Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-10

house. There the ausWeiS was pro-
duced. The rights of public drunken
ness were in nowise limited by it
Therefore the roisterers were told to
GO And they spent the next hour in
trying to catch other grave Sentries
and take their guns away and STICK
cigarettes in their hair and do other
foolishness. The sentries would not
bother them. They had passed that
supreme test under military law. They
had an auSWeiS.
Sometimes one is rather ashamed of
being i'll possession of an answers. We
for example. visited the Palace OF
Laeken-which is the new, underwear
negie-like home of King Albert OF
Brussels and his queen-because we
had one We excused the visit to our
selves by admitting that if King Albert
We're at home We would not likely be
admitted And we did want to see that
palace. IL had swans and peacockS ana
Japanese pagoda and a wonderful
conservatory In the front yard. INSIDE
it had two bathrooms. only TWO. one
for the royal couple and another ioi
some other royal couple VINO might ne
their guests. We concluded that III
Europe no one below the rank of king
ever batheS.
Visit to King Albert's Palace.
We strun. alone-three officers and
nine reporters and some German
guards and three orderles-iu Il long.
dusty, gaping string. We had ridden
something like $50 I<ilometers that day.
always ut the highest rate of speed
that could be coaxed out of large Ger
man cars, and We hadn't even had a
chance to brush off our faces W" sIfted
dust as We walked through these mar
BILE halls. The Impression remaining
a al
as follows:
That the palace architect had learned
his job by designing county court
houses,
That whoever bought the furniture
mad. an awful mess of it. 1t proha bly,
was costly. but it wasn't good, Ana it
covered every period, from the John }.
Conroy renaissance Of early 1870" TO
Louis Philippe:
There was one original and two cop
les of The Temptation of st. An
thony" in the guest chambers;
The kings library consisted wholly
of French novels and encyclopedias:
The Germans must polish every inch
of the whole place twice a day.
Bed Chamber a Puzzle.
We were puzzled and We are still
puzzled by one thing. In Il room
which interveneS between the king s
Offices and library and his private gym
naslum, where he used to work out
every morning on Il variety of appll-
anCes, was a small white enameled iron
bedstead. The walls We're covered by
costly paintings. some of which We're
good and some of which were not. The
presumption at once arose that III the
hurried DAYS which preceded the Ger
man invasion King Albert had this bed
put up for his temporary use Then.
when he was too tired to stay longer
at his desk. he would turn in within
call BY that means he avoided dis
turUjns the queen he royal bed
chamber contained two ornate but
commonplace wooden twin bedsteads
But # this We're the case
How account for the fact that the
royal gym adjoinS this room and not
the roya! bed chamber on the upper
ioorn
If this were the kings usual sleep
ing room. WHY that cheap iron bed in
Il room that talked of cost from every
other angle?
We made inquiries, but We did not
find out. We went on-dust%. Intensely
curious and Somewh ashamed Of our
selves-to discover that the private
dressing room for visiting ROYALTY had
a double WashStaud-two holes in q
long marble shetland that the non
ROYAL bed chambers were not connected
with baths and We're equipped with the
old ia shioned toilet stand one used to
find in western hotels. wherein every
possible variety Of porcelain ever and
Dot and basin '.limmrr-d.
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