The Washington herald., 1913-11-23

see why it couldn't be put up any
where abroad with perfect confidence
that it would stay up through one ad-
ministration, anyhow"
"A nightmare OF that kind erected
in the capital city of friendly power
would be Just cause for war TO the
knife said Mr.. Brief.
well. | have an alternative propo-
sition," said the Idiot, and ! am not
sure that it isn't far better than the
other. Why not erect a Statue of Lib
erty in every capital abroad, an exact
reproduction OF that monumental at
fair in New York Harbor, and let our
Ambassadors live in them2 They tell
me there's as much room inside Lib
erty's skirts as there is in any ordi-
nary ten-story apartment house, and
there is no reason why it should not
be utilized. My suggestion would be
to have all the Offices OF the Embassies
in the pedestals. and let the Ambas-
sador and his family live in the over
skirt There'd be plenty of room left
higher up in the torso for guest cham
bcrs, and in the vplifted arm for
nurseries for the ambassadorial chill
dren, and the whole could be capped
with a magnificent banquet hall on the
rim OF the torch, at the base OF the
brazen flame
"A plan worthy of the gigantic in
tellect that conceived it, smiled the
Doctor. But how would you have this
thing furnished, Mr.. Idiot? Would that
be done by the Ambassadors them
selves, or would the President have to
call a special session of Congress to
tackle the job?"
81 was coming to that" said the
Idiot. 1T has occurred to me that it
would be a fine thing to have forty
eight rooms in the statue, each named
after one of our American States, and
then leave it to each State to furnish
its own room. This would lend
pleasing variety TO the inside of the
building that could hardly fail to in
terest the visitor, and would give the
foreigners very clear insight into our
resources along lines of interior deco
ration. Think of the Massachusetts
Room, for example, fine old horse
hair mahogany sofa in one corner; a
rosewood highboy off in another; an
four-poster bed project
ing out into the middle OF the room,
and blue china wash bowl and pitcher
on spindle-legged washstand near by;
and on the wall three steel engravings,
one showing John Hancock signing the
Declaration of independence, another
of Charles Sumner preaching Emanci-
patton, and the third called The Great
showing Henry Cabot
Lodge declining to go into the direct
primaries for reelection to the SEN
ate. Then the Michigan room would
be corker, lavishly filled with antique
furniture fresh from Grand Rapids,
and a bronze statuette of Gov. Pin
gree at each end of the mantelpiece for
sake, the ceiling given over
/, a symbolical painting entitled The
Confusion of Bacchus, reproducing |
the final scene of the Roosevelt trial
at Marquette last spring. Missouri's
room could be made a thing of beauty |
and a joy forever, with its lovely wall
paper showing her favorite sons, Dave
Francis and Champ Clark alternately,
separated by embossed hound dogs,
rampant, done in gilt bronze, and the
State motto, Show Me, in red, white,
md blue tiles over the fireplace. Real
y l can't imagine anything more ex-
,ressive of all-America than that
would be. Florida could take the
Palm Room; New York the rather
rigid and formal White and Gold Re- !
.eption Room; Maine as the leading
,old-water State of the Union could I
furnish the Bath Rooms; California
.ould provide a little Cafeteria affair
or a quick lunch in mission style, and