Montgomery County sentinel., 1889-05-24
The Maryland Exposition.
A Display of Maryland Beauty.

There will be ponderous machinery there
and agricultural implements by the acre
There will be parades and races, and sham
battles and bombardments. There will be
blooded stock, aud cattle with pedigree as
long as that of the Highland Chief, who
traced his lineage back to the deluge, when
his ancestors had beat of their own. There
will be Cottswold sheep and Berkshire pigs,
and may be some OF George Colton's game
chickens. There will be oyster exhibits and
fish exhibits and game exhibits, and exhib.
its of minerals and of timber, Of fruits and
of vegetables, of grain and of grasses, while
all around aud about on the shelves of the
Exposition Building you will see specimens
| of quilting and needlework, peering through
| vistas of jars and cans of home. made pickles
and jellies put up at the firesides of Mary
land homes by the hands of her fair daugh
ters. But the crowning glory of the dis
play will be the myriads of beautiful women
who will crowd the grounds during the
progress OF the Fair What sight will
greet the eye on the 9th day of September
next, when the beauty and fashion Of Mary
| land appears 10 encourage by their presence
and reward by their approval the efforts of
the earnest and energetic gentlemen to whose
labors We are looking for success in this en-
terprise. Every section of our State will
| send such a wealth of loveliness as our own
daughters of Montgomery, rich in the birth
| right of Maryland women will lend the
charm OF presence to the scene, will dazzle
the eyes Of the beholders. From that beau
| tiful valley where the turbulent Monocacy
brawls and to the blue Catoctin peaks Fred
erick's fair daughters are coming in all the
pride OF their youth and beauty. The fair
ones whose light footsteps press the lime
stone ridges of Western Maryland those
splendid girls W hose bloom and brightness
are drawn from the health giving breezes
that cool the hoary tops OF the Alleganies
are coming too. The dark.eyed graceful
daughters Of Southern Maryland in their
queenly beauty will lend their presence to
swell the thrOng, while Eastern Shore, that
abode OF happy homes and generous acres,
will send a galaxy of beauty and bright
ness, as plump as their own oysters and rs
sweet and tender as their own peaches that
may contend against any and all claimants
Tor the girde of Venus.
| All Baltimore, you must look well to
your laurels. You have long borne the palm
ior beautiful ladies, but let your regal beau
ties look to it that they are not outshown
by the lovely daughters OF rural Maryland
who will attend the great exposition The
bellies OF Eutaw Place must assert them
selves 10 hold the need of brauty. The
stately ladies of North Charles street may
| be called on to- surrender their proud pre-
eminence. The refined and graceful women
that have conferred on Baltimore her title
OF the "Home OF Beauty" must be prepared
to defend their claims to pre- eminent love
| illness. Ladies of Baltimore we warn you
| in time. You must attend this Exposition
costumed in your most bewltching attire.
You must cultivate the graces OF manner
for which you are so famous, Tor on the 9th
| day OF September next YOU will find at the
Pimlico Fair Grounds some thousands OF
hearty, happy, wholesome country girls
with rosy lips, blooming cheeks, liquid
bright eyes aud most rounded symmetrical
forms, able 10 contend in the lists of beauty
with any and all the heather Goddesses
that were ever called beautiful in the an.
nails OF Mythology.
! This will be such display Of beauty
such dress parade of high bred, refined
and bewtching women as has never before
assembled on this continent. and we cor
daily invite the sons and daughters of our
sister States to be with US during the Expo.
sitOn to witness that we speak the truth. We
do not speak boasttully Of the grace, the
gentleness, the refinement and beauty OF the
daughters of Maryland. They are beautiful
because the Lord intended they should be-
He gave them the rich soil and the deep
waters in which the greatest gastrono mic
! luxures Of life are 10 be found, and the
Maryland girl simply obeys the destiny de-
creed for her by the Almighty when she
stands in the unparalled splendor of her
beautiful presence and parayzes the mortal
| man that gaZes on her face.