New-York tribune., 1873-06-14

of handsome dresses made and trimmed In the latest
fashion, and Of hats and bonnes OF the newest mode
lovely things IN womans eyes, but Of small interest
to the other ser, who will pass them by to look
at the goods shown by aors shoemakers and hatters
I'm the adjoining transept The shopkeeping character
OF tho Austrian Department is particularly prominent
here The readymade clothing 10 ticketed with price
labels and each stack Of the business cards
OF the exhibitor, from which the visitor can help him
self he wishes. Often clerk is at hand to offer cards
IN all who stop to look This is Objectionable ar
rangement 70 foreigners who want 20 make purchases
in Vienna, for IL Ia quite convenient and saving Of
hme TO decide upon ones tailor or dressmakcr by
amining the articles exhibited side by side, and then
going directly 10 a shop and ordering duplicate article
1t must confessed however, that this OF making
a retail shOpof the Worlds Fair deraets from Its dignity
not little.
large covered court between two OF the transepts
Is flied with furniture. aud has always throng OF
visitors who look at the articles with that friendly in
terest that people take in household objects The easy
chairs the comfortable BEDS the pretty cradles draped
with Lace the hosptabe tables that impatient TO
perform their Office the graceful cabinets and secretares
are full of suggestions that appeal 10 ALL aud the kind Of
coyeteOnsnes which sghs 10 possess them is certainly
Teprehensbe than that which excited by precious
stOnes jewery, and elegant knick knacks The Vienna
cabnetmakers and upholsterers make very hand
some furniture, and greater variety Of
woods than commonly employed in
the United States They are particularly skful in
combining woods OF different kinds so to produce
pleasing effects OF color, and their carved and inaid
work highly artistic There appears to be restrain
ing feature as to form or material to prevent them
from exercising their taste. With u.s. OF late years,
walnut bedsteads with clumsy, high headboards and
and tables Of set forms have been the STYLE and
il has been almost impossible and anything else In the
stores. Here variety OF forms may always be found
and for material walnut, cherry elm, oak, poplar wild
plum, nussangen "a dark wood mottled with eyelke
spOts), and number OF beautiful light woods
resembling curly.mape, are employed alone and
in combinations. Very graceful and cheap furniture IS
also made Of iron painted to initiate wood. Single
bedsteads are used almost exclusively. All over the
continent double beds are regarded as relics OF
barbarism. The bedding here in Austria Is curiosity
They have all the modern inventions OF springs and
mattresses but the only covering Is usually very thick
quilt Of brghcolored silk deaine, around the edges
of which the upper sheet is butoned so as TO make
white border OF about three inches wide. the upper
side and this border IS plated trimmed with Lace
The dro thing about this coverle B that IL neyerong
enough 10 reach the shoulders to the feet and the
only way you can make it cover you ia to curl up Ike
cat.
Opposite the furniture section is a court filed with
household utensils, among which porcelain stoves
and mante quaint crockery such as the common peo-
pie use kitchen furniture OF wood and iron and brass
all interesting curiostes in small way to an Amer
ican The most striking objects this court the fanc
full structures and devices made by the Vienna soap
manufacturers. There Greek temples With grape
laden vines wreathing their cornces, and baskets OF
tempting glruit within-all made OF soap There
are vases and pedestals statues and busts Of
marble, jasper, alabaster, chslcedony, one would
say, but really Of nothing but soap. won
derfu thing Is soap in the hands OF these
cunning Vienna artisans II becomes apples, peaches
plums cherries oranges, currants, cucum0ers slices OF
cheese sausages, doughnuts in outward sembanoe
afrfG all
all these edibes which counterfeits look natural
that any would iput his teeth in them before he
pected the deceit. The candlemakers have also nge
and tasteful ways of displaying their wares and
the perfumers the druggists and the makers Of
oils sugar starch and other domestic necessities. In
fact one Of the most noticeable and praisewOrthy
features OF the Austrian Department Is the way in
which things OF common nse, which IN themselves nave
little beauty, are grouped and arranged III man
might say something about the remarkably hne dis
plays OF fuTs, artificial flowers, and firearms for the
manufacture OF which Vienna has reputation through
out Central and western Europe might slto feIer 10
the show Of aces from the Tyrol and the Erzge6rge Of
Bohea, HOSensa nov i MAJ oshin IN 9tnt r er
day by day It requires more resolution to pass their
transepts ana courts that beckOn on elther hahd Win
the strong attractive power OF thousands Oh beautiful
objects.
have made surprised at the extent VI the exnb-
tOn Of Austrian goods, Whlch occupy, as LsEe salo
more than fourth Of the whole palace. am also sur
prsed to ind how many diverse ln9nqlaeltllns IN
dusries represented and 10 learn OF the reafkaDe
years. AT the same time cannot puI observe tIat the
natural desire Of the Vienna shOpkeepers 10 advertise
their and customers among the visitors who
come to the Exhibition has contributed IN no small
measure TO produce this extensive display. great
deal OF room is occupied by fancy articles such
tourists like buy souvenirs OF their travels and the
space occupied by such trhes Is disproportionatey
great. They Vienna specalues, ana thelr makers
know that the Exhibition affords opportunity OF adj
yertlsng them to the whole world such as never
occurred before Whether the management, to
satisfy the eagerness of the Vienna shopkeepers
has unduly restricted the provinces OF the En-
pre iu the allotment OF space or whether these
provinces produce little that 10 worth showing cannot
say but most OF them make but poor hgure Boz
heua with her great speciality OF glasswOrk aud with
her linens, cOtons, laces shaws JewelrY, and WOODEN
goods does remarkably WELL but every thing contributed
being missed, IL we except the wooden IaDtics OF
Morayia. From the province OF Galela there IS
absolutely nothing; the 1yrol, styria, istrla, ana
those are 50 Obscured by the profuslon OF Vienna
goods that they will generally be overlooked; Dalm3ua
and CarmOa contribute curious array OF peasant cos
the Military Frontier have not seen single article
Austria proper outside OF Vienna aud the manufactur-
represented. Hungary should have SAID before, does
not exhibit the Austrian Department at all but mas
her own department Proud OF her newly regalned ma
uouality stands apart IN the E1HDiOn and naunts
her trcoored flags Of green white and red In the face
OF the Ausrans that they may not forget that she Is no
longer part OF their empire but IS once more inde
nendent kingdom. Francis Joseph Is not Emperor in
Hungary but only King, and Austria no longer gives
laws to the Magyars, who nave taken good way OF
the world OF this fact by separating them
selves from their neghbOrs aud drapng the Two pas
cages " Mich lead the Austrian Department 10 their
own with the national cOors. WHAT there Is behind
thes flags We shall see hereafter
THE IRREGULARITIES IN THE AMERICAN
DEPARTMENT.
sutpNtvDrT oF RESTAURANT GOODS AT THE PUBLIC