The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-10
Is, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1908.

with pendants every surface covered with the most
elaborate carving, fretwork. seemed to
be robbed of it's weight by cunning sculptor
and an airiness and decacy given to it that like
the Dozen each enshrning the statue of saint There
was the CLINT of color in banners and the glorious
stained glass windows.
breathed Josepha Henry Wis chapel! The wonder
of the world dreamed that anything in stone
could be so exquisite, dainty, fairyike. Why,
there isn't square inch anywhere that is not carved
Come m" said Tom my bully things
Josepha up the easy flight of steps in state
~ way that air Of soemnity to her movements.
1t all exquisite, fairly unearthly in it's beauty
that she could hardly believe herself there in the flesh
She moved quietly and cautiously in the
dark Tom went at once to the wooden stalls where,
in oden times, when the abbey in possession
of the monks they had alternately and stood dur
ing the services Without suggestion of irreverence,
and at the time, with appearance being
Whemed by the the associations of anything
about him, he turned the seat displaying the wide
carved shelf which the monks leaned during the
long offices of the church Pattng the carving affec
tonatey, he said in his irrepressible way:
did you anything to that?" And
he lifted his hand displaying the carved face beneath
even Josephas solemn face relaxed. For that was
the Jolest grinning face that could be imagined Not
"straight grin, either. The mouth twisted COM
cally to one side and there suspicion of wink
in On either side another face and Jo-
sepha quite scandaized to that displayed
haunting tongue stuck saucy It seemed out Of
keeping with the beauty and the nature of the place
The boys went the rounds of the stalls with zest de-
ghtedly turning the seats what designs would
appear. There were faces, malicious, sad and, gay.
There beasts and birds of quaint and terrible
aspect flowers and fruits and foliage every sort of
design in fact that could be imagined, and all treated
in the grotesque STYLE peculiar to these misereres as
they called.
The Henry Wis chapel is divided into five
tiny chapels, "acoves' would call them, each bear
ing monuments to royal relatives of and to
few royal favorites while there is hardly fagstone
in the body of the chapel which does mark the tomb
of some king member of the royal house. There
James T., George III. and Queen Caroline and long
line of their children and grandchildren Elizabeth Clay
pool the best loved daughter of the Great Protector,
Cromwell, whose death is said to have grieved her
father to his This is the only body of the Cron-
well faction buried in the abbey which left undis
turbed when Charles II. into his In the
ter, the most imposing feature the floor of the
chapel is the tomb of the founder Henry VII and Ez
abeth, his wife, protected by what time
rich and most imposing of bronze sadly de-
faced At their head, between them and the re
mains of beautiful altar which destroyed when
the abbey sacked at the beginning of the civil
lies their grandson, Edward w. the of
Henry VIII. and Jane Seymour, whose untimely death
plunged England into the errors of the reign of Bloody
But in comparison with the glory of the architec-
ure Of the chapel these tombs had little interest for
the poem in stone which was built SO many centuries
and which still is Of the marves of the world
When Tom and Tate had finished the survey of the
stalls, had gone in the little chapes
mented upon the strange and wonderful monuments
they contained they slipped out leaving Josepha still
lost in WONDER her still turned to the glores of
the stone above her head.
Suddenly Josepha felt that something hap
pening behind her. She turned in apprehension, and
there in the door stood Tom, his face crimson with
pressed speech AS he caught her eye his arms began
to like those of windmill, in his efforts
to beckon in a way that would impress her with the
necessity for Immediate response. Josepha followed
without Tom led her down few steps, then
turned sharply to the left under low ARCH and then
few steps again into the south aisle the
chapel where he made straight for the largest and
most imposing tomb in the center CYL on plan).
"See there! See there!" said, hoarsey, point
ing to the inscription.
And Josepha looked, she read the of Mary,
Queen Scots. She gave startled look the eigy
lying stifly the top and there the familiar
features of Mary topped by the pointed Golf which she
historic. Josepha walked round and round
the tomb, viewing the face from every angle and
ling TO he
original. Pictures pictures she had Mary
in travels about England, but statue that
showed her nodded features like this The tomb is
sadly the forefngers little fingers
praying hands gone but the face has escaped
material damage except the mellowng that time gives
all things. r. ~
II wish had not any of her pctures-nor her
either, said Josepha discontentedly "She isn't
beautiful I thought her. See that bump