The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-13
The Louisville Exposition.

Are you discouraged and you want to feel
hopeful Do you get but little out of life7 Are
you unnerved by staying at home too longf
Have you nothing new to say to your friends,
being quite talked out! Are you weary of mo-
notony and do you need a changed Then go to
to the Louisville Exposition. Go! Go! You
will have a whole planet-full of new things to
discuss; you will have seen you will have
thought, you will have enjoyed-you will return
"brain-stuffed with something to sustain lfe."
There, in sister city, is going on the biggest
show known. You get up at half past A. NJ.
two or three extra nightfulls of sleep will set
you up for this undertaking-you take the 4:25
train, and you the rise over the rich
brown and green landscape where
''The frost is ON the punkIn
And the folders in the shock"
or perhaps you take series of naps waking
finally on the Louisville bridge. At the depot
are street cars to take you to the Exposition.
You can breakfast, dine and sup at the EXPOSE
ton. Once within it, the show unrolls all day
like some vast volume. The display is immense
in all respects, and is so spacious, well lighted
and varied that it may be observed without IA
tigue. All kinds of fascinating things to be
seen there. A good hot dinner at noon will forti-
fly you for fresh rambles in the afternoon. And
in the afternoon there is Gilmore's concert, DUR
ing which you sit still and rest while listening.
Yes, sure enough, there is Pat. Gilmore ex-band
master of the British army III India, seventy
years old, and lad yet, good luck to him. His
orchestra is not OF the wash-boiler and fog-horn
variety. What cresendos!
"They come as the wind comes when the forests
are rended,
Come as the waves come when navies are
stranded"
And what diminuendos, dying away full of
feeling; and what variety of music, some of it
queer, weird and changing, but not unpleasantly
so. When night comes you see the Edison
lights shower their warm, delicious sparkle over
the scene At P. NJ. you are off, more maps
and then home at H. The climax of the show is
the art gallery. 1t stands in a garden of grass,
lofty old trees, fountains and flowers, all still
untouched by frost Can anybody tell why pic
ture-gallery builders object to plenty of light
There is not enough the Louisville gallery.
A streak of sunlight does creep in now and then
and lights up the details OF the Meissoniers
and GerOmes as they need to be lighted up.
The Louisville gallery is wonderful and great.
There are quantities of pictures of the highest
finish, and very interesting. One, three inches
square, is exquisite INSTRUMENTATION playing
hide and seek behind door that opens upon an
inner room, all rosy with freight, where their
mother sits with friends. 1t is evening, the
supper hour is at hand, and you can see perfectly
all the details OF furniture and dress, strings Of
onions the wall, and so on. 1t is beautiful
There is by the great Gerome, "Arabs play
ing chess
(Which man might remember
From June TO December,
And see again in the spring
After the thawlng."
There is one enormous picture of q mask ball
at the operahouse Paris, which is all movement
life, gayety and color, and is full of beautiful,
laughing figures, dressed in silks or in dominoes.
1t should be looked at to tho sound of music.
All kinds of fine works there.
Listen to the crowd aboat the pictures. and
you will hear appreciative and sound REMARKS
Says one: "This old fisherman has let down his
sail, and is pulling for the shore. The wind is
down; sails up in the distance. The sea
air is well DONE" A picture named 'The
Dwarfs Harangue" has an admiring throng. 1t
represents a room in old CASTLE The castle
retainers, in seventeenth-century dress, are
listening to dwarf, whose fine, dark face is full
of pathos. 1t is painted perfectly, in the opinion
Of the crowd. Along comes an art oonnoisseur.
what! Like that, do you2 That's entirely too
smooth" says the art connoseur. Crowd, much
abashed, think they must be wrong. Some Of
these pictures are TO be at our exhibition.
MARY DEAN