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Homes Of The Mighty PAGE II • PI .A I> DF. A1 X.R - WEDNESDAY. APRIL U. Itft f ~ A, - i , a v : 3* IP U r TW -vv ^ | ̂ This is a back view of the Biltmore House and Gardens, Asheville, SC.. which is open to the public daily from Feb. 1 to Dec. IS. things you use to show off and things you own and do because you love them. It shows most mightily at Biltmore. You can see this great house from all over the country side and when you are in it you can see for miles and yet I came away less impressed with it than many places smaller and simpler where just ordinary things were enhanced not by money but by love and discernment. We got a good motel for the night. The manager had few guests and gave us a small suite for the price of a room. I called Berea, Ky.. to make reservations for the next night No room Yet the next day I marched up to the desk, asked for a room and was asked what kind I wanted and there were any number to be had. You never can tell, can you? You don't shove-you persist. C O U R T H O U S E S Q U A R E S (by Father William 0. Hanner, rector emeritus of Holy Comforter church, Episcopal, Kenilworth) Early on the morning of March 22, with the gleam of exploration still in our eyes, we left blossoming Augusta and headed north for Asheville, N.C. In a few minutes we were across the Savannah river and in South Carolina. We stuck to the fast roads because we wanted time at Biltmore, one of the great Vanderbilt houses. They had others like the Breakers at Newport, R.I., New York City and the gods only know where else. They lived before the days of big government when you had no income tax and what you made in one way or another was all yours to blow in on whatever foolishness you felt made a show. One Vanderbilt once married a duke and so got on the social ladder on a high rung. The marriage later foundered but that does not concern us here. When we got to Asheville we had lunch in a dairy bar the estate runs. I suppose Biltmore was Mr. V's idea of a farm. We even went to see the herd and the calves as any good McHenry county citizen should do who comes from our dairy part of the country. Biltmore itself is a huge palace. It is baronial, nay ducal, jolly near royal, mostly built with the profits of early railroading. The "house" is four stories high and has several rooms large enough to comfortably store any home in Whispering Oaks. The dining room could seat 98 (or was. it 96). There is an entrance hall, a foyer and a palm court before you get to the dining room--Oh, let me be truthful, the "banquet hall, for there is a "family" dining room behind the hall that is perchance twice over the size of the garden on our front slope and then some. The brochure tells you there are 255 rooms in the home. Many of these were servants' quarters for it took an army to run the place. Mr. V. had a large bedroom and bath and Mrs. V. the same, both lushly furnished for that period. Between these two master rooms lies a great hall filled with pictures and art objects. If the master and mistress had any matters to tend to th^fe made a meeting advisable it was a long way from one room to the other. The risk of getting lost in the maze of chairs and other paraphernalia and im­ pedimenta was great-- particularly so if it were a dark day. In this great hall stood the small table on which Napoleon's heart rested after his death when it was removed from his body. Here also is the chess set he used at St. Helena. So there are rooms, suites, galleries, stairs, courts, closets 'til you see the futility of a house party. It would get lost and never be heard from again, like some traveler years ago in the Sahara. Therefore, we turned our attention to the outside, I said a word about farm and dairy but there are gardens and greenhouses and paths and shrubs, flowering trees, beds of plants etc. You know the Hanners well enough by this time to know that gardens impress us. There was not much in bloom. It was too early. But neither of us thought the outlook promising. The Duponts' gardens in Delaware are better. I like the Huntington Gardens in San Marino, Ca., better and I'd take Whitnall park (Boerner Botonic Gar­ dens) Gardens any time. I saw better in Edinburg, Scotland. In Italy both in the Pope's gardens and the fountain gardens of Villa d' Este were finer, more stately and yet more loving. Biltmores' were simply pur­ chased. There is a difference in WHO DARE NOT TRY/ LIVE BUT HALF Getting ready for the next 200 years , 73,050 days of liberty and law! Think of it. Celebrate it. But resist the temptation to fall back into that special kind of stupor induced by smugness. There is a high -- more dangerous than drugs or alcohol - that comes from fantasies of superiority. 73,050 days! We began our journey as a nation with a masterpiece - the American Constitution - to guide us. 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