The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-10-26

LEARNED. RESULTS. THE LATEST
PAgIsIAy SENSATION.
Prom our regular correspondent
PARIS, Sept. 90. 1873
AS one talks to holiday makers now
home in shoals, after max
ing poin, Of seeing tie Exhibition,
one cannot we'll avoid calling to mind
the half forgotten fable of Eye and
no Eyes" over again, only on larger
scale and with q greatly increased va
riety Of episode. 1t need scarcely be
said that allude to that class Of gen.
eral sight-seers which SO enormously
prependerate over the comparatively
few visitors who have been to the ex-
hibition for some definite purpose Of
art or business or both combined, and
expect to make tangible profit in one
way or another, out of the latest
achievements of agricultural engineers,
of potters, Of upholsterers and of build
ers. The general visitors have been.
or are going to Paris, partly because
they like to see oil Exhibitions of any
kind, partly because they fancy that
they ought to see this particular En-
hibition for the sake of being as other
r,cn are and of obtaining material for
small talk, and partly, if the truth
he told, because they grasp eagerly at
any excuse for holiday in the recrea-
ton ground Of Europe. The impress
sions left upon different members Of
this body by their inspection of the
Paris Exhibition, are worth studying
by reason of their variety and their SIN
gularly contradictory nature. There
are, first of al, those good people who
come home perfectly delighted with
all that they have seen, because they
fear that if they seemed dissatisfied
their neighbors would fancy they had
Numbered into failure and waste of
money and time. At the opposite pole,
though actuated by much the same in
slHCeiits Va hpt''r, "ie INC uhA"PpS
people who are disappointed. because
they think it is the correct thing to be
disappointed, and because they believe
that their dissatisfaction proves their
own superiority. Leaving the genuine
impressions Of these sight seers out of
the question as beyond tho reach of
ANYTHING save guess work, We come to
the spectators who are chiefly struck by
the magnitude of the things to be seen.
They have been oppressed with their
self-imposed task of pleasure, and hav-
ing no method in their holiday occupa
ton. have confessedly derived from il
little but vague sense of its import
suce. Therc-has been so much to see
that they have seen nothing. 1t would,
they say. and say truthfully. take weeks
to " do" the Exhibition thoroughly; so
they have not known how to send a
few days there with intelligent enjoy
ment With them. it is not exactly a
case OF "no eyes," or of eyes wilfully
blind; they honestly desire to see. but
they do not know where to begin to
look. Others, still, without the chsrmed
circle of those who have acquired the
art OF Seeing" have failed because
they have limited too closely their hor-
lion. Interested in the pictures, they
have forgotten the furniture; paying at
tention to the Characteristic productions
of the furniture makers, they have
missed taking comprehensive view of
the characteristic structures in which
they are placed. Struck by the merely
curious. they have lost sight of the
beautiful. or on the other hand. they
have looked only where they could ad-
mire.
1t would be difficult to expand the
catalogue of exhibition.goers to a
lcngth IS great as that Of the more
familiar exhibition catalogue. The
ways Of seeing are as many as the
sights to be seen. AS q rule, it may be
said that ne who takes most into an ex
hibition takes most out of it, just as he
who brings most information to bear on
book derives most from its pages. 1t
is certain that the art OF profitable
sight seeing is one well worthy OF cul.
tivation. since the result Of proficiency
in it is to increase indefinitely the
means aud opportunity Of education
Not only are we enabled by its aid ia
effect the oft-laughed.at combination oi
business and pleasure: our very pleasures
are elevated aud intensified by the
mental advancement which they are
thus made to imply If the series Of
exhibitions inaugurated in 1851. and
eliminating for the time being in 1878.
had done nothing else. they would have
accomplished great work in training
the myriads who have visited them to
make profitable use of these powers Of
general observation which so often lie
dormant while other faculties are
actually employed in the routine OF
life That the crowds who now throng
the buildings opposite the Trocadero,
and study its huge mass of contents. are
better fitted than their predecessors OF
twenty-seven years ago to derive men
tai improvement from their stsay. can
scarcely be doubted. They have much
to learn before they Can gain the full
benefit from gigantic opportunity
such rs this; but they have also learned
much, aud have done 30 in no small
degree. by the aid Of the movement set
on foot in the various capitals OF
Europe. To those who have been
taught how to use an exhibition prop
erly, there will bs new value 10 every
examination Of the shop windows Of .
foreign city; or, indeed. of their native
town. And, what is still more valua.
BILE they will never miss the possible
interest Of daily life because they en-
pioy mo eyes" in the observation Of
the objects which lie in their path.
A very peculiar case is just now ex-
citing indigestion against the Paris