Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1911 — Beau Brummell and the Brewer. [ARTICLE]

Beau Brummell and the Brewer.

Brooks’ club in London, whose dignity seems to have been offended by its association with paper bag cookery, was not always the ultra-respect-able and quintessential superior place it now professes to be, In spite of the story that dining there was like dining at a duke’s with the duke lying dead upstairs.

In the days that were earlier It was ft great place for gaming for high stakes and many anecdotes attsst the kind of company that was kept there. For Instance, when "Beau” Brummell had won large sums from Alderman Combe the, brewer, he patronizingly said that he would never drink any other porter but his opponent’s, whereupon the alderman, whose temper seems to have been lost with his mousy, retorted. “I wish every other blackguard in England would tell me the nms. w