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Show Kept Model Country Inn. Mrs. Mary Leo, who recently died at White Waltham, England, was tho oldest puhllc-hoiiHo landlady In tho country, for she wns 00 years of ago. Tho Bee Hive, which she had superintended super-intended for more than half a century, wns believed to bo tho best-conducted houso In England, for no complaint was ever mado ngalnst It. Over tho fireplace In tho barroom stands tho notlco: "No swearing or foul language lan-guage permitted In this room or Indecent In-decent songs nllowed. to bo sung. Anyone Any-one Infringing tho above will bo expelled." ex-pelled." And often tho picturesque old lady, with her cheerful unwrinklcd tace would walk Into tho room on Sunday evenings, bearing her old Bible, Bi-ble, and read the Scriptures to nn nudlenco that listened with respect to her explanations and comments. |