF the founders from tn,
cask makers at lunch time broilnI
their own fish over a huge fireplace anC
drawing wine from the common casl
as they have done for generations, anC
the stencils in the shipping room-"Balti
more, "Bogota. "Buenos Ayres," aChi
cago," Calcutta" "Christania, "Cara
! cas"-from things like these to the per
sonality and point of view of the mtI
who have the business in charge.
Now, wine" began the charming gentle
man who showed us round. lis a livinI
thing And though you coul,
see that he had showed many peopl
about in his day and was not unaware O
what might interest them-that he was, Ii
short, a glad hand artist OF the most &C
complshed kind, yet one could also Sc
that he liked his work and believed in IL
anu kIt" Niii' hS fi "ihoh'hi Rip"h ldHt
tulips, and not as mere salesman.
, To he sure, he was inclined TO slur owe
tho importance of white wine, while cham
, payne and its perfldious makers didn
interest him in the least; but of the re
, wine of Bordeaux. its lightness, bouquet
i and general beneilcence, and tho delcat
and aifectionate care with which IL wa
handled, one could have heard him tai
all day Now and then younger house
discovered things that were going I
revolutionize the wine trade.
. "Of course" he said, I'VE examine sue
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