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Show I A MINOR HISTORICAL EVENT Some one had said that Bryan had buried himself in obscurity, but the insuppreasible Nebraskan insists on reappearing and being heard. Yesterday the orator stood m what once was a popular drinking saloon in Washington, and. asking the newspaper men with htm to "have something," proceeded to relate how he happened to serve, grape juice at dinners he gave while in Wilson's cabinet. Having informed Presidenl Wilson In would nol serve wines at official fune- tions, he told him to use his own judgment At the first dinner to foreign diplomats, grape juice was in the usual wine glass with an other glftss filled with Apollinaris water. H "We did not intend to serve grape juice as a substitute," ex- H plained Mr. Bryan. ".Mrs. Bryan thought that a second glass filled ! with some colored fluid would help as a table decoration and grape i juice wss selected to appear with the water glass, which filled the ' H vacant space heretofore occupied by a host of wine ami cordial , glasses. And that is the true grape juice story, boys. In serving t ' grape iuiee, there was no intention to accentuate the absence of 1 i intoxicants But n had thai effed ami I was net sorry.'.1 Bryan, looking back, finds no small degree of satisfaction in ! having disregarded a custom in the upholding of a strong sentiment At the time, the secretary of Btate was the object of much ridicule, but he now rejoices thai he had the courage of his conviction |