Evening journal., 1900-12-06
SIMPLICITY AMONG
WORLDS RULERS
Mrs. TaImage Tells About
Her Trip Abroad
Says She Would Rather Live Ten
Years in America Than
Thirty Elsewhere

was asked me TOT puDucdllOn. lOu
have had abundant opportunity this
Summer Of studying royalty in Europe.
What do you think of it in comparison
with republican simplicity AS this
question has come to me the third
time, / proceed to answer it, though
somewhat reluctantly.
Yes, we have had an opportunity of
seeing the inside Of palaces, and COM
muning with princely and imperial
households, such as has seldom been
granted to persons unofficial. The pub
licatiOn of my husbands sermons in
all the languages Of Europe for many
years, seemed to open every door we
might wish to enter. And the first re-
mark desire to make, in reply to the
question as to the contrast between
republican simplicity and royal man
ners. is that there is no contrast at all.
The higher in station the more unpre-
tending the parsonage. 1t is the people
who are afraid Of losing their place,
or who are struggling for something
higher, that take on airs. The higher
the prince or princess, the emperor OF
empress, the more unconventional. Re
publican simplicity is no more marked
than royal simplicity.
While the "show-rooms' of palaces
may be bejeweled and richly uphol-
stored, and embarked with lustrous
statuary. and aglow with masterpieces
Of painting. tie -livlng rooms" OF Eu-
ropeln potcntates are for the most
part as plGin as the rooms OF people
ordinarily prosperous. While the tour
ist, catalogue IN hand is permitted to
pass through sleeplng-apartme
which were once occupied by some
Marie Antoinette. or Napoleon, OF
Maria Teresa, and the pillows OF the
couch and the canopy are ablaze with
splendor, for the most part the sleep
ing-apartments are as unpretending as
a hundred homes in the same city OF
Berlin. or Vienna. on st. Petersburg.
or Copenhagen. W=ile the banquet Of
a king or queen might easily swamp
what we would call many thousands
OF dollars. and the CLEAN Of the chalice.
and the fash OF the plate are some
thing to be remembered for lifetime,
the ordinary breakfast or luncheon OF
dinner of a palace is as plain as or
binary cutlery, and tsble-cloth, and
ice-pitcher can make IT, The breakfast
room at Stockholm where King Oscar
and his queen sit, morning after morn
ing is probably as simple as the break
fast-room OF many OF those who read
this sketch. When Emperor Francis
Joseph invites any one to dine with
him at Vienna. he sometimes apollo
gizes for the plainness of the meal.
Mr.. Gladstone, who was in some re-
spects a king. called the repast tc
which he invited my husband at Ha-
warden "a few snacks."
The pomp of royalty is seen on great
occasions. but no persons, however
highly born, can always walk on stills
The vast expense Of princely and inn
perial households is in the support OF
official attendants. who must be ready
to respond at the first call, though that
call may not come more than once Q
year, or once in five years. Hundreds
of horses must be ready though some
of them may never be harnessed for
service except at a royal marriage, 9
coronation. or an imperial Obsequy
and those occasions are very far apart
The conversation Of these people b
surprisingly familiar. The empress OF
pressed to me the preference she hat
for the Chinese above the Japanese
She said THE japanese may pretend
to be friendly, but they stab you in
the dark" She cannot forget that
when Nicholas. now her husband. wal
travelling in Japan. he received a ruf
fan stroke that felled him senseless
and that now, when the Emperor is ex
cited or overworked. that Japanes,
wound Of many years ago still disturb
him.
The crown prince OF Denmark il
style aud language that VIC are fam
ilisr with in our own homes, said 4
us Come, let me show You M
garden You will find il as quiet a
though it. we're many miles from
human habitation. though only iv
miles from Copenhagen Witt
what simplicity the dowager empress
0f Russia showed us her pictures an
asked us about where we had been an
invited MS TO come again on the NOR
row. Simplicity reigns in all the hig
places we were permitted to visit.
But one must 90 abroad in order {
fully appreciate home life in Americ.
eNAN hA0AN AaNlDN It0Ul~ III Ul
country than in any other land Grsa
palaces and royal families. hOweye
Kind and benevolent and exemplar,
imply multitude of people with nl
enough TO eat or wear OF shelter then
had rather live ten years in Americ
than thirty in any other countr'
While there is no contrast between RI
publican simplicity and royal manner
ihore is a contrast. wide and awful. b
tween our cOuntry-where every hea
thy and Industrious man can make
comfortable living-and monarchi
lands where poverty is Il
common inheritance Of the ne
pie. Thus much have learn,
from my iourneyings this Summer
the capitals of Europe
ELEANOR n. TALMAGE.
supper Was a Success
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