Show THE CHESHIRE CHEESE the famous old time london ites R caurant faa tau ranc rant of course everybody who does london goes to the famous cheshire cheese in fleet street for luncheon it is one of the show places an ancient tavern that has retained all its early characteristics te from the plain furniture of its stuffy little crowded coffee room to the rough pewter mugs in which ia 13 served your ale or bitter if you are I 1 in luck be sure to get the coveted I 1 seat at the head of the table near the old fashioned fireplace labeled in I 1 brass tablet as samuel johnsons favorite I 1 corner comer here on the straight I 1 backed hard wooden settee in the sawdust and sand and amid smoke and dirt and smell of cookery sat johnson with pipe and bowl holding forth to the clever gentlemen of his day and association liven even the eight of the brass tablet and the big grease spot on an the wall that still bears the impress u of hl his learned head do not inspire me as I 1 ought vo ta be inspired for I 1 cannot appreciate this tad fad tar r ings in which to eat perhaps johnson had no better place to go in his time but we certainly have the cheese however is apparently typical of all of 0 the historic inns of the older civilization and one wonders why the and learned of that time should have preferred such environment to the elegant clubs and general decency of life was good wine cookery and personal freedom known only to those public hostelries the tap room of the sanded P floor yet all english literature from shakespeare down to dickens rees reeks with the odor of the pothouse pot house bouse pi pittsburg dispatch |