The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-08-15
A BELLE OF THE FAIR ANALYZED.
from the $. F. Chronicle.l

BY the Fair fountain we sat and
Wondered. Over our head dropped
a thousand flags; to our ears came
the drip and splash of the waters,
the hum of many voices and the con
cord of brazen melody from the
orchestra. The commlngied fra
GRANGE of a thousand blossoms
loaded heavily the evening atmos-
phere of Industry's graceful palace.
Before the eye there passed off
phases of San Francisco male and
female beauty. Bright were the
tints and gorgeous the effects.
A MAIDEN
OF some ten and a-half decades
passed me arrayed in ten distinct
shades of color: Skirt, white; waist,
blue: panier, red; gloves, green !;
CATERS. bronze: neck-ribbons, pink;
complexion, by night, creamily
transparent; by day, a dead pallor;
hair. bv night, blonde; by day,
brown. We said to ourselves,
Here is a triumph of art not down
in the catalogue" She Is a perlpa-
tetic kaleidoscope. externally and
fearfully and wonderfully made. 10
inclose her in that dress, how much
labor, art, industry, study, 1nven-
tion and science have been expended.
For her a thousand silk-worms have
lived. spun and died. For such
steel as may
INCLoSE HER FORM,
For the pins in her robe and the
pins in her hair, miners have dug,
furnaces blazed. engines putfed, ma
chiuerv changed. For her CATERS,
the innocent. coniding calf hath
rendered up his breath and his skin;
for her gloves, the frlsky Kid or the
enterprising and adventurous rat.
Gold on her wrists, gold about her
neck. gold on her fingers, gold IN
her rather capaclous ears. For that
very gold an "honest miner III gray
shirt and rubber boots has slulced,
hvdraulicked, piped, panned, rocked,
creviced, lived on pork and beans,
slept for years only
IN BLANKETS,
And possibly robbed. stolen and
slain his partner. Diamonds also
glisten on her fingers. For them
the black, unclad Brazilian slave
hath lived and died. Pearls pendant
from her ears. For them-down
among the dark-green sea depths,
down among the sharks, the deadly
and clammv polypi, the gigantic sea
crabs-hath the naked diver, KNIFE
in hand, groped and peered. Elastics
GENTLY ENcIRcLING AND PRESSING
The outer carnal covering of her
tibula and fibula bones. For them
I see more Of Brazil's swarthy sons
tapping the catchouc tree. She car
ries O. tortoise-shell reticule. For
that mother or shell ll-incased child OF
ocean died. Feathers crown hel
head. For them some sonSster
notes prematurely ceased. 10 array
that fair one 10y the fountain, ships
even now are voyaginS, steamers
putting, men digging, mechanic Ia.
boring, inventors contrlvlng, ano
artists devising new forms, ne"
shades of color. Whalemen are
also
CASTING THE HARPooN,
And huntsmen tracking the colo
forests of the North. For the
profits resulting from the carrying
and manufacturing so much OF the
material of which outwardly thu
Young woman is fearfully and won
derfully made up by the MILNE
and mantua maker, nations are read'
to go to war, men are ready to Gu
each Others throats, swords to flash
rifles to crack, cannon to thunder
mitrailleuses to grunt, and states
men. ministers, ambassadors an'
diplo1 aats brood, study and ponde
to outxit each other.
c1 ior,+ cara mucb for all this