The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1877-03-17
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! Is III close proximity TO the "Hise OF the
Mahometan Power in India. Through
the equerrys room, the next Of the suite,
is reached the second library, whiGhmight
appropriately bear the name Of the "Sera-
pis room" for /, is full of the belongings
Of His Royal Highness during his voyag-
ings in the big troop-ship, and the familiar
feathers in gold between the initials A.
Il. meet the eye everywhere. .i.
This room opens into the vestibule of
the garden entrance, which by reason of
its proximity to the drawing,rooms is
always used on ball.nights. From the
main corridor stretching to the great stair
case there open on the right the principal
reception-rooms but before these are reach.
ed there is passed the Princes private
morning-room, family room pure and
simple. The admixture of feminine and
masculine tastes, of which this pretty room
is more than any other in the house, an
exemplar, speaks eloquently Of lives blend
ed in an accord of close-knit domesticity.
The walls, of cool neutral tint, arc partly
decorated with rare china aud pottery,
partly pannelled with crayon pictures of
deer-stalking episodes in the highlands by
the most celebrated English painters Of
our day, a large windowed projection,
which is in part a lounge, in part bou-
dcir and in part a writing-room, is half
partitioned off from the rest of the apart
ment by screen devoted to display of
family photographs. A truss of tree. mig.
nonette, with lilies of the valley blossom
ing around the bushy stem. half hides the
panel on which Leightons brush has de.
picted The Bringing the Deer Home !"
the spreading skin of huge tiger shot by
the Prince in India lies on a quilt car
pet Of patchwork, which was tribute of
loving respect to the Princess from the
children of one Of the schools she finds time
to foster with so much personal attention.
From this room door opens into the
ante-room of the great drawing room; a
pretty little apartment in French gray,
having for its chief ornament large pic.
ture of the Emperor of Russia and the
Prince driving together in a sledge, whose
three horses, in a furious gallop, are fore
shortened with great skill and fine effect.
The pincipal drawing.room, like all the
rooms on this side of the house, looks into
the park across the fOwer.beds, water and
rockery to where the antlered red deer
arc browsing in the beech.glades. 1t is
a room of fine proportions, of whose walls
the prevalent tint is a pale.salmon color;
aud its fixed decorations arc studiously
simple consisting merely Of a few mirrors
placed panelwise, some floral mouldings, a
painted ceiling and single groupe of stat
uary. Nine. Jerichau's Bathing Girls"
embrace each other on pedestal, from
around the base of which flowers and
blossoming exotic shrubs rear the gleam-
ing glories of their bloom and the quieter
hues Of their foliage against the snow-pale
marble The sweet scent Of spring-violets
nesting among moss perfumes the air, and
there are flowers everywhere indeed the
whole house is floral bower, for the Prin-
cess is passionately fond Of flowers, and
literally lives among them. A door-win-
dow of the drawing-room ''giyes" on a
small-domed conservatory projecting from
the garden front of the house. Here the
arched fronds of the palms form a sombre
glory over the pedestal, upon which Jeri-
chau,s two white marble children press lip
to lip within an encircing thicket of flow
ers, in which the orange Of cuphorbia,
the pale rose of the calanthe, the wax like
trusses of the white hyacyntb, the gleam-
ing scartel of the poinsetia, the blushing
purple of the primula and the fair pale
sweetness Of the lily of the valley, at once
vie and blend with each other. En- suite
with the drawing.room is the dining-room
warm-tiuted genial-lookiDg room, sug-
gestiye of comfort in its every item A
great bow.window expands from the cen,
trc of its front, whence the light streams
in upon Landseer's "Mare and Foal'
above the oaken sideboard Over the
fireplace, where the logs are blazing on the
wide open hearth, is a full length portrait
Of the Prince in the blue.and-gold of the
Tenth Hussars. "Unscr Fritz" and his
Princess--whose well.won empire over the
German heart has never weakened her love
for her native land-hank Landseer's chef
deupre on either side, and life-size portrait
Of the Princcsses Alice aud Louisa hang
on either side of the door opening from
the dnwing.room t|'i...t q
From the dining groom the way leads
through corridor of weapons where
the "white arms" of all ages are arranged
in glass fronted cabinets on the walls, to
the billiard-room, whose walls are bright,
ened byLeeche's inimitablc hunting sketch
es, and whose three-side windows, set in
ivy, look out on the Italian gardens on
the site of the old fish ponds, and SO
athwarg the park to the church The an
nexed smoking room is the ante-chamber
to the long vista of the bowling-alley,
lighted both from sides and roof, with
raised seats at the upper end, whence
ladies may look down on the tournament
of their squircs. Beyond the bowling.
alley is little room over which Macdon-
aid reigns supreme--the gun-room, in
whose glass fixed cupboards are arranged
for shooting irons in bewildering number
and variety
The chief adornmept Of the main stair
case is fine portrait in oils Of the Prin.
cess in riding.dress Immediately at the
top of the stairs door opens to the right
into the school-room, where MIR. Dalton's
two young pupils spend stated number
Of hours per day over their lessons a
light, pleasant room, 10 which flowers and
photographs compete for elbow-room with
school-books and story.books The i'm
pulse is to pause here in this sketchy
description OF the interior of Sandriugham
Hall, lest the going further SAVIOR Of
presumptuous intrusiyeness. Yet it is
hard to shun reference to that beautiful
room on the same floor, with its pale sal
on-colored and French gray walls its
pink and lace hangings round the deep
bay of the window its medley of old
china, photographs, water colors,, dwarf
palms, howersi its thousand aud Que
pretty kniok.knacks; its singing birds /;
anl with the iindescribable, yet felt, al.
though unseen, presence of delicate and
refined womanhood which pervades tho