The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-13

r - EWS, News, News. Attached to name
M this word was met with all over London. It
k%S is an unfamiliar word to Americans and sug-
tGSS&&N gests only CATS Of course But the places.
little more. than alleys always showed car
riages of various descriptions and smeled strongly of
horses. that in Of time little Sherlock
Holmes deduction made it clear that news was the
English term for stables.
1t seems funny enough that horses should be
nected with anything so suggestive of cats but then
when English people Of to-day to be doing any
thing and contradictory like this only
essary to dig back two three hundred to find
cause custom, once established in England, is
like Tennyson's brook-it and forever. They
not possessed with mad desire to and
olutionize, and SO things last.
Originally in the days when hunting with falcons
the sport of kings a COOP place
OF Henry WILL the royal sport of falconry had begun
to die out and the king ordered great
stables to be built the site of the moulting of
the falcons The place had been called news" for
hundreds of and in spite of the radical change
in the use of it, the buildings housing the royal
horses were called news, too. At first the term
applied only to the royal stables, it
to mean place where carriage horses are kept Many
of the great mansions in the city have stables
the premises their carriages and horses being kept in
some news nearby The London form
little world own. They are little more
roony alleys, generally clean orderly where the
only tenants are coachmen and grooms, their wives
and families, and the horses, the of which is
their livelihood
Word From the Master of the Horse.
Royal News are open to visitors but two DAVIS
a week, and then only those have first applied
writing to the Master of the Horse for a card Of ad
mission After two three days delay, very gor-
geous affair in the envelope arrives containing
card announcing that the applicant others
are to be allowed to inspect the dwelling place the
petted horses of the king.
The Royal News in Buckingham Palace Road,
not far from Buckingham Palace ITSELF and there on
a certain day last summer, five Americans whom I
managed to scrape together, picked their way along
with me to the entrance of this royal domain spick
and span is no name for it. The spick spanness
that most of us know is riotous disorder compared
with the perfect immaculateness surrounds the
horses Of England's king.
Once within the gates, Whew! What a gorgeous
gentleman took in hand. He gray as to hair
and little "siders'; young and ruddy as to face smil-
ing and gracious in manner, and yes, evidently very,
well of the fact that he tearingy hand.
some man. His coat was of the brightest scarlet SO
bright and fresh that it might direct from
the dyers vat He spotess white breaches
and the shiniest of high black leather boots with huff
tops and dangling little tassel, such brought
light to the hearts of little twenty years so ago
much like what the of fashion wears except
it was ornamented on one side with "a smart little
cockade. ..-..
On the Kings "Bool of Visitors"
:. Reckoning the holder the precious card
Of admssIon, to the little lodge right entered
and was there suavey invited to sign my
visitors: book, together with the number of people
the guide books and by signs, servants of the
king must not accept tips, and that visitors re-
quested not to offer them. But-wel-even servants
of the king only English servants after ALL
and English servants from John oGroat's to Lands
expect tip every they turn around in ones
service. 1t is another Established Custom
the laws of the Modes and Persians thought rapidly
and several times over but simply could bring
myself to offer this resplendant parsonage the
tip purse allowed. Had offered one in keep
ing with his appearance and manner should
had enough money left to pay my way back to the
United States So kept my fingers out of my purse,
preferring to be known as lone of them Hamericans
isn't wise.'
Crossing the little courtyard, which uncrossable
this little ceremony lodge is over we
taken. in tow by a whose m
to be groom quite evidently the parsonage in
scarlet looked really truly gentleman in mas
querade. Our guide looked if he just come out
Of hath t11h harn ShO andfh hand Of
he exqusitely immaculate. His coat and trou
the dress suit cut of the fashion, the
only difference being that the waistcoat bright
low with hairline of black, and that his tall
bore the inevitable, perky cockade which marks
coachman footman groom.
The Clean, Clean Court.
The low. two-story stone buildings sur