The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-28

teresting round of the hall of kings.
and viewed royalty bleared and SCARED
and knock-kneed by time and ill-usage,
we assembled the dreary staircase and
found ourselves in the drearier apart
ments of his Majesty Charles Second
The chairs Of state. fashioned with
high wooden backs, with only a dim
hint OF upholstery, looked uneasy and
forbidding. A bedstead, a sofa, three
arm chairs and some tapestry hang
ings comprise the furniture of this
audience chamber, whence we proceed
to Lord Darnley's rooms in the ancient
portion of the building. Here we find
nothing Of interest, except specimens OF
tapestries representing great many
cherubs, with very few fig leaves,
standing upon their heads, or other
wise amusing themselves among the
vines. Then we have a few pictures,
one of Admirable Crichton, quite notice.
able for its clear well-preserv4d ap-
pearance. and another of Charles Sec
ond in armor. There is also a piece Of
tapestry in one of these rooms, repre-
senting the engagements between the
contending claimants, for the empire
of the world. with the flaming cross in
the Heavens given TO the great Con-
stantine. The shadow of the nysteri-
Gus cross is reflected upon the shields
and standards of Contantine's troops,
making a very effective and dramatic
conception. The battle was said to have
been fought under the walls of Rome
consequently it transpired some time
since.
Lord Darnley's room is scantily fur
nished, containing at the present writ
ing only some old chairs and cabinet
of some unpretentious sort. The dress
ing room is commodious and looks out
upon the grounds of the palace; thence
by what is known as Queen Mary's
private stair we ascend to the most in
teresting suite of apartments in Eu-
rope, the rooms of Mary, Queen of
Scots.
1 attribute many of Mary's errors to
her meagre and almost squalid sur
roundings. How could she be expect
ed to be wise and moral in small,
meanly furnished rooms, with low CELL
ings, small windows and creaky floors.
1 could rent anywhere in Edinburgh
larger and more comfortable apart
ments than Mary's for sixty dollars a
month. The walls were hung with
tapestry, it is true. but she had neither
gas nor water, nor carpets nor electric
lights, nor automatic bells, nor tele-
phone, nor anything else to inspire her
to good deeds.
Here is the velvet curtained bed of
Charles First, afterwards occupied by
his unlucky descendant Prince Charles,
and subsequently by the Duke of Cum
berland, who won the fight at Culloden.
Here is where Queen Mary discussed
theology with John Knox.
In Mary's bedroom adjoining is a
couch with decayed hangings of green
and crimson damask. and here is a
small door, partly concealed by tap
estry opening on the secret stair which
led to Darnley's apartments, the door
to which secret stair has bolt on
Darnley's side only. 1t was up this
stair that Darnley ard Ruthven and
the other conspirators assembled to kill
David Riccio, the Queens private Soc
rotary. David, as every student of his
tory knows, was at supper with her
Majesty and few friends in a little
room adjoining, and the assassins stab
bed him in the Queens presence, and
then dragged him through her bedroom
and audience chamber down stairs,
stabbing him as they went, and the
place is shown to this day where his
blood stained the floor.
Aside from its historical associations, J
Hollywood palace is not an interesting
building. It is small and mean, and to
call it palace is a mis-application of
English. The Chapel adjoining is a
cheerful ruin and served as place of
sepulture for many of the mobiles and
celebrities of Scotland.
From Hollywood we went to the Medi-
cal College, and viewed fra gnents OF
our ancestors in pickle jars and glass
cases. The janitor, a canny old Scot,
called our attention to a skeleton of a
man near the door with thirteen ribs,
the only thirteen ribbed skeleton in
Great Britain
1T must have been a skeleton of
ADAM remarked I. taken before the
deep sleep fell upon him."
The old party's eye twinkled '.Hoot
mon," said he. Il haze bean married for
forty year. and thirteenth rib is nae
a bod thing to haze"
The dining room of the "BaImoral"
is more deliberately furnished and
more exquisitely and appropriately fur
nished than anything we have yet en-
eountered in this part of the world.
But, like every other hotel on this side
Of the world its administration is ex-
tremely economical. At any of our
drst-class American hotels. you win
read the names of half a hundred
dishes on the bill of fare. and a pro-
fusion of everything which you order
will be placed before you. Here, how
ever, there are not to exceed a dozen
dishes. and but a small quantity or
each. Here they calculate so closely.
hat having provided dinner for twelve
guests. if they chance to have fifteen,
here will not be sufficient of each dish
20 go round
We have been to the Scottish Long
Branch to-wit: Portobello. Some
Years 100 critic on high art writ