The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-26
BEWITCHING DANCERS.
Beautiful Women Who Amuse Visitors
al the Paris Exposition.

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beautiful Women Who Amuse Visitors
al the Paris Exposition.
In this part of the explanade Of the ex-
position, says Paris letter, there is an
amusing population of Arabs, jews, colored
people, Moors-some loafiIg, others making
JeWeLry, pottery or baskets, others selling
Oaoouches, essence Of roses and all The
trumpery Of The oriental bazars. The air is
perIuned with incense and tobacco. and
the vague OdOrs Of the east. Here is a
uhlslan concert, where a company of very
ugly Je"esses sing through heir noses-a
miserable place, not worth visiting. Here
is an Algerian concert, which is ono of the
most fascinating corners OF this worlds
talr. Imagine a bright patio, decorated
win arcades and panels of tiles and ara
pesques or pale green and blue tones, form
ing coy cafe, with stools and tables with
| gay pOlychrome ceramic tops; to the left
lttle kitchen, where a colored man makes
Turkish coffee over burning charcoal in the
approved fashion; along one side Of the
room low stage, covered with cushions,
| on winch are seated Jewish and Arab dane
Ing women, colored men and women and
Arab musicians, all clad in the most brill
| lant costumes after their own hearts. The
orchestra consists of taraboukehs, or drums
made or eartheu pots with skin stretched
| over the orifce. lutte or eoud a tambour-
Inc, and shrlA hau-bois, which an Arab
plays with cheeks furously pulled out, pro-
ducing notes of rhy thm whose morbidness
hypnotizes.
Tue women, grave as idols, their fingers
stained with kohl or henna, accompany the
shrill air Of the hautbois with nervous
oeaolng of their tarabuukehs, and from
tline TO time, as if to break the hypnotic
! spall, a negro will shrek for few seconds
IKE steam whistle, causing his voice to
undulate between two notes Meanwhile
| one OF tne women dances-not as as people
dance in society, or even at the theater Int
the dance that represents the eternal amor
Gus theme on watch each nation has en-
proldered It's owu fancies, and Of which
eaoh nation, except ours, has made its ma
tlonaI dance. She Is q girl of u or Is. with
dark, melancholy ewes, regular features.
blue-0lack hair looped in braids over her
! cheeks. On her head she wears sort of
JsWeled inter, from which hang chains of
| silver meeting beneath her chm. and i)in-
Ing massive silver arabeSQues stubbed with
rough stones and serving as buckles for the
green silver-spau gled drapery over her
shoulders; her skirts of pale red and brown
nahg loosely down TO the ground, showing
! only her bare brown feet Her dancing is
mere cadenced movement, with long undu-
| IatlonS OF the body, or little convulsive
sIampings of the feet, accompanied by a
| writing and waving OF the arms, COZ
tnued to the finger tips, by a throwing
Dack oil the head, or by an extension Of the
hands forward in the gesture of entreaty.
the whole expressing with much modesty
and quite liberal mimicry a tender drama
OF passion, OF defense against the invisible
lover who speaks to her by the voice of the
hautboas, of refusal that means consent. of
consent that still resists, long pautomiae,
during which the supple and caressing BODY
OF the girl moves iucessa ltly and expresses
extreme emotions, which end in 3 terrible
charivari OF hautbois aid drums only when
both dancer and musicians are exhausted
by fatigue.
At the other end of the Esplanade des
InValdes, in the Javanese kampong. NAV
Dc seen dance of similarly exotic charac
ter. This village is inhabited by some
three-score Javanese workmen and their
! wives, who make hats and other small arti
cleS OF commerce. In one corner of the
village Is concert room of bamboo anC
thatch, and Javanese orchestra of drums
lutes and tympanums formed, some OF
bars Of metal and others of brazen pots
with h1s composed of two supposed hemis
pheres. The orchestra occupies the whole
of the back Of the stage, the men SQUAT.
! Strange
bell-like mus c, while man and a woman
perform a mimic dance, with writings anC
contortions of the body and limbs. les
graceful than those of the Arab dance, but
still curiously fascinating in their almost
hieratic gravity.
There are also four young dancing girls
belonging to the king who are types Of
Japanese beauty and the greatest coquettes
i'll the exhibition Their skins are brown.
the feet and legs up to the knees are Owed
saffron yellow, their bodies are clad witt
richly embroidered stuffs, their couture is
a wonde full gold helmet wrought into
arabesques of flows and animals, aud sur.
mounted by q crescent Of black feathers
their arms are loaded with bracelets, their
eyes heightened with an upturn tail of blue
| paint, and in the center Of their brows are
a blue circumfex accent and gold span
gle. These girls are beautiful with the
regular beauty of Indian idols, but they
chatter like magpies, make faces at the
public and scott at the dowdiness and puri-
tanism of the Parisiennes. One Of these
| little ladies', interviewed yesterday through
the Intermediary of an amiable Dutchman,
who has lived for years in the Indies, de-
clared that she found Paris rather slow,
and the Parisians austere and averse to
| luxury, aud the general aspect of things
| in Paris wanting in GLIDING and nm, bralIa