Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them . e world as magnificent isdevoted to such a purpose. It is seventy-two feet long;thirty-two feet wide, and twenty-seven feet six inches-high. Exclusive of the upper cornice, the walls are builtentirely of marble. Seven varieties meet and merge intoeach other, to make the harmony of its blended the main floor it rises through two stories of thebuilding. Thus it has upper and lower windows, be-tween which a narrow bronze gallery runs, encircling theentire room. The base of the stylobate of the firs
Ten years in Washington : Life and scenes in the national capital, as a woman sees them . e world as magnificent isdevoted to such a purpose. It is seventy-two feet long;thirty-two feet wide, and twenty-seven feet six inches-high. Exclusive of the upper cornice, the walls are builtentirely of marble. Seven varieties meet and merge intoeach other, to make the harmony of its blended the main floor it rises through two stories of thebuilding. Thus it has upper and lower windows, be-tween which a narrow bronze gallery runs, encircling theentire room. The base of the stylobate of the first storyis black Vermont marble, the mouldings are BardiglioItalian, the styles dove Vermont marble, the panelsSienna Italian, and the dies Tennessee. Above the stylo-bate, the styles are of Sienna marble. With these arecontrasted the pale primrose tints of the Corinthianpilasters and a cornice of white-veined Italian the windows, and in corresponding positionsat the ends of the rooms, are panels of the dark-veinedBardiglio Italian marble, the exact size of the THE watch-dog OF THE TEEASUET. 341 The stylobate and the styles and pilasters of the secondstory show the same tints and variety of marbles whichmark the first. But the panels are of Sarran Golummarble, from the Pyrenees. The latter is one of therarest of marbles; at a distance, of a blood-red nearer inspection, it reveals undreamed-of beau-ties in veining and tint. The pilasters of the second story are not like those ofthe first story, pure—but complex. They support a cor-nice, not of wrought marble, as all the remainder of theroom would promise, but of plaster of Paris, fantasticallywrought and profusely gilded. This cornice is of that meretricious ornamentation which in so manynoble spaces disfigures the Capitol. Extending the length of the room is a costly counter,of various marbles, surmounted by a balustrade of mahog-any and plate-glass. Within this are busy the cler
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