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Show NO DAINTY DISHES SERVED "Coarse Fare" All That la Offered to Diner3 Who Celebrate the Birth-day Birth-day of Samuel Johnson. An unusual celebration Is the dinner din-ner tn honor of Dr. Samuel Johnson, most distinguished English writer of Ihe eighteenth century, given for many years on the anniversary of bis birth at Litchfield, where he was horn In 1709. Literary men from all over England Eng-land nssemble at the banquet and the menu Is always the mine the "coarse fare" beloved hy the author. Americans would call It a square meal with nil the trimmings, foe tho dishes specified are beefsteak pudding with kidneys, linunch of mutton, oysters oys-ters and mushrooms, apple pie with cream and toasted cheese, ide and punch, to be followed by a dish of strong tobacco and a church-warden pipe for each surviving guest. This Is strong meat for a strong man and a Litchfield Johnson dinner Is always a "stag" affair. The house In St. Mary's square 'where Johnson was born Is now a museum atvl library of rare first editions of "Husseins," the "Adventurer." the dictionary, "Ita'n-hli-r" and Johnson's political tracts and poetical works, as well as about in different editions of Iloswell's 'Life." |