The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-06-29

his chin IN his hahur, 10 spIihS
away and atomic with odorou- extracts
anv passer who showed signs OF IoIIering
near; rater / sing such geniuses as he Of
the Clrriage Hi, who illustrated his
cradle attachment to the parental bedstead,
and his automaton baby tender. From
how much letting up at night, and how
much weary care by day, these inventions
had sprung, one could only conjecture; but
[ am sure that the most profound domestic
.xpeneuce inspired them. The inventor
vas never weary showing how, with his
cradle hung by springs 10 your bedside, you
\ ad but TO roll over and rock the most re-
fractory baby to sleep, without losing your
,emuer or your rest; how en- simply insert
ing an infant into the aperture OF his
" v6eeled stool, the child walked about all
lay in perpetual content, blessing 10 him.
elf and his parents. The terms OF conf
lence which he established with admlring
mothers. the winks he gave, the nudges
which | am sure he inspired to give, were
all charming. and came from nothing less
than a sense Of having benefited the whole
human race. Almost as serenely confident
was the Young lady who operated the
Radiant Flat Iron in the Machinery Hall,
an implement in whose hollow frame burnt
a gas flame blown hotter by draft OF air,
the two elements being conveyed thither by
Indian rubber tubes from reservoirs under
the ironing table. "But what makes the
OF the gas and air" "Oh, you
see stand on a sort OF bellows, which l
work by resting from one foot TO the other
as one alwas does IN ironing" The world
is perhaps not yet prepared for the Intricate
virtues OF the Radiant Flat Iron, but in the
mean time We venerated its ingenuity. 1t
Is. doubtless, as promising of general useful
ness as that beautiful ice-boat which our
hurried US away to see, and which
seems peculiarly popular with the wheelers
of chair; they perhaps envy its capacity
for getting over space at the rate oil mile
a minute, though this need not be, as 1t Is
time they should rather desire to annihilate.
They are an obliging race, and the chairs
are a great help 10 the enjoyment
of the Centennial They are 10 he
found in each Of ihe principal
buildings, and it is best TO take them anew
in each hall, instead Of hiring one for a
tour Of the whole. II you do that, much
time is lost, and in getting out 10 climb
steps and cross broken spaces and railroad
tracks, the occupant OF the chair shares too
actively in the enterprise. The chairs are
mainly for ladies very few men have the
self-respect requisite for being publicly
trundled about in that manner.
To any one who knows the different
American types, the attendants and opera
tives in the Machinery and Agricultural
Halls would afford curious study. The
Western face distinguishes itself very easi-
ly from that OF the Middle States, but In
its eagerness is not 50 readily told from that
Of New England, which shows how largely
New England has characterized the appear
ance, while Pennsylvania has prevailed IN
the accent, OF the younger States. Where
New England came out with most start
ling evidence was in the visages of the
Waltham waich-makers, who, whether
pure Yankees or Yankeeized foreigners,
had looks that no one could mistake.
They were at work there all day with
their life-like machinery, and on every
side the thousand creations of American
inventive genins were in operation, with
an exhilaratiOn and impressiyeness in the
whole effect which can in no wise be de-
scribed. OF the huger machinery, the
working OF some pumps that drove their
streams of water far over and across great
tank was the gayest and most strenuous
sight 1 should hardly know how TO justify
TO the inexperienced the Joy | knew in put
ting nv hand over an air-blast, that flung
il into the air like leaf. Nevertheless,
such things are.
| have left the Carriage Hall to the last,
though it vas one OF the first things We saw.
am not connoisseur of wheeled vehicles,
and dare say | admired not too wisely.
The American shapes seemed TO me the
most elegant; there was queerness, gro
tesqueness, an eccentriciry, about the
English, when they were not too heavy.
But what most seizes the spectator is some
ones CHASTITY fancy of 4 white hearse. Ii
shows that black hearse is not the most
repGlsive thing that can be. There are
some exquisite specimens of car-architec-
ture for Il Brazilian railroad 4 buggy from
Indiana is kept do not know why-in a
glass case and there is 4 very resplendent
Pullman ca- through which We walked, for
10 reason that j can give-probably the
mere overmastering habit OF sightseeing.
We thought il well during our week al
the Centennial to lunch as variously as pos
sibie, and can speak by the card concern
ing the German Restaurant, the two French
Restaurants, and the Vienna Bakery; the
native art in cooking we did not test. The
German Restaurant and the Lafayette Res
taurant are very reasonable in theil
charges, less expensive, indeed, than most
tirst-class city restaurants. The Troii
Freres ProvencaUx is impudently extor.
tionate. Not that dishes cooked with 50
much more sentiment than any you car
find elsewhere are not worth more, but that
there are absurd charges for what Ameri.
cans ordinarily pay nothing for; bread
butter, and service at double and quadruple
the Partisan rates. But it is even worse
at the Vienna Bakery, where they have
twenty-five cents for a cup Of coffee, and
not good coffee at that-not at all the cof.
fee of Vienna. Happily, no one is Obliged
to go TO these places for sustenaBce. There
are hundred others within the ground,
where you msy lunch cheaply and well, oi
cheaply and i'll, which most of our nation
like better. There is, for instance, a large
pavilion where one may surcharge the
stomach with pie and milk at a very low
price There is an American Restaurant
there is Southern Restaurant (selved by
lustrous citizens of color. there is a res
taurant attached to the Old Colony House
there is no end TO them; and | am very
glad to say of them, and OF all othel
American enterprises for the public com.
tort, that their opportunity has not been
improved TO the public ruin. The ex.
tortion seems TO be all by the foreign
ers,-unless sixty cents an hour is too
much for a wheeled chair. | think ii is
but the chairs will doubtless be cheaper
when the cars Of the circular railroad have
run over two or three. All stories of the
plundering OF strangers by the Philadel-
phians may be safely distrusted. Probably
never before in the history Of worlds fairs
has the attitude of the local city towards
its guests been so honest, so conscientious,
50 generous.
A very pleasant thing about the exhibi-
tion is your perfect freedom there. There
are innumerable officials there to direct
you, TO hell you, 10 care for you, but none
of them bothers you. Ii you will keep of
those clay slopes and and expanses which
are placardsd "Grass," there will be no in
reference with any caprice Of your personal
liberty. This is the right American man.
agement of a public pleasure.
The muse at all minded 10 sing the hu-
mors of great holiday affair could find
endless inspiration at the Centennial; but
there are space and the reader to be regard
ed. Yet must not leave the theme with
out speaking of the gayety of the approach
es and surroundings; the side shows are
outside here, and the capacity for amuse-
ment which the Centennial fails to fill need
not go hungering amid the provision made
for it by private enterprise. 1t is curious to
see the great new hotels of solid and fimsy
construction near the grounds, and the
strange city which has sprung up in an
swer to the necessities of the worlds fair.
From every front and top stream the in
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