The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-16


! cal designs, showing people with pecu-
lar enlargements for which I presume
tney are not to blame, and sweet little
nude boys with piano legs.
Descending to the second court, one
VIII see over the gateway on the west
side a clock nearly 400 years old,
though the works have been replaced
0y later ones. The kings staircase is
on h southeast side of the colonade
and just west of the escapade. The
stairway leads to the state apartments,
Gne throneroom, the gudfur ~-tst, the
kings bed chambers, etc. There are
also twenty nine picture galleries, l
believe. A great many of the pictures
are portraits and should have been
done by L4ndseer or some other good
animal painter. Most of the men look
as though they were suffering from
approximation and the savage scowl of
royalty shows ever and anon a tyran-
meal character utterly without COM
passion.
Of course there are some historical
pictures and some Biblical scenes,
among them being a graphic chief do
over representing Joseph excusing him.
self to Potiphar's wife in order to catch
the last boat for Staten Island.
Another picture, enlarged from a
kodak. / judge, represents Adam and
Eve In the Garden of Eden. The figure
on the right in this group is Eve, as I
learned from an attendant. Adam is
on the left-one cannot tell by the
clothes which is which. One has just
peeled a large twenty-ounce pippin and
has thrown the peeling over her
shoulder to sex what letter it makes.
Adam seems worried about the ser
pent, which hangs near him in a tree,
n n can see that our ancestor is
trying to remember where his serpent
antidote is so that he can go and lay
his hand right on it if anything should
happen.
One cannot be impressed by this
picture, the picture of those two single
handed parents Of the human race.
With no experience at all, green and
countrifed as all get out, raw and un-
lettered, yet called suddenly forward
and asked to become the parents of all
mankind, white, black, red and yellow
Think Of it'll Who could not shudder
at the very ideaH 1t is a mighty solemn
thing to be a parent ven whore ones
child is of same color as ones self; but,
alb, stop and think over for a moment
what it must be to have the doctor
bring with him a Monaghan baby, or
a little red brother, or a fifteenth
amendment.
I do not wonder that Adam strokes
his whiskers thoughtfully and wishes
that asa forefather he might be allowed
a vacation. Ewes face is not so easily
read, as she has partially turned to see
about the apple peeling on the ground.
Both Adam and Eve have a fine COM
plexion and considerable of it.
would say Hampton Court place is
now occupied only by a number of the
very poor of the nobility who are un-
able to pay rent and are by the kind
ness of the queen q%uarteTed here. Left
with nothing but their empty titles
now, these noble paupers boldly put on
their door plates the only possession
they have, and ever and anon n sees
a bell pull or q knocker under which
is engraved in big letters the Earl of
Barleycorn, the Duke of Lower San
dusky or Lady Eleanor Malloy-Tidd.
Here, where for centuries the king
and his retinue dWelt in ma~gnificence
and these sunny courts echoed with
silvery laughter, where the table OF
the royal master could be heard even
at night, groaning under it's weight OF
good things to eat, including paste and
sweets, porrige, joints, soap in the'ole,
shandygaf and everything that heart
could wish, now at dawn n sees the
duke of Lower Sandusky light up his
gasoline stove and with raspberry tea
andR smoked herring begin the long,
long weary day. Or, he sees lady
Eleanor Malloy- Tidd come down stairs
furtively, chop up an old dry goods
box in the saloon, carry the slivers up
stairs to her massive but bleak apart
ments and then return for the tin
dipper of milk left on the royal stoop
by the milkman.
Then at evening when the old palace
was all alight and the swish and rattle
of heavily gtarched petticoats waA
heard on the kings staircase, what q
contrast it was with the present when,
! IN tha nhoatIu and dcaorkod court we