The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-22
FORGOT HER MARRIED NAME
EFFECT ON AN AMERICAN OF A
VISIT TO The LOUVRE
Bound to See the Lords, She Gains Access
to the Upper House of Parliament and
Observes the Prince of Wales in Rather
Careless Attitude and Apparent Neglect
Some Impressions.
Washington Post. !

/ official of the treasury department has
/ just returned from flying trip TO Europe.
| Her name will not be divulged. but the
/ husband is also an ex-congressInan from a
western state, and before he was a mem
Der OF congress he was a minister of the
| gospel host of people know the lady,
/ who during her Washington career, has
| been noted for her artistic dressing.
She had only twenty-one days on the
other side, but che proceeded to ''see
| things" in a fashion that made the staid
| wife of the u. 5. commercial agent
/ with whom she travelled pale with awe
! and green with envy. Mrs. Official saw
/ Paris. particularly the Louvre She could
not be lured from it, and insisted on
| spending the entire day without eating or
| drinking, while she studied pictures and
catalogues. Rubens, Velssquez. Angeles
| Da NIncis made Der head swim when she
went to bed that night. Three or
| four hours later she woke up. Oh,
such a headache But what was her
name? Who was her husband? What
was his position, his tlte2 Not one of
! these questions could she answer. The
/ head seen med likely to burst; the harder
| she thought the farther away was her
! husbands name and his title. 1t seemed
| as If her senses were going from her. If
| she could not think of his name she knew
she should certainly slip her brain. But
! 1t wouldn't come. Then she remembered
/ she had written him letter that day and
] flew to her portfolio. Thank heaven,
/ there it was and there was the name.
She knew who she was once more, but
] the title a sign of it was on the adj
/ dress. She might have been the wife of
| the grand potentate OF the Rising sun for
/ all she knew and then at O'Clock in
/ the morning Mrs Official sat down on the
| floor OF that pension and wept because
/ she could not recall her husbands title
/ Every painter from Rubens down TO
! Whistler ran through her head She
/ could name hem over backwar and for
/ ward, but her husbands title was lost
/ The affair grew desperate. and ii was not
| till she recalled pamphlet in her trunk
! that she saw a ray of hope. Down on her
knees she went. Every blessed thing was
| flung out of the trunk on the floor. The
/ book was at the bottom, and there the
| good woman found, on the front page the
lost title. She surieked with rapture till
| the inmates of the adjoining room came
| to inquire the cause Of her distr SIS.
This is not fiction. 1t is actual fact, and
| it was all the elect of the Louvre.
! But London was the scene OF her chief
| d'Uuvres. Now Mrs. Official had always
had a laundering 10 see the English parlia-
ment in session BY the time she regis
/ tered in London the hankering had be-
come a full-fedged American determine
/ ton.
With the ladies of the party in her
retinue che invaded first the corridor of
| the house OF commons There was an
/ NJ. =. who had been a member from her
/ own state In the American congress. He
! had amassed a fortune. gone to England,
/ taken up with the country and secured an
election to the house of commons. Mrs.
! Official sought his aid. The American
! British NJ. p had exhausted his number
/ of ladies' admissions but he thought he
| bad friend who could loan a ticket. But
| no. that went no farther, and according to
| the latest English edicts for the conduct
/ of parliament no ticket. no woman adj
mitted. and only q cer.aiE number on GER
| tain occasion at that
Mrs. Oficial wasn't discouraged.
well, said she, 81 really didn't care
much about that. What I want to see is
the house of lords. How do YOU get
there"
The English NJ. P. looked stupefied for
/ a couple of minutes. The house of
lords! Why, I've never been there my
| self"
That don't make any difference. You
can il you want to, can't you? Which
way do you get there?"
/ The VI. F. couldn't see the use of know
| ing how to get there. but he showed her
long white marble corridor, away down
at the end of which were guards. formid-
able looking gentlemen, supposed to
daunt anything except lord or a statue.
| Now" said tie American, "you go
down there and say. There is an Ameri-
can lady here whose husband is an official
| of the United States; that he ranks ony
! second to the president. and that If she
should 20 back ami not have been ad-
/ mitted 20 see parliament thew would feel
/ very bad and would be offended"
! The NJ. p. reared at the instruction and
said: 81 say that?"
Mrs. Official stopped the laugh on the
third round with, Eyes, you go right along
and say that BE sure to say my husband
| is next to the president"
! The member OF congress in his surprise
! obeyad and in a moment beckoned down
the corridor. The gorgeous guard swung
! open the door. Mrs. Official sailed through
| and In another moment found herself
/ locked up IN box about four feet square
that reached exactly to her chin. wherein
her chief sensation was that the animals
must have been cleared out for her accom-
mediation. She saw a man reading some
thing interpreted with My Lord, my
| Lord, every two lines.
| A doorkeeper. with a figure like Her
cules. more gold lace than brigadier gen.
eral, and gold medals enough to serve a
breakfast on, came up to her pen
DO you see that big man right across
there" pointing to seats hardly. That's
| the prince of Wales"
She SAYS be looked bored TO death, wore
his hat on tine bald spot of his head, and
had elevated his legs over the bench in
front OF him. The lords" did not seem
to mind him at all, and did not give any
longer performance than usual for his
benefit. 1t was short sitting. The lords
! filed out so near to the American in
the box that she could have poked them
with an umbrella, but not one lifted his
eyes.
Then the guard told her she was onlv
the third or fourth woman who had ever
had the honor TO be admitted to that box
on the floor, but Mrs. Official didn't tell
him in return who her husband was