Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1918 — Beau Brummell Story. [ARTICLE]

Beau Brummell Story.

In Gen. Sir George Higginson’s “Sev-enty-One Years of a Guardsman’s Life.” there is a good story of Bean BrummelL The author had it from the late Lord Lyndhurst, who knew him welL Someone, who no doubt wished to disconcert him by allusion to his parentage, asked in the presence of some of his admirers: * “Pray, Mr. Brummell, how are your good father and mother?” "Thank you,” was the reply, “quite well when I left them half an hour ago; but by this time they have probably cut their throats!” “Good. heavens!” exclaimed several of the bystanders, “you must be speaking in joke." ' “Not at all,” he said with a quiet tone of appreciation of the motives of his questioner; “they were eating peas with their knives.”