Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-29

hit. 1 think the theayter has educated.
them, standing for the pit you know. In
ten minutes an Irish crowd would be
fighting"
A young Engiishman who wears a sof,
wooden cap and bicycle tweeds listens at
t%entively, and then says TO his companions.
Hes right about that. jolly right you
know. ] was al %Southbend when the fleet
was there and a single policeman kept a
crowd Of 5000 for forty minutes at one OF
the gates and there wasn't a protest. not
a man or suffragette tried to pawse. Jolly
sort, ] say, too"
One Of the guards stops another young
chap who is smoking a pipe Justify and
asks in a stage whisper which has rather
a tartar brogue about IL:
Are you from G~lasgy7" and again, to
the imperturbable nod that the taeiturn
visitor bestows. continues;
Il ken 1t by the pe-coo-llar accent II
was the young Teddy with you that gave
the lo-cal-i-tee AVA"
Young leddies always 81 everything
AVA" finally states the taciturn one as
he follows his party Beauchamp tower
way, exchanging a stealthy nod with his
confessor.
Gun Carriages Explained.
Miss Know 1t All stops in front OF the
plain wooden structure which is placarded
Gun carriage which carried the remains
Of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Vic
toria, and, turning to her party, says
triumphantly;
There, that's the third one we've seen,
one in Dublin and one at Windsor. I'll be-
lleve the story they tell now that there's
a skull of Cromwell on exhibition in one
place when he was a man and another
smaller skull that he wore when he was a
boy
Madam" interrupts the panied and
perturbed voice of a very courtly beef
eater, whose enormous size, which is not
hidden in the least by the peculiar cut Of
his costume. prevents his looking as ma
iestic as he would like. Madam, 1 am
pleased to inform you that you did see
another gun carriage at Dublin and an
other at Windsor. You will allow me to
explainT'
He gives the huge brass buckle that
d~esignates his waist line "a rack to port
and continues:
The queen died. If you remember, on
the Isle Of Wight, and from Osborne to
NAAN bbaN 1AAt wac vi OlN VI
when the remains reached Paddington they
were carried across London to Waterloo on
another. and when they reached Windsor
it was necessary to AVE still another. so
you see there are three gun carriages ex-
tant at the present moment of ply in
cumbency. Thank you"
The thank you was a sixpence.
stones Might Burn.
Another beefeater with a sense OF humor
holds a warning finger to a cigarette smok-
ing tourist.
Sorry. cawnt allow It, sir. Might set
fire to one of the paving stones or a dun
geon WALL
The tourist thanks him for the warning
as he extinguishes the cause of alarm
Never thought of that. Suppose these
old stones are jolly well combustible."
Indeed they are, sir; they're only thirty
feet thick here, SIR. Never can tell what
damage a thirty-foot thick stone might dc
If it caught fire.
A mar passes with two small children
hanging to either knee Of his trousers
He carries another one aloft and is accom-.
panied by his wife, behind whom tags q
fourth at the end of a Strengthened arm
The man is turning the leaves of his
Baedeker with a wet thumb and his face
is a map of wrinkles. The wife's shriI
voice demands: Where's Whistler
Mother, Pc
my dear" you hear the man say, with
an added line of worry criss crossing hi:
noble brow. THAT was at the Luxem.
bourg."
"oh, so IT was. We've been there
haven't WEI"
The man changes the child and Baedeke
vets the other thumb and says: yes
my dear" patiently.
His children are being educated!
Others are, too. There are hundreds o
them, all ages and sizes, and before tn,
tour OF the tower is over another one O
the beefeaters confesses to you that per
sOnally they make him tired.
of a Beefeater.
IT'S this way. Sometimes there's
whole school of 'em, and they've read Vi
about the Tower, and they know NOR
than 1 ever did or expect to or want to
and they ask me all sorts of questions
and I'm expected to answer 'em right off
II l don't get the figures right they law
at me. Then the little ones about 5 or
are just as bad. they get tired and ar
afraid OF the dungeons.
t Il don't see why children have to com
: to the Tower. Foreigners. too. Since tn
intint cordial was established by the kim
5 lots of French people come here. Neve
used to see 'em. 1 have my troubles
E Thank YOU"
The thank you Is for the sixpence.
( A courier with a +. c. party is saying
. as he points with a knowing thumb:
9TH was the window where q hescape
the night berore q was be'eaded."
80 he did escape?" asks a P. c
! breathless with the thrill of recalled LAS
: tory.
but I don't see" says another, how
: he escaped he could have -"
The voice Of the courier, 1--WE will no,
proceed to the room where Lady Jan
, Grey, for twelve days a queen, was i'm
/, prisoned with her young husband"
, Sources of Information.
/, In front Of the cases where are show
, the delicate and charming methods Of OF
: tanning information and stimulating tn
memory which were the mode in the Mic
die Ages. among them the thumb screw
a the rack and other inquisitorial torturei
: "a row of women hover with glued eve
r and breathless lips. Just why his partiC
ulaf part Of the Tower should attract thel
. 1t would need a course in psychology I