Evening star., 1922-01-15
THE RAMBLER VISITS ENGLISH FAMILY
SETTLED IN OLD MARYLAND HOMESTEAD

close to Washington. as their home,
and their father, o. f. Downing,
bought the Capt. Meade homestead
and farm, which is westward and
across the boulevard from the Duvall
place. The young men are Alfred.
Kenneth, Eric. Frank and Dudley,
f, born at Canterbury. New Zealand.
and George, born in London. There
is sister. Marian, who was born
| in Sussex.
We ratified on at the dinner table
and talked about everything that
1 came into our heads. Mrs. kelk and
| Misses Violet and Olive are members
| of the dancing club at Beltsville.
and what larks we had in talking of
| the toddle and all the new and old
! steps that could be put into it-turn
| with the two-step, throw in the
grapevine step and the scissors step
! whenever the thought comes to mind.
twinkle" now and then, put in that
series OF steps the name of which the
Rambler does not know, but which
, may be described as the old twinkle"
| steps, done sidewise. and take the
sidewise glide whenever you want to.
and vary things a little with the
| waltz step, which you do very easily
| in the toddle fox trot.
! The boys have set a large patch of
| the farm apart as a soccer field
| get that?-soccer field. And the Ram
bier will bet one of the nowadays
Scent cigars which we used to call
"two-fors" against a wad of chewing
| gum that there will be a cricket field
| on the Duvall-kelk farm or on the
Meade-Downing place next spring.
| Also, the Rambler hopes that in ad-
| justing themselves to Maryland they
will set up three tournament (gener-
| ally pronounced "toonermunt') arches
! and tilt with shimmering lances at
the rings. He hopes that these young
| fellows will become adept in this
| ella sic Maryland sport, that each will
| crown some lovely maiden as the
| queen of Love and Beauty" and lead
| her forth in the royal set at the coro-
| nation ball
| x X X
GENERAL members of the kelk
] udNc liol YET DcSh iich-
| toned by the Rambler. One Of these
! is not a permanent member of the
| family, but is just sojourning, as it
were, in Prince Georges county His
popular name is "Frenchy," though, I
| believe, this is not the name his
| mother gave him. The Rambler ad-
! dressed him as Grimaud, Musqueton
| l,y, oh he cd nd
| showed happy animation. l called
him Bazin and he frowned. / said,
| Come here. Mazarin," and he failed
! to bulge He responded pleasantly
to ''Olivain" and 'Louvieres" and
"Friquet," but when 1 called him
.Raoul, Viscount de Bragelonne," he
wanted to put his paws around my
neck and lick my face. He is Of
| that breed called a French bulldog
and belongs to a Mrs. Wright, In
! Washington, a friend of Miss olive.
His mistress, being about to leave
the city for a short time, and believ-
ing that the air of the country would
| do him good. and that association
with rabbit hounds and fox hounds
! would broaden his education, re-
auested him to accompany Miss Olive
home.
| We got on famously. He barks
; with a clear enunciation and his ac-
/ cent sometimes suggests, Brittany,
sometimes Gascony. sometimes Lam
guedoc, sometimes Auvergne, some
times Anjou and at other times Aqui-
taine. He said he was having trouble
| to make himself understood in Eng
{ lish, because, while he had read ad-
( vertisements that French could be
mastered in seven easy lessons, he
had not found any teacher who would
| make such promises with regard to
English.