The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-08
n CALIFORNIAN
ABROAD.
By Thomas Fitch
THE TOWER or LONDON
THE TOWER or LONDON

from the rear, having in view an as
sumption of ease, not destined. how
/ ever, to be employed on this occasion,
/ she lightly touched the elbow, indica-
| ing at the same moment her desire to
possess herself of catalogue. But the
only sound 1 heard in response was a
very shrfli .o-o-o!'' proceeding from
herself, which sound. however. seemed
to fail upon the ears of that decorous
and wefl-dressed assemblage of wax
kings and authors, so that I was in
stant1y led to reflect upon the peculiar
excellence OF their breeding, exhibited
under trying circumstances, such as
these. The figure so rudely, ii unremit-
tingly accosted. proved to be model
OF the late Charles Dickens, and from
that moment until the doors OF the
exhibition gallery closed behind Us,
nothing in human guise gained the
shattered confidence of the lady. More
than once, that stricken woman was
addressed by Some visitor near her side,
but on each occasion she was seen to
turn sorrowfuiIy away, saying 1T Is
another wax model rugged with some
mechanical speaking apparatus. come
away
There is a shrine. and model Of Ma
poleon III in the uniform of Marshal
Of France, taken after death, and to
say it was true to life would be a mis-
homer, would it not? At least it is
faithful likeness, and effective in all
its appointments. IF Madame Tussaud
We're an English woman, We might
guess why the model of every American
was caricature upon the original.
George Washington is made to look like
cross between a bull dog and
Methodist Elder, and he is appropriate
ly placed behind the entrance door, so
that his simulcranium is the last thing
an EngIishman beholds on his exit, as
it was the last thing he wished to be-
hold anywhere in General Washington's
day. General Grant in a group of three.
viz. with Abraham Lincoln and Ans
drew Johnson, looks like schoolboy
delinquent in the item of lessons. Lin
coin is better, but bad enough, while
johnson is radiant with a strange beau
ty. Henry NJ. Stanley, the African dis
coverer. is there quite true to life.
I remember at a banquet given in
Washington to Henry NJ. Stanley, when
that gentleman, in response to a toast
was defending DIR. Livingston from the
accusation of having forgotten his fam
African Princess.
CDR. Livingston, said Stanley, with
great earnestness, would never have
touched an African Princess.
.'Save in the way of Kindness inter-
rupted graceless Sam Cox. and the
gravity of the situation was at an end.
The royal families are generally we'll
represented by excellent artists, at
AFo sfs.1 -xo Of =,
particular angle, it, is easy TO fancy
'.oneself hemmed by the erInine." with
Gladstone and Disraeli in the back
ground. Here we find Sir Walter Scott.
with infantile brow and soft. genial, nat
ural smile, the last face to. take on
moods of heroism or slaughter. There
are few such faces as this-forever
yielding, interpreting, revealing, yet
with all its mobility philosophical, not
ing mutable things, as the Trossachs
note the shifting shadows upon Loeb Lo-
mond or Katrine.
Lord Macaulay, with his rich color
and dark eyes, his figure slightly cor
pulent, though erect and manly, looks
like one risen to execute the unyield- |
ing mandate of the genius of history,
and any observer having studied the |
lower face OF England's most brilliant
essayist might easily presume that
when he proposed to write the history. /
etc." a power was set in motion only /
to be stayed by an unseen hand. Ali I
how potent the icy chain that links
mortality to another life, in locking the
wheels and breaking back the possi-i
bilities of complete earth glory.
independently of the figures, we find
! host of curiosities in the way of rel
cs- Certainly a man must be an in
crate to confess himself weary in the
very presence of Napoleon's shirt, and
tooth brush, and SO, standing upon one
foot. / reverently gazed upon the coun-
-erpane used upon the campbell at st. =
Helena, and stained with his blood!
n italics. laughed over Queen Vic
.oria's first doll, a veritable fashion,
I'd rag baby, stuffed with bran, in cali
20 frock, and mixed eyes and brows. /
eaned very heavily upon the carriage
n which Napoleon was driven to the
ield of Waterloo, a heavy, creaky, lunl-si
,ering affair, not al all such a one IS
General Grant used to spin down the
Beach Road in at Long Branch. But {
leroism signalizes itself never in any /;
wo instances the same, demanding fast {
lorses and cigars on the one hand, and {
and martydom on the 6
ther. Such are the apparent incongru- |
ties of destiny.
To be successfully infamous. one i
hould have been famous, and as we c
ook upon the rather brutal features OF '
he ignorant and obese claimant to &
be Ticheborne baronetcy and estates, Y
re could wish he HAD a history behind c
i'm To the fart that lady TichphOrue Il
and declared him as sir Rog- t
r, her own son, up to the last mo- {
lent when she laid upon the floor and
led of heart disease in the room adj
Dining our own at the hotel in Man
hester Street, every inmate OF the 7
ouse bears testimony. Surely his gem
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