Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-18
A Queens Cottage.

IN A CORNER OF KEW OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
OF THE TIME OF GEORGE III.
The queen having lent her cottage Mt Kew
for o bazaar, to be held for the bcnefit of Kew
church, the London News gives this descrip-
ton Oft. The cottage is hidden away in a
very remote corner of the extensive grounds
attached to Kew gardcns-shut in by wire
fence, and pretty we'll concealed amid forest
trees and huge thickets OF rhcdodendrons.
and are beginning TO look rather secdy and
ragged 1t Is amid these forest trees and
rhUodendron beds that workmen have been
for the past day or two busily engaged i'm
erecting tents and marques, and Id i. hot
summers afternoon u more agreeable resort
Myde park Sernes TIE Queens nne Sriyat Of
grounds here are very extensive, and one NAV
wander about them ut ordinary times i'm y soil
back woods Of America Much OF the timber
Is very fine, and the strawberries and thick
s!s are Ssfy Seem a
or other grand walks about them APP
parently, but they are all overgrown, and
enjoyed here under u sense of desertion and
seclusion TO be experienced In very few spots
around London. The grounds stretch right
away to the river Patil,, o on the southwest Of
tue Duke Of NortkumSeriand. O"''' '''' scat o'
The cottage Is exactly what 1t processes to be
IA cottage and nothing more. It Is under.
stood to have been built by George III, adj
ought to have history, ana probably has il ono
somehow seems to have overlooked this Sc,
Guided little establishment, within whose un-
pretending walls, no doubt, dishes of tea-Or
tay, as 1t may have been called when ROYALTY
slipped 1t thcre-would occasionally have helped
out court intrigucs in almost any Reign b0t that
of the simpie-bCarted monarch who now and
then resnrted thithcr. Only such a king as
George III. would have built sdch u place. It is
little brick cottage, with u straw-thatched
roofand diamond paned windows. It is clad in
ivy, and it's door handles are rustic pieces Of
stick, and Its doors can never have been any.
thing but wood unadOrned. Their iron work
Is now all eaten with rust, and the wood itself
warped and split by the weather until they
look more like the rustic doors of n trans.
pon,ine theatcr than tho veritabie doors OF u
queens cottage II was never intended for
Living in. 1t Is place merely for lunchiug or
drinking ten In. There arc two rooms one uI
and one down. and there are iean-tOs on each
side, comprising just the offices necessary for
providing tea or luncheon. The down Hairs
soom Is noored with brick tiles, has u quaint
ittle white marble maytelpicce, and an irth fem
oer, bought perhaps originally tor huif crown.
z leer Old.fashiOned iron arn-chalrs mOdelied
Oh the rustic" idea, stand round tho walls
WI ich are colored slightly and hung ali over
with engravings Of Hogarths paintings Hence
II II known rs the Hosarth room. There IRE
fade old-fa1htQned chintz curtains ut the win.
dows both up stairs and down. and though IL Is
to be presumed II has not stood .1useas IN tioes
from the days when George Ill delighted TO rr.
side u Kew, 1t might have done 8 for anythine
TO ID contrary in ~ appearance. II has boon
shut up for many years, and the gravel walks
abO 1t II have been OvergrOwn with weeds until
they are hardly distinguishable.