[Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the St. Louis Exposition CHAPTER XIII 12/16
The picture-room wuz specially beautiful filled as it is with treasures of French art.
And all the rooms wuz gorgeous with tapestries, elaborate carving, sculpture, painting, the most exquisite decorations of all kinds showing what a beauty and pleasure-loving race can gather about it of beauty and grandeur if it sets out to. And France shows off well also in manufactures, electricity, machinery, transportation, etc.
All together this is the best exhibit she has ever made, and she has reason to be proud on't. England makes a good show in products and processes in every Exposition building.
In the Palace of Varied Industries she gives a model of one of her charming country houses, a model indeed of comfort and luxury. Her national pavilion is built of red brick and stone and is a reproduction of the Orangery, a building two hundred years old.
It wuz Queen Ann's favorite home, and I didn't blame Ann a mite for lovin' it. As I walked through the beautiful and stately rooms I thought I would have loved to neighbor with Ann and spend some time with her. The gardens outside are so beautiful you don't want to leave 'em, shaded avenues, terraces, flower beds, yew and box shrubs trained into shapes of lions and big birds.
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