The morning call., 1891-06-22
LONDON'S CRYSTAL PALACE.
A Little American Girl Describes til
Wonders She Saw There.

Little American Girl Describes the
Wonders She Saw There.
Our party consisted of six-my mother,
sister and myself, Mrs. S., her boy Charlie
and his aunt At II o'clock we took the
train for Sydenhanl, a suburb of London,
where this wonderful palace is situated.
We arrived there at l o'clock. When we
stepped out Of the palace station fairy land
greeted our eyes. This is the place for the
children, and is almost worthy enough to
take trip across the "millpoDd" to see it
alone. The grounds around this wonderful
fairy palace are beautiful-fOuutains min
iature lakes, with bridges over them,
switchback, maze and toboggan slide.
"The Switchback frStp' was the cry of
the younger members of our party as they
ran toward that imposing structure. "TuD-
pence a ride; quick, before the car starts j.
sang out the man who was ringing the bell.
We ran up the steps, each with two large
English pennies in our hands. Ready!
cried the man. We hastily dropped our
pennies n the ticket office, opened the gate
aud seated ourselves in the Car. A push, a
start, and our breath was taken away by
the rapidity Of the motion.
Down againI "Now, let's 60 to the maze"
said Ceclly, ana off we ran, leaving our
mothers to walk on behind. Oh, the mis-
takes we made, but what fun, running in
dllu Oul VI lbC WluuiHS pdtucS lIiCCtlus
bewildeTed people and now and then getting
pricked with the hawthorne hedge. I'VE
ought 10 have one in Washington" said /.
"Il we have park large enough we must
have one," said Ceciy We found our way
to the center, and after resting a bit and
watching the people looking l9ngingly aud
wondering how ever we gOtin wO started TO
find our way ont, which is almost rs mys-
tifying as trying to hunt for the center il
one does not know the way. We then
st crted for lunch at the palace.
Have you any ice cream?' we asked
the waiter. Yes. we ave some," and he
brings us the most horrid stuff we ever
tasted, but You may be sure we did not
make much of it. and very soon eff on
hunt for soda-water. We got it! But we
don't want it againl AS we had had some
thing substantial before we asked for ice
cream, We r0ved through the interior of
this great palace. 1t would take book to
describe the wonders we saw, and | will
only "pass on" through the Egyptian
court. the beautiful picture gallery, the
lovely fountains and palm trees, the ele-
pbants performance, the ponies and clowns,
the attractive booths, tha penny fortune
tellers, and all the old curi0sities and imits-
tive rooms. on to the open air. The fire.
works will begin at eight. 1t is now half
past seven. and Charlie. our only escort
aged thilteen, SAYS he will take us girls to
the tob0ggan slide while his mother secures
SiXnence each.
The entrance to the tob0ggan slide Is
"tuppence." There are beautiful colored
lights everywhere, which makes it almost as
light as day. We get on our tobOggan and "as
quick as n wink 20 down the long wooden
slide, bump in ut the end and nearly tumble
off, but we are up again ready for another
ride. We meet Mr. Gibbs, friend, who
offers to take us down, but it is too late, for
off we gol
How IoveIyl Oh! how do they make it
like that!' we and many others exclaim,
when seated looking at those wonderful fire
works.
"Oh, there are all the scenes from Jack
the Giant-Klller," said |. ''Yes, but see the
snake chasing the butterfly" We find our
selves breathlessly interested to see II that
terrible fiery snake catches the pretty but
Ierfly, but they all die out in minute.
Then followed the whistling rockets,
Niagara Falls, living fireworks bv the half
dozen and frecrackers. 1t took over an
hour for this magnificent display of fire.
works.
Then We went to see pretty little pam
tomme entitled "The Witches Haunt"
That lasted about two hours and a half,
during which l witnessed the most beauti-
full dancing | have yet seen.
OH how nice it was after the sights we
had seen to be in little compartment all
to ourselves in the train. We played all the
English and American games we could,
and reached London happy with the con-
Vlction that we had seen one Of her grandest
sights. Washington Herald.