Soldan High School - Scrip Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Y + , s 6me,ERsmmrm f unrnvented the coffee house was the chref orvan of publrc oprnron and debate Every class of socrety the merchant the lawyer the Whrg the Tory the country bentleman the lrterary man each had rts favorrte coffee house T1me thou h permrts our sorournrno at just one of these notable Oatherrnb places We find ourselves at the entrance of Wrlls Coffee the spacrousness and grandeur of the reat Elrzabethan days we reach what mroht almost be called the tread mrll of En lrsh letters As you entered the room the ,creat rush was to et near the charr where Dry den sate always rn wrnter rn the cozrest corner by the fire and rn summer on the cool balcony To bow to the laureate says Macaulay to hear hrs oprnron of Racrne s traoedy was an honor rf forsooth you recerved from hrm a prnch of snuff your fame was made You heard talk of the poetrc unrtres you learned that Paradrse Lost were better wrrtten rn rhyme Then that the strll vrtal play of Venrce Preserved had not followed the rules and should rn all Justrce have been hrssed from the sta e As we turn the corner of the century the coffee houses become strll more hrghly speclalrzed Dryden dead the Krn shrp of Letters falls upon joseph Addrson and the meetrnt, place passes from Wrll s to But tons Here met Addrsons Lrttle Senate Here came to lr ht the Tattler and the Spectator Here was the laboratory of that famrlrar prose strll the desparr of all who try to rmrtate rt About three quarters of a century pass before we meet the next world famous tavern company These are the days of the famous Dr Samuel johnson To take Just a baker s dozen of the men who strll bulk larbe rn the popular memory brves us some deHn1te measure for the Oatherrnb of the Lrterary Club at the Turks Head There was breat Dr johnson hrmself There was james Boswell the standard for brogra phers for all trme There was Davrd Garrrck the breatest actor of hrs aoe and Rrchard Sherrdan and Olrver Goldsmrth the Dreatest wrrters of the comedy of manners Then Edmund Burke and Charles Fox stood pre emrnent rn oratory and state craft There was Brshop Percy who revealed the splendors of ancrent poetry There was Edward Grbbon who left the monumental Declrne and Fall of the Roman Emprre I the fields of musrc and parntrno Srr joshua Reynolds and Dr Burney stood supreme Then there was Adam Smrth who rn hrs Wealth of Natrons may be sard to have establrshed a new scrence Even the Great proconsul, Warren I-Iastrnos, lent hrs presence at trmes to balance through achrevement rn world affarrs all the theorres of hrs antagonrsts And over all ruled the great Dr Johnson But Ah, that by product of tavern lrterature, the tavern song and the dance Shades of Shakespeare, of Ben Jonson, of Sucklrng, Waller and Lovelace' Sprrrt of old Isaac Walton. of Robert Burns Forgrve me IX 1- -- -is ' M---'Qv'J2JiTr-q- f f-'rf Y fxmffivfpf' -f'f'5- -2 , A- rt C M fr Y 'ff UG' . X-E-1 ALL- L ,.,., L JE ,Q-,-LA eff' 7 T: Q ,if , . Y I Z - , v 1 v O, , - . . ' i ' b ' D u . OA . , 6 . House where the great john Dryden presides as King of Letters. From . A O, . D . Y - . on . b D ' O' O' . - ' D 7 7 li YY ll . . . , S 2 . ' v . . . . Y U . ,, . ' ' ' 44 ' vs O. D . . , D . . O. . , - . . . .. . .. -0, . . 6 OA . Op. . ! , ' O, ' v O. 1, . A .... ob . b , , - . . - I . Y Ci ' . ' U rl 5 . 5 5

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6' if SN?-.'ES5Qi5w1 ?j' that your glormous melodxes may just be ment1oned If space could be anmhllated and I should tremblmgly bevm to smg but would you Jom me? Perhaps I should Hrst chant to you that greatest of tavern songs by Walter Map m the Twelfth Century Le10h Hunt thus cleverly Enolrshes It I dev1se my days to end Jn a tavern drznkmg Mav some Chrzstzan hold for me the glass when I am shrznkzng That the Cherublm may cry when they see me slnkrng God be merczful to a soul of thzs gentleman s way of thznkrng My t1me has come to a close You who would not s1nO w1th me my tavern songs may now hsten to some beautrful muslc of Ehzabeths tlme muslc sun, and danced to 111 theatre and tavern muslc both of VOICE and mstrument Februars 9 1926 under the auspzr s of the Wednesday Club s r'1d1o houz Mzss jones broadcast thzs artzcle as is here grven f om Station K S D j fl av '-?fEff 'i' 'fsawe-E-Q-2 mmmuumuuuuJIImmllmlllllllImllllllnvlrfllllllllllvllflllltillllitllqumluzwllllmlltu D 0' x Lu, - 5- XX ,L :if A 3211. ff- r,b.,,:-fl' --.Qi-' AY-fffffc iff Vs- f -4 'Y ' ,, I K J r x , K 'fr ,,,, re- -PQY , 'L-'1'-'Q :X-f-Yfkf Y -W 53 fi 4:13, f- 2-cheer,-: - , D .V- u .U 5 2- ,, . . . . ! . . . i . . ,, . . . D . . . . . , . I . or . Z . .' , ,, l' 4 A ,, '. ' , . ' ' , r 4, '4' W, W WX, , , We ,, A L -W 'V f, 1 4: Y 5. , e . fp Cf KV, . to ' '7 x ' , , ff f 9 . ' . 1 . t ' i f V 5 Q - F? 3 E, Q5 ,,,.,. , , ,, sms-374L'L-nv--ei,-B -.A i' - i, . . ,- .-.-,,.- ,f 4 49:53 N- F