Show STORIES OF hOSTIlE SECWmS ItBCAIiED EY A VISIT AFV JALE 1 TO THE irOfFE AT VIEWAR Ihlnd the diningroom wIt steps leading 1 the garden Is a wide room rurnisiieu wiui Sl In u uu Goethe rm often received his intimate writer in Scnoner friends says a wrter S nc A story Is toM that on Ole occasion slor to a hlh Weimar dignitary came hh sec Uoethe who was a prime minister minis-ter of the little state on a matter of public businesS He was Informed that his excellency was seriously waited encased The mInister vlc patIently outside for a long time At last ho heard the chorus of a German drinking tons proceeding from this room lie joined mIn m-in it The door opened and ho found Goethe and Schiller E te comfortably together with a bottle 1 ubon of excellent Jthlnc wine on the tabie n Fnm the other end of the din ingroom on the left opens the so called II room above the principal prin-cipal drawing room of Goethes time I derives its name from the colo sal bust of the Jubovlsl Juno which adorns it Here 1 this phno 00 which the boy Mendelssohn played to the astonishment of everyone every-one A short time before my visit Empress Augusta of Germany had l been to the house As a princess of SaxeWelmar the Aj hind known Goethe well She remembered how die had sat on the fame sod at the tame table while Goethe brought out books of drawings to show her and that iwor l lIthe boy played on the piano v r nervous nerv-ous A sliding door gives access to another drawingroom called even In Goethes time the Urbino room from an old Italian portrait of a duke of Urbino This room communicates com-municates also with Goethes own ileIn rooms and I was by this passage that he came to receive lilt The guests were assembled guests e the sliding et was drawn back and the stately figure of the Geheinirath appeared with his court coat and stars On the othcrslde of the diningroom are two rooms filled now as in Goethes time with costly collections The first of these was always OJHH to visitors the farther ole was never accessible I |