Up in the Capitol building tho hall of
tho Houso of Representatives had been
transferred into something lovely for tho
first timo in its eventful career of stupid
hideonsness. Tho desks and chaiis had
boen removed and the ladies had filled
the room with a wealth of artistic treasures
of antiquities. Thoro wero ancient
furniture and specimens of fancy work as
beautiful as they were ancient. An old
piano and a spinning-wheel stood side by
side, and I noticed a fair young girl run
her fingers idly over tho keys of tho
instrument as her great grandmothor
might have done at the samo sunny age.
The keys wero yellow and somowhat battered,
but tho old music box gave, in its
cracked nnd tremulous voice, somo anch
sounds as might be made by tho spirit of
the old dame who first owned it trying to
warble a lovo song of that forgotten time.
I didn't see any of the girls experiment
with however. Maybe
they thought it was a buzz saw, and
feared to take hold of it.
But perhaps tho most desirable part of
this display was tho array of pictures of
the old Governors and other celebrities
connectod with the history of Frankfort.
There was a long lino of picture3 by Jouott
some fifteen or twenty of thorn I judged,
though I did not count them. Some one
siid in my hearing that it was tho largest
and best collection of his pictures which
had ever been placed on exhibition.
