The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-05
SATURDAY DECEMBER 5, 1903.

lapel that contains the tomb Queen Elizabeth The
nroncle of the time tells the story of the discovery in
ese words: I'm July 1874, they were taking away
le stairs going from the Kings Lodging to the chapel
the White Tower, the workmen discovered, ten
eet deep in the ground, some small human bones in
OGDEN chest: which bones being nicely examined.
ere found to have been those of boys the OF
8, the other Of II years of age. There is abso-
tie proof Of course that these pitful remains were
hose of the i-fated princes but the people at the
were satisfied that they Were and no one has since
ad the hardihood to attempt to dislodge them from
heir place of honor.
They say, believe, that the stairway is Norman.
ertainly it is halfway tower four
eet square and put winding stairway in it, and you
ave good idea Of what climbing these stairs is like
is merry -and up -and-round and-round
nd-round- up without until just stops and
egins to wonder if it is a joke
The space is not wide enough for two people to
ass and the steps, being spiral, foothold what
yer except at the outer edges When the Keep was
st built they thought all people had to think at
hat time, first of how best to keep out and
then how to mislead him if he once broke in So
they put their interior sairways in all sorts of
81 odd places and then made this other steep, mar
Fl staircase, where the short they
J. make one dizzy. and SO sharp that a climbing
Fl enemy could not tell what might lie inch
III round from his
=f But when patience has almost given the
81 fight, the end comes-and end that if there
81 were nothing more to be seen, would more than
FL for the dizzy climb It is dark gloomy, bare,
Fl cold and small chapel. This does not sound at
== all interesting but look at the huge round pill
81 lars. Look at the beautiful rounded arches. Z
81 Look at the and lines everywhere. This
81 is the chapel of St John one of the last speci-
==1 of pure Norman architecture that still re-
81 mains in England. In the time of its builder.
Fl William the Conqueror, it was warm With hang
RI ings; it's air sweet with incense; it's altars
81 glowed dimly thru the smoky lights of many
81 candles; its bare floor strewn with rushes,
f upon which knelt the worshipers, while from the
I'll balcony along sde William himself and the
!. members of his immediate family looked down
81 thru the low arches they joined in the serv-
aI ices.
e There two things ought to know
~ before you go to Europe. That is, if you expect
to visit these ancient places of historic interest
You must know bit about architecture, and you
~ ought to know something about the life and
toms of the period of the historic events which
"a specially interest you. Architecture may seem
Ioi unnteresting you read about it, but once on
= the other side, where many of the palaces and
churches of great antiquity, simply can
not get away from the architecture. 1t talks to
you right along, and it is your misfortune If you
little that what it says is a LAM
guage cannot understand 1t is not enough to know
merely facts of the historic incident Every
thing will much more if you happen to know
something Of the "color the lfe the dress, the Gus
toms of the time. st. Johns chapel taken for just
what looks to-day without reference to the archi-
lecture it's fittings in the days when 1t the chapel