Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-08-21
THE LONDON EXHIBITION.
fAe Wonders Of Indian Art-ArtIssIs ss
work-Ceylon and south Africa

fAs Wonders Of Indian Art-ArtIsaIs ss
work-ceylon and South Africa
The London season is being prolonged
Mis- year for several reasons. and the
colonial and Indian exhibition has intro
duced a new feature to the social whirl.
There are special entertainments every
where for the colonial and Indian people,
bsnquets, balls, flower shows, garden
parties, fetes at the Crystal Palace and
ct every other place. The exhibition is
vast, endless labyrinth of things strange
and interesting, and one revels in Indian
art products particularlarly. The same
buildings at South Kensington hold it as
hsld the fisheries, health and inventions
exhibitions in preceding seasons, and
sach colony has tried to outdo all the
others in making great show for itself.
The Indian courts ara dreams of carved
and inlaid screens lining the long gal
leries for hundreds and hundreds OF
feet, with Indian carpets and draperies
covering the upper walls, trophies OF
Indian arms over every doorway. and
the roof all a-futter with flags and ban
ners.
Within the arches of the carved screen
are the glass cases containing jewelry,
silks. muslins, and embroidered stuffs
by the half-mile, and one tears himself
away from one case TO 60 TO another
filed with even more distracting things.
There are embroideries in gold and colors
10 make one sigh with envy, and tissues
Of gold thread embroidered with pearls
and beetles wings until they surpass all
ones imaginings of East Indian gor-
geousness. Cashmere shawls and Chud-
dab shawls. chuddahs so fine and silky
that the mythical feat of drawing them
through ring can be done in plain sight,
and chuddahs of infinite shades of soft,
dull blues and reds and grays, bewilder
one in their various presentation. The
Benares hrassware, the Bombay carved
woods and case after case of fretted sill
yer hold one before them, and as for
gold and silver and jeweled ornaments
It would seem as if ell India had emptied
such treasures into he exhibition. The
Dacca muslins, the famous fabrics known
there as"dew OF the evening" and
woven air" from their fneness and
transparency, are shown, each yard
worth more than a tissue of gold thread
Of the same width.
Better than all these things in cases is
the Indian palace in one of the open
courts, where the pink and white stone
work Of the city of Jenpore is repeated
IN a model palace, whose first courtyard
Is filed with the shops of native artisans
at work, weaving carpets, embroidering
shawls, cutting stone to the fineness OF
lace-work, molding clay on the primi-
tive potter's wheel and beating out gold
and silver ornaments. This Scindiah
palace contains two rooms sacred to the
use of the prince of Wales from which
the public is roped out, but into which
one can al least look and see the domed
and softly shaded room with its beauti-
full walls, its divans and rugs and GEN.
tral basin of overflowing water that re-
fleets as mirror the arches and the silk
ranopied ceiling.
The Ceylon division begins with a copy
d the gateway and parts OF the Buddhist
Temple of the Sacred Tooth of Handy,
and Gantama and Buddhist emblems are
prominent in all the decorations of the
Ceylon gallery. There is large case Of
gems in this division, over which one
hangs enraptured. In it are cats eyes
IS large as the end of your thumb, and
ticketed at $4,000 for one such trifie.
and rubies and sapphires of size and
color never seer in other exhibitions.
Rubies in the rough, and sapphires of
every other shade beside blue dull as
tral sapphires that show five-pointed
star of white light when held at a certain
angle: alexandrites that are alternately
green and red, and softly shining moon
stones dazzle the eve in the range of that
one case of Ceylon treasures, and silver
and gold and pearls, lace and tortoise
shell. make circle Of attractions around
the gems.-"Ruhanah" in Globe-D Demo
crat.