The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-19

WINDSOR, ENGLAND, June %. I'VE
Biiou Inn" is the legend he who runs
may read" in blue letters on a white
ground on a swinging sign before one of
the tall, old-fasf Toned houses OF Windsor,
almost in the shadow of Windsor Castle.
II the day is warm and sunny one, and
the broad low windows are open and
bright with scarlet geraniums, the tempta-
ton to enter is very great indeed. Every
thing Is SO scrupulously clean, the house
front, the door with it's polished knocker,
the curtains that swell a little like the
sails of a ship. Upon entering, the cool
est air blows in from the sheltered garden
behind the house; little white Moorish
arches separate the big room from the
hall, and everything repeats the colors of
the little swinging sign. Everything is
white and blue as piece of Delft ware;'
the walls are pale blue with white lines
the curtains are tied with blue, on the CEN
ter of each immaculate little table are
white daisies in blue glass. 1t is a jewel
OF an inn, long may it wave and prospect
The hostess-for the question of pay
ment is sordid detail, to be arranged
with much delicacy and humor-js her.
self floating vision of blue and white.
Her bodice is EN- broldered with blue ferns ;
she wears blue satin stock around her
neck; the apron that hutters about her
is so fine that it is only bit of coquetry
such as court belle might add as a touch
of character in role assumed for night
only. With bit Of courtplaster under
one eye and another on the chin, the land
lady of the Biiou Inn might have posed
for Romney or Gainsborough.
As rule the eager traveller arrives in
Windsor at 10 in the morning, rushes
madly through the castle. drives to Eton
for an hour and returns for the late after
noon train to London with weary satisfac-
ton. And yet "the dwelling on the wind
ing shore" offers so much that is pictur-
esque ana interesting:
The castle itself is shown by a guide. He
has grown old in service His hair has
fallen from the top of his head, but il
grows luxuriantly under his chin; he
wears black coat, so tightly buttoned II
suggests that he is afraid of having his in
formation escape from him unawares. He
also is melancholy; he wears low collar
with two points, and he has two teeth in a
mouth which must once have contained q
double number, it Is so impressively wide
and empty. We are arranged like chain.
gang and the old gentlemen leads us like
keeper. He draws one long breath as be
enters each room and exactly exhausts il
in information as he leaves. A bobby
brings up the rear and chases any weak
minded admirer Of a picture caught "or
The fly, as it were, TO the foreground. Sc
that the pearls dropping from the aged
lips may not be lost. Here is a sample o.
The pearls:
1.-THE pictures in this room represent
,Ter the door Fillup II of Spain, OF
:he right King Hennery VII, on the lef
The oily Family; the ceiling represent,
queen Catteryne proceedin' to the Tenn
pie of Virtue, drawn by swans"
This room is called the Rubens room
IN account of the name of the artist al
painted the pictures"
The old gentlemen drops word or TIVE
aere and there, SO that his communities
ions reach US in broken fragments.