Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-09-20

TO know the best
methods of doing these things generally.
/ hope that America Will adopt the Partisan
style Of street and that Paris will look ia
V0rably on our Yankee matrOns.
referred before to the fact that the
French girls are pretty according to my
judgment, but the mlddIe-aged5 elderly
women do not equal those OF America
Here the beauty of twenty is not followed
by the Well-retained good looks and gentle
dignity Of forty, it seems to me. The
American girl is eqUaled by none, but the
American matrOn, without doubt, holds
the age, as one might say, on the rest Of
the universe, and gets gOOd-iOOking as the
rOsts come, like maple tree in the au-
tumn.
AS write this my feet are sore from the
weary march over the great exhibition, and
yet I have not seen a fraction of it. A
bright young American correspondent told
me on my arrival to visit as peculiar feat
IRE the concert and dance of the Algerians,
and I did so. 1t is one of the most unique
things OF the show. 1t costs a franc, but it
is worth more than that. After drinking
two cups OF powerful coffee OF the TUntS
variety, costing 10 confines, 1 paid my
money and visited the concert and stomach
dance of Algeria. The hurdY gurdy Of the
| Transmission country and the can-can of
the continent are not knee nigh to this
great exhibit. 1t is barbaric. 1t is heather
ssh. 1t is unique. If a New York man
with money will take the troupe over to
/ America, he will make more money than
anybody. There are about twenty people
1 On the programme, including the orchestra.
They are all shades Of color, from the char
coal to the olive tinted dancers, and the
/ figures they cut would attract attention and
/ startle the eye Of the entire Union. With
good advertising and Autographs, they
would make much money and Offset the
! continued success Of Buffalo Bill.
The orchestra does not play so well as
MIR. Seidl or Patsey Gilmore, for the range
/ is small and the instruments are exceed
/ ingly tough The middle man is an old pO-
/ IygamOus Algerian who also plays a green
corn stalk fiddle. On his LETT is a cOrpUlent
! woman, of say fOrty-fve, with black name,
/ who MARBLES ike a WOOdpecker. A cOIOF3d
/ man plays the bass drum, and some more
/ cOlOred people play on anything they can
/ get a hold of that will make a noise. A
/ small girl, in her stocking feet then pro-
/ ceeds to dance. She is followed by a girl
/ Of thirteen or fourteen, who dances sword
/ dance, Interspersed with barbGric yells by
! the company. Then a very pretty girl. with
/ small hands and feet in Turkish trousers,
/ dances a collie Dance which meets with
much applause. It is different from any
thing have ever seen at the Patriarchs'
] balls IN New YORK. She is aJG1Eed IN a cool
/ white costume of mosquito netting and a
Marseiues quilt, which she lays aside when
she begins. She also wears gold anklets
] when the weather is cool, and a silk scarf
/ in each hand as she proceeds with the
/ dance, allowing JOY to be entirely uncOn-
/ fined. She is Of full habit, and her corset
/ bill is very small. She wears what would
be called health costume, nd when she
dances she does so with great vigOr. Sew
! eral people from America went away while
she danced, but Frenchman and re-
. NAMED. I stayed because as a neWspa-
per reporter L have become accustomed to
/ sights which would shock other people, and
the Frenchman remained because he was q
/ Frenchman.
hardly know how to describe the dance
in such a way as to get the account printed
but it had a certain element Of vOluptuous
cucumber regret about it which I shall
never expect to see again. never have
seen the human form jOstled about SO
heartlessly. The girl was as pretty as {
/ poem by Lord Byron or the heroine OIL
"Lalla Rookh." but the style of the dance
/ itself made me blush more han have fOl
years. In the midst of antics she looked al
me askance. There ought to be some way
to put stop to this. An International ex-
hibition ought to be something to point tC
with pride in after years. 1 Immediately
walked out of the room and strOIIed to the
top of the EiffeI tower to cool my brow,
This tower has been referred to by thu
papers. Everywhere one goes he finds
miniature EiheI towers for sale. They arr
worked on hankerch iefs, printed on purses
and engraved on everything.
nj. Eiffel, who designed this great work
looks some as General Grant did at forty