Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-25

\ words: 'sOver the county of Kent, nc
snake fences, no telegraph poles, hedges
| overruu with flowers, are six great public
| schools
He then took US to Winchester, the oldest
town of England, which is situated on the
beautiful River Lea First we 90 down
| High street on either side are high walls,
two yards thick, behind which are old
| houses. some OF which have stood for centu-
ries. and all are literally covered with
vines. Walking down this street we soon
come to the Hall OF Princes, in which are
statues of all the kings and queens of Eng
land, wearing the very same costumes they
wore in life.
The Black Prince dressed in his armor,
and Queen Elizabeth in 4 white satin riding
dress, sparkling with gold and green, the
same she wore at the execution of Mary,
Queen of Scots.
He again brings rs to the school of
Winchester with its grand architecture,
which Ruskin defines as San epic poem in
architecture"
Tennyson, as "a dream in stone.r
DIR. Bigsby says he misses more than any
thing else in America 'sPrimroses and the
church bells, not the exaggerated cow-beH
I hear in the United StatesIbut the grand
old bells centuries old.''
In England they have bells for every
thing with quaint designs put there by the
monks of old.
We are now taken to the great masters
house. First, we go across the large play
ground, and come to the great round Nor
man tower. Here, on the old oaken door,
hangs bell older than the town of VIM
chester.
We pull the bell and little page appears,
covered with buttons, OF whom Mark Twain
said when he saw the numerous buttons
'sPoor boy, how did you do it 2" We go on
across the grand old garden, which DR..
Bigsby says I'VE will compare with gar
den in Chicago at the home of a man that
built $50, 600 house in three years out of a
salary of $4,000 year, with the mathe-
matically cut star on the right and the twin
of it on the left, with little tree in the CEN
ter of each symmetrically cut, that asked
if they were combed and brushed every day.
Not such garden, but one as though from
the hand of God.''
We come to the masters house-an old
house, ZOO years old, built of stone, with
diamond-shaped windows; towering gables
and low chimueys. The whole is covered
with roses and vines so thick that when a
On the porch DR.. Bigsby told US that
Chaucer, Spencer and Shakespeare sat.
We are ushered into the library. Around
the walls are the books, all bound in mo-
rocco with the coat of arms of the school on
each volume.
IHere are many quaint FcllcS IN bulS
room. A shield on which great men who
visit the school write their names.
We will look into the dining ROOM or re-
fectory, as it is there called. The long ta-
bles are covered with Queen Anne covers.
At the beginning of each meal thirty-two
choiristers march in, dressed in white robes,
chanting the ''Te Deum" Thesesare little
boys about nine years of age, selected as
the sweetest singers of England.
DR.. Bigsby closed by saying, 'sEton is the
great school of England. But Arnold of
Rugby is the great master. You can see
the great marble. tomb with flowers care
lessly scattered over in fine carving. And
the text from which the great master
preached his last sermon, the grain with
ereth, the flowers fadeth, but the word of
God iveth forever" Respectfully,
WILLIE DEvALL,
CARRIE DICKSON.
Hardin College.