The brilliance of the visit of President and Mme Lebrun which begins the day after tomorrow is not to be dimmed by the anxious politi-col times through which all are passing if London can help it, Handsome heraldic masts have been erected together as a iron. But a guide-along the Mall and in Parliament Square; Westminster Hall has been fitted with huge screens and-draught-proof doors and stoves have been buning in it for some time past, in erder, as Sir Philip Sassoon said in me House, "to dispel the chill of nine centuries in three weeks"; and the whole courtyard of the India Ofüce, which has a glass roof, has been converted into a theatre for a gala performance. What must these entertainments cost? As there was no carpet big enough to cover West-stitched together: the seams will be over a mile in length.
A gossip writer notes that for the first meal on English soil in the train from Dover "that good English course, saddle of mutton with new peas and new potatoes will be served, and immediately prints the menu thus: "saumon d'Ecosse; selle de pre sale, petits pois francais, pommes nouvelles" It may be that President and Mme Lebrun do not speak English. But all the menus will be in French and most of the food on French cookery lines. Why this in England?
It I had the entertaining of them I would take them to one of those City grills where a real chop may be had, and there is nothing like it. In these rooms women are only admitted when well under the control of a man. But greater liberties have been sacrificed for less reward.
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