The Washington times., 1934-08-02

I did when I was in England
was to go to the 'Tattoo-a
magnificent military display
or circus held at Aldershot.
I was asked to 60 to this
by Mrs. Boise PenroSe, who I
had met on the Bremen on
my way to England. We left
London at $3.50 and drove
about 10 miles to a. gorgeous
old English house in Surrey
county.
It has in the last year been
bought by the present owner,
who got it from a man whose
family had owned it for $50
years.
There was large party pres
ef1t for tea, which was delight
full. When, the host heard I
was an. American farmer and
= had raised cattle he not only
took me over the grounds and
gardens, but over as. much of
the lovely fields as we had
time to see, where he had
droveS Of Hereford cattle,
which in spite Of the lack Of
Sains were looking sleek and fat.
From here IL of us got into
different cars and started for
Aldershot, stopping on the way
to have dinner at an attrac-
tive old inn-and then on to
the Tattoo.
This was held out of doors
and was shown by strong
.searchlights thrown all over the
grounds, 10000 regimental
troops taking part and 15O,.
900 spectators looking on.
The beautiful colors of the
different uniforms and the
spectacular pageant that they
carried out was a grand sight.
At $3.50 there was community
singing.
The Queen, with a number of
guests, came. from Windsor
Castle that night and was given
the royal, salute as she entered.
Seats for the spectators were
raised all around a lovely valley
Tin the openO with large trees
as a background, from which
the soldiers entered.
The Tattoo is held in England
for a week every year for the
benefit Of disabled soldiers.
They have had it for the last
IL years.
It was well after 12 o'clock
when we finally got back to
our car to go home. My host
and hostess and some of the
guests were going to their homes
in the country and some of us
were going back to London-I
was put in the car with a
Countess.
She seemed a bit "upstagey"
and I wondered what we could
talk about on the long drive
back to London. We started
off politely, though a little
Stiffly, and had gone for some
miles when we had a flat tire
and had to get out in the road
while the chauffeur was trying
to change it.
Such q dark night I never
saw. I lit all the matches we
had, but still the tire was no
where near changed.
I suggested politely to the
man that he try to get a flash
light from somewhere, but he
either didn't understand me or
didn't want to, so as he was
fu1nbling around in the dark
and the Countess, all perturbed,
was standing by-I started
down the road in the dark to
try and get help. After a quarter
Of a mile 7 came to a cross road
and q nice policeman Cor
SsBobby''C who lent me a flash
light, which I brought back to
the stupid chauffeur.
The Countess at once thought
more Of me. I could see, so we
walked down the road to a little
inn I had found and got a glass
Of beer while waiting for our
car.
Off we started again and
when we had gone 10 miles fur
ther the driver said he didn't
know where we were and he be-
lieved we were on the wrong
road but that he would go on
until we met someone to ask.
He was the chauffeur of our
friend who had taken us to the
3 Tattoo so we thought we would
let him have his way, but when
we had passed several people
and he asked them nothing, the
Countess got quite human and
yelled out her side of the car to
q man on a bicycle, who told us
we were miles on the wrong
road. The driver then told us
we had very little gas and there
was no station open that we
could find.
The Countess and I then pre-
pared to stay in the car the rest
Of the night as we went along
in the dark. BY then we were
very chummy and she confided