The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-06-09

OlItSb IS very LlOutSL DullOlIlS down town at the end of a blind street The curtains were all drawn at Lady Astor's residence at No St. James Square. Her town residence looks like a very plain New York Apartment House.
 The Prince of Wales lives at the very ancient and modest St. James Palace at Stable Yard-so named after an old stable. There is Rotten Row where the aristo- crats live. Quaint Petticoat Lane, Pail Mall, Threadneedle Street. Bond Street and Oxford are the best shopping streets. 'Ye Olde Curiosity Shop" immortalized by Dickens, looked like an old friend, being exactly like the pictures we so often see of it.
 Newspaper Row
 At 45 Fleet Street, often called Newspaper Row We dined at "Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese" where celebrities from the world over go to worship at the shrine of Dr. Samuel Johnson. His old wooden desk chair and the first dictionary of the English language, TITS, two volumes, are exhibited there in glass case Sawdust covers the scrubbed white floors, and an old wine cellar with che dust of ages 1 is an interesting feature of this unusual place. There is also an exhibit of autographed long-stem- med pipes smoked by Lord Kirk enhead, Sir Conan Doyle, Asquith, Jo Chamberlain, Sir Edwin Gray, Lord Haldane, Lord Rosebury At Lancaster House, which, since the war, has been converted into a Museum, were the before and after ascension coronation robes, two for each one, of Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandria, Queen Mary and also the Kings elaborate coronation robes and replica of the Kings crowns. The trains on the gowns were long, wide and heavily de- corated and lay like rug when spread out. The wedding gowns of the Queens were also on dis play. Queen Victoria's was the most beautiful. The little golden cradle in which Queen Victoria rocked her children is most beau tiful. The National Gallery has a collection of pictures from the Dutch, Italian, Flemish, Spanish and other foreign schools together with a beautiful British collection. Michael Angelo, painted but three pictures, all unfinished, the Ma tional Gallery of London owns two of these and they were interesting All children would enjoy seeing the original of Sir Joshua Reynolds Little Innocence"
 School Children
 Speaking of children, I was greatly impressed with the school children I happened to meet on the London Streets. The boys looked very nice in their little dark blue jockey caps-blue serge cults with bare knees and short socks. They bore themselves like gentle men. Of course they all carry school bags. The little girls were quietly dressed in little blue serge dresses, jackets to match and plain round beaver hats with brims they too, carried school bags.
 We saw London Tower, London Bridge, the mile and one-half long tunnel beneath the Thames River, Cleopatra Needle, the Statue of Lincoln. the Statue of Washing ton, the Bust of Longfellow in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey, busy Trafalgar Square, the Bank of England. White Hall Chatham House, former residence of Prime Ministers Pitt, Stanley and Gladstone, now the Institute of National Affairs. Even the shiny brass knockers and bright brass door plates look inviting and those 10000 double deck bussesl Where do they go? I must return to London to find out.
 We are due in Bergen, Norway II May l2"