Evening star., 1934-12-30
Tales of Well-Known Folk
In Art, Literature, Politics
Lore Of Old Taverns Brings Cheer to the Season.
Raleigh and Gadsby's Fine Examples
of Colonial Inns.

princes, dukes and smaller FRY Of the
British peerage, would be just the
book to read at mine ease in mine
inn" If there were really such place
to be found in this day of garish night
clubs, cocktail bars and semi-vaude-
Vile shows. No criticism is meant by
the foregoing; every man to his taste
and his own liquor. The diary Is
about an old coaching house at Thame
which Mr. Fothergill converted into
the Spread Eagle Inn, making it the
most famous hostelrie in England.
There one met ones friends Of the
inner circle, heard the most intimate
gossip and prognosticated the Derby
winner and the outcome Of Ascot
week in the aristocratic racing set.
Fothergill welcomed his guests with
stately courtesy, dressed in knee
breeches. with buckles on his shoes
and a flowing tie or neckerchief in
precise folds about his throat. So
fastidious was this innkeeper that
he was said to charge face money"
to persons whose looks he disliked,
thus compenSating himself and his inn
for the discomfort that any form of
uglineSS caused him.
About year ago he left Thame
to take over the Royal at Ascot but
just recently an advertisement in the
Agony Column" of the London
Times, discloseS that he would be
glad to receive offers of small hotels |
or other houses of entertainment Any
offer must have a garden attached
where he can raise herbs for his
salads and sauces.
The solons up at the Capitol have
so many things to worry about since |
the President and his New Deal keep
them on the qui vive. Just what will |
he do next and who is second in |
command? The swanky Undersecre-
tary of Agriculture or Mr.. Richberg? |
And how in the name of Secretary
IckeS, and his big fat pocketbook
are they to manage without additional
seating accommodations in the Senate
and House galleries? What is the use
of coming to Congress if the folks |
back home can not witness the glory |
from on high.
Mr.. Tinkham of Massachusetts, is
accusing Nine. Secretary Perkins of |
all kinds of things-putting the |
United States into the League of Ma
tlons, for one thing. Even the name
seems to be anathema to the gentle
man from Boston. and every one
knew what the late Senator Henry |
Cabot Lodge thought about the
League. Now, If Mr. Tinkham could |
have a heart-to-heart talk with the |
Secretary of Labor and look straight |
into her lovely eyes he might relent |
bit and find that she means no |
harm and that she does not consider |
the International Labor Organization |
a member Of the League.
The American Ambassador to Ger
many, DR.. William E. Dodd, delivered |
the annual address at the opening
session Of the American Historical
Association, of which he is president, |
and which convened in Washington |
last week.
Notwithstanding his excellency's
outSpoken utterances relative to de-
mocracy and liberalism, he is very
popular in Berlin. In addressing the
graduates Of the American School in
Berlin few months ago he said: "If
I were young person in high school
or college these revolutionary days
I would endeavor to reassess the So
cial ideals upon which the United
States was founded. I would restudy
the original thinkers of those critical
years when Franklin and Washington
and their co-workers freed the 13
Colonies and then founded the COM
plex and free society which has so
greatly influenced the modern world"
He also spoke Of Martin Luther's free
dom Of conscience for all men.
Miss Gertrude Stein has been, Is !
here still and has fascinated many in |
her audience by her subtle way of |
interpreting her own misty sentences. |
She Is clever. she is astute and she is |
foxy when it comes to quoting her |
own words. She has put whole lot
over on her secretary, Miss Alice |
Toklas, and made her say a number
of things which were her own Stein
esque mutterings. And the other |
day when they landed at the air.
port Alice simply ran around like a
chicken with its head off attending
to the luggage, while the author of
her synthetic autobiography said
things and gazed at the Washington
Monument.
Miss Toklas may go down to fame
as a martyr to friendship plus ad-
miration. Miss Stein does not hesi-
tate to throw Steinward a few bou-
quets, and says her writing is nearer
human speech than ordinary writing.
She adds, Il write just as I talk It's
all the way you hear it,
Just few weeks ago Washington
society listened with the most polite
drawing room manners to M. Bernard
Fay, Miss STEMS converted admirer
who wrote the foreword to her IAN
American in the Making" and who
confessed that he read and reread
her sentences until a glorious light of
appreciation dawned upon him. M.
Fay, Travelled around some while in
the States, made few predictions and
gave little advice to the Republican
party. His Benjamin Franklin" was
interesting from the French viewpoint
and there is perhaps none that the