Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-12-14
E}'ashlngton Standard
HOMES OF ROYALTY.
kINGLY SPLENDOR is ONLY
FOR SHOW

Mrs T1lmaes's Opinion of Royalty from Per
sonaI Observation Living Rooms arc Plain
and Kings and Queens are Familiar in Con-
>sr>aton Prefers Ten Years in America to
80 Years IN Europe.
Nh. I. Dewitt Talmagc, who re-
gently returned from Europe on the
Oceanic, has given the Christian Her
all 4 most interesting story oi her
"Summcr Amid Royal Palaces"
les" she says, when asked Tor
comparison OF royal splendor and Re-
publican simplicity, eve have had an
opportunity OF seeing the inside OF
palaces and communing with princely
and imperial households, such as has
seldom been granted TO persons unof-
fetal. The publication OF my hus-
band, sermons in all the languages OF
Europe for many years seemed to
open every door we might wish to en-
t-r. And the first remark ! desire to
make in reply to the question as to
the contrast between Republican sim.
plicity and royal manners, is that
there is no contrast at all. The
higher in station the more unpretend-
ing the parsonage. 1t is the people
who are afraid Of losing their place, or
who are struggling for something
higher, that take on airs.
"Whilc the 'showrooms' OF palaces
may be bejewelled and richly uphol-
stored and embarked with lustrous
statuary, and aglow with master
pieces of painting, the living rooms
OF European potentates are for the
most part as plain as the rooms Of
people ordinarily prosperous. While
the banquet of King or Queen
might easily swamp what we would
call many thousands of dollars, and
the CLEAN of the chalice and the
flash of the plate are something to be
remembered for a lifetime, the ordi-
nary breakfast or luncheon or dinner
OF palace is as plain as ordinary cut
lery and tablecloth and ice pitcher
can make it.
"The breakfast room at Stockholm,
where King Oscar and his Queen sit,
morning after morning, is probably as
simple as the breakfast room of many
of those who read this sketch. When
Emperor Francis Joseph invites any
one to dine with him at Vienna he
sometimes apologies for the plainness
OF the meal. Mr.. Gladstone, who was
in some respects King, called the
repast to which he invited my hus.
band at Hawarden "a few snacks.'
1.-THE conversation of these people
is surprisingly familiar. The Empress
of Russia, without any hesitation, ex.
pressed to me the preference she had
for the Chinese above the japanese.
She said: 'The Japanese may pre-
tend to be friendly, but they stab you
in the dark
"The Crown Prince of Denmark, in
style and language that we are ia
miliar with in our homes, said to US !:
Come, let me show you into my den,
and then took US through his study.
And the Crown Princess said to me
Come, let me show you my garden.
You will find it as quiet as though il
were many miles from human habita.
ton, though only five miles from Co.
penhagen.' With what simplicity
the Dowager Empress of Russia
showed us her pictures, and asked IL:
about where we had been, and invited
us to come again on the morrow!
"But one must go abroad in order
to fully appreciate home life in
America. There are more happy PEG.
pie in our country than in any other
land. Great palaces and royal fami.
lies, however kind and benevolent and
exemplary, imply.a multitude of PEG.
pie with not enough to eat or wear OF
shelter them. / had rather live ten
years in America than thirty in any
other country.
"While there is no contrast between
republican simplicity and royal man
ners, there is contrast, wide and aw
full, between our country where
every healthy and industrious mar
can make comfortable living-and
monarchial lands, where poverty is
the common inheritance of the peo-
pie. This much have l learned from
my journeyings this summer in the
capitals of Europe"