The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-30
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AN AMERICAN GIRL WON AN
,o,eNcE WITH GLADSTONE.

law did get an interview with Mr..
,,ore? | didn't get it. merely
"A Il is easier to pass through
['Slo's eve than TO interview celebre-
[ in England. The whole trend of
[,ion is against the practice.
Eow Mr.. Gladstone neither rides a
[,cle nor horse. He drives placid
in low carriage well manned by
Ltors Fate seemed against me-
a olways wanted to see Mr.. Glad
% Int the days of his public life are
L. and he lives 200 miles from Lon
|, In nv ardor 1 pleaded for a letter
|.h an earl and a countess who rank
IOnc his closest friends. They answer
! FL frankly: 1--WE are more than sor-
! n refuse A few years ago we might
70 yentured, but Mr.. Gladstone's
IN age, increasing weakness and deaf
{ must prevent us. He no longer sees
ana save relatives or old friends"
.Wby don't you try Mrs. Gladstone?"
kasted society woman of London.
might manage SO that you could
4 sec him for q moment.
81 / tried Mrs. Gladstone. 1 told her
1 object, my desire. the long way l
come, the journey was willing
N TO make if l could have but the
{pfest interview with her husband.
answer came, but from their daugh-
Mrs Drew. 1t was the letter of a
". kindly and courteously worded-
4 il refused. The hundreds of similar
puests which were constantly being
Sde-the great age of her father, his
Sakness, and the supreme necessity for
made it imperative that they
lid decline all such applications.
1Sme ambitions, however, are hard
kill. 1t was no longer possible to
k an interview, but would see Ha-
(rden. So took the train for Chester
ueerest, quaintest old city in Europe.
ere was a train, but that was lost
hunting for red roses. Why red
y n you ask. Only because red is the
RKal color, and roosevelt, one has
hitions about such things. There Is
a florist shop in Chester. Over in
market there were numerous flower
this, but these were devoted either to
81 festive Gala and tuberose in funeral
baths or else to the graceful dahlia.
Kidd not require pallid cross or a
In of flowers that looked as though
Eed out of wood, declined to buy.
tThen you will have to wire over the
yphones to the nursery, grunted
of the women. After two hours OF
TENT waiting I got about a dozen
III and evil red buildings, eked out
Ia weird fern. This was the bou-
mi had ordered. There was no help
1t. I rented an unwieldly great BIZ
e, that was left in the shop because
ody else would have it, tied the de-
liable little box of flowers on the
IDLE bar, trusted my long skirts to a
es of we'll meaning but weak kneed
W pins and creaked dismally off.
Per one threads the picturesque
D6ts of Chester the roads are fiat.
bn the trees became thicker, and soon
Drned in at a lodge gate, which
oner informed me was the approach
Hawarden castle--open to the public,
was the beginning of the park and
Interest. Near by is gate which
bright into a still smoother park
bediately adjacent to the castle
bse gray battlemented towers are
visible, rising lichen colored from
deep green of the setting. Hawarder
stately pile, real castle.
BON begin to wonder how am tt
in. The postern gate looks frownine
~ 3evere and the front wall too hlgf
limb Inside the courtyard and tt
right of the castle proper appears tt
large gray stone house, overrur
b ivy, and in the vine protected gar
back of this number of small boy'
playing. stand outside that posterr
\and ring. There is no answer. no
dch as an echo, so l try shouting u
small boys. At length one hears ant
ries to the fence.
Are ye COON on businessT' he de
Ids cautiously
shake my brown paper parcel a
and assert that have something
kave for Mr.. Gladstone.
Shen tn bell doan't ring, an Tn
~ 90 eroond through the little gate
ben by the big red ones, he say
sidles through to show me.
Md for goodness sake who are a
little boys?" l ask.
Iaw, we belong to Mrs. Gladstone
Image, an we live here, is IL
ry solving reply 4,
this time / am actually up to u
& porte cochere. ! can hear the ru
of leaves as the gardener SWEEP
d from the gravel walk, but no al
comes to my persistent ring ii
/ think is another door. 1t prov
merely long French window al
e no zeal for the role OF burglar.
81 the gardener. He advises me TO
and keep ON ringing. Even tn
ce fails to be good after ten mi
exercise.
b, ignominy of ignominy, shall
n.