. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . living rooms of European potentates are for the most part asplain as the rooms of people ordinarily prosperous. While the tourist, cata-logue in hand, is permitted to pass through sleeping apartments which wereonce occupied by some Marie Antoinette, or Napoleon, or Marie Teresa, andthe pillows of the couch and the canopy are ablaze with splendor, for the mostpart the sleeping apartments are as unpretending as a hundred homes in thesame city of Berlin, or Vienna, or St. Petersburg, or Copenhagen. While thebanquet of a king or quee
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . living rooms of European potentates are for the most part asplain as the rooms of people ordinarily prosperous. While the tourist, cata-logue in hand, is permitted to pass through sleeping apartments which wereonce occupied by some Marie Antoinette, or Napoleon, or Marie Teresa, andthe pillows of the couch and the canopy are ablaze with splendor, for the mostpart the sleeping apartments are as unpretending as a hundred homes in thesame city of Berlin, or Vienna, or St. Petersburg, or Copenhagen. While thebanquet of a king or queen might easily swamp what we would call manythousands of dollars, and the gleam of the chalice, and the flash of the plateare something to be remembered for a lifetime, the ordinary breakfast orluncheon or dinner of a palace is as plain as ordinary cutlery, and table-cloth,and ice-pitcher can make it. The breakfast room at Stockholm where KingOscar and his Queen sit, morning after morning, is probably as simple as the Ii6 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK.
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