The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-09-24
IN LONDON TOWN.
"nu:.af,::AH" TAKES A PEEP AT
THE HOUSE OF cc.ii1oNe.

London Dwellings AID Ti,cir Di:,=.j5. Stay
Notwithstanding Through Giltled
Lattice ut English statcsmen-Duef-
esscs in the Park-Royalty.
Liverpool never holds the passenger long,
and it was just as grimy and noisy as it was
eight years ago, when ate a last matutinal
muffin and marmalade there and sailed away
to the westward and home. One finds
changes in London however, in that same
time, and the changes are not in all cases
agreeable Ones old landladies, and in them
old landmarks, are swept away, and to find
comfortable quarters is now the greatest diff
ficulty Every American beIates the build
ing plan of London houses, and in q Search
for rooms for expected friends at this
crowded season Ihaye seen more dingy, stuffy,
shabby interiors than I could have believed
were hidden behind the walls of city streets.
Al America seems to have rushed to Eu-
rope this year, and from every place on the
continent comes the same word that the Uni
ted States have never been SO largely repre-
sented before. AT Ghliigs American exchange
ON the Strand there isa mass meeting of COM
patriots every day and all day long, and they
stand in line before the little postofiice on the
great mail days. The success of this exchange
makes one wonder however the Americans
got along without it before Mr.. Gillig set up
the flags and eagle and bade his countrymen
welcome. The exchange is the general center
and meeting place of Americans, and conn
prises everything within its walls There is q
bank on one floor, postoffiee on another;
there are reading rooms where you find the
latest papers on file, ladies' parlor, q tour
lists bureau, where you can buy excursion
tickets to the end of the earth, and accom-
panying guidebooks, and department Of
ocean service, where you arrange with every
transatlantic line.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
had look at the house of commons oA
Thursday, the day before it was prorogued
That brilliant young Irish member, Thomas
Power OConnOr, and one of his shamrock
colleagues were the ones to guarantee that
the group of Mr.. Gillig's friends had no dyna.
mite about them and to effect our entrance
Since the explosion in Westminster hall MI
one is allowed to enter that wing of tho
houses of parliament unless accompanied by
member, and the dynamiters succeeded only
in rt;iliing some fine old stained glass win.
dows, dcpriving sightseers of O great pleas
ure, and giving the few who do gain entrancs'
uncomfortable sensations during all of tho
time that they are present. Accustomed to
the broad corridors, the open galleries and the
free swing of our own Capitol and houses OF
congress- the precautions and passes and
countersigns and checks needed to carry US
through seemed almost farcical
We were separated as in Quaker meet
ing, the men of the party being marched of
and shown into one gallery, and the ladieA
led up an endless lot of back stairs and into o
box about twelve feet square, whence we
pecred through gilded lattice at the mighty
house of commons far below. The members
sit on leather-covered benches around what
would hardly make an ordinary county court
room at home. Half of them had their hats
set squarely down on their heads and over
their ears, in a good conservative style, and
the speaker, whom we could not see from our
screened gallery, was described as something
11asgniffrenG III u big wie, and gown.T Ths
speaker of the house of commons cannot leave
his seat, they say during sessions, and has to
sit there from beginning to end. How would
our busy, restless speakers of the house Of
representatives at Washington stand that,
with 10 chance to slip down to the restau-
rant, or out to committee room, or away
), during sessions!
DUCHESSEs IN THE PARK,
As to the duchesses in the park we saw
them all thc other morning when there was
a meet of the Coaching club, and twenty
four-in- n-lts!S went round and round the
drives All the world was out, and it was
such BRIGHT, sunny June morning as only
blcsses tie height of the London season.
About all the visiting Americans were to be
met il the park, and their comments on
British bcau.,y and the average English
woman It ,;te il dress would not have edited
the j. =; era t women in the endless string of
open carriages The beauties could not have
been out that day, nor any ones best gowns.
Mo- o.! s,:nms1 that rode by could compare,
in fl :, o.. toilet, with a certain Baltimore
girl that stool By the rail and watched the
spcctacI-. The Princess of Wales and her
daughters were there, and the carriage full
of royal hiss,,hncsses bowed graciously this
way and TINT il recognition of the uncovered
heads around them. .a-. -..-
The pfilcess as well as her daughters,
were simply dressed in black gowns, for all
the court l.; i'll mourning, for the mad, sad
brother of Bavaria, and dress is regulated by
edict, and the largest dry goods stores make
the most profuse displays of black and white,
gray and purple goods 1t startles the
American greatly to see the princess looking
quite as young as her three great grown
daughters and Alexandria is far more at
tractiyc to any eyes than those three fair,
fresh=coniplexioned, heayy=lnoking young
girls with her. The three young daughters
are strangely like the youthful portraits of
Queen Victoria, and the dull, bland, heavy
locking eyes that distinguish the royal grand
mother make the family resemblance I'M
nistakable, e,-sRu Ruhan.al' in Globe=D Democrat.