Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14


methods of doing these things generally.
hope that America will adopt the Partisan
style of street and that Paris will look Ia
vorably on our Yankee matrons.
I referred before to the fact that the
French girls are pretty; according to my
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, 1t 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-looking az the
frosts come, like maple tree In the au-
tumn.
As Iwrite this my feet are sore from the
weary march over the great exhibition. and
yet have not seen a fraction of 1t. A
bright young American correspondent told
me on my arrival to visit as peculiar feat
ure the concert and dance Of the Algerians,
ind I did so. 1t is one Of the most unique
things Of the show. 1t costs franc. but 1t
Is worth more than that After drinking
two cups of powerful coffee OF the Tunis
variety. costing Is confines. 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 high to this
.sh. It is unique. If New York man
with money will take the troupe over to
America, he will make more money than
anybody. There are about twenty people
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
a. Dat g. 10
is small and the instruments are exceed
ingly tough. The middle man Is an old po-
tygamous Algerian, who also plays q green
corn-stalk fiddle. On his left is a corpulent
woman. Of say forty-fve. with black name.
who MARBLES like a woodpecker. A colored
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 q girl
of thirteen or fourteen. who dances asword
dance. lnterspersed with barbaric yells by
the company. Then very pretty girl. with I
small hands and feet. in Turkish trousers.
dances q 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 attired In cool
white costume of mosquito netting and a
Marseilles quilt. which she lays aside when
she begins. She also wears gold anklets
when the weather is cool. and q 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. and when she
dances she does so with great vigor. Sew
eral people from America went away while
she danced. but Frenchman and I re-
manned. stayed because as q newspa-
per reporter have become accustomed to
sights which would shock otner people. and
the Frenchman remained because he was
Frenchman.
hardly know how to describe the dance
in such q way as to get the account printed.
but 1t had certain element OF voluptuous
cucumber regret about 1t which I shall
never expect to see again. I never have
seen the human form jostled about so
heartlessly. The girl was as pretty as q
poem by Lord Byron or the heroine OF
-Lalla Rookh.' but the style Of the dance
itself made me blush more than have for
years. In the midst of antics she looked at
me askance. There ought to be some way
to put stop to this. An International ex-
hibition ought to be something to point to
with pride in after years. I mediately
walked out of the room and strOlled to the
top of the Eiffel tower to cool my brow.
This tower has been referred to by the
papers. Everywhere one goes he finds
miniature Eiffel towers for sale. They are
worked on hankerchiefs. printed on purses.
and engraved on everything.
M. Eiffel who designed this great work.
looks some as General Grant did at forty