Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-10-05
A Visit to the st. Louis Exposition.

EDITOR OF WoMAN's CHRONICLE: St. Louis in
deed aspires when she presents herself as an aspr
ant for the Worlds Fair of 1892 This is no re-
Election on st. Louis at all, but the magnitude of
her exposition is great enough to crafty the am
btion of any one save the covetous spirit, which
gazes loungingly at the white elephant and refuses
to be comforted.
Compared with the annual exposition presented
so many successive years in Chicago, it is enough
to make that ealous-pated sister take to her orbs
more emerald tinted hue than she may be ex-
pected to enjoy.
Every artistic device imaginable has been in
vented to represent mercantile enterprise, from
cave and archway of cracker-boxes and pyramid
in baking-powder cans, to the silk weaving machine
and the glass-blower's art
The air is redolent with the aroma of freshly
Drowned coffee and hot popcorn, aud the bazaars
of fine furniture, dry goods, millinery and furs are
such maryels of artistic arrangements as to defy
description
The still life effect of all this is done away with
in the presence of the figures in wax, which stand
about in the booths to delude the visitor and arrest
the attention. Wax policemen stand on guard so
startlingly natural and withal so exquisitely at
tired that you not sure but you will be nabbed
and handcufed for no offense but your rude stare.
Wax ladies in one of the laIge booths, which rep
resents everything from dry goods to cook-stoyes,
sail back and forth on a track and bow at you at
certain corners where the underneath machinery
designates-bow at you on no provocatlon what
ever, save, perhaps, an invitation to transfer your
gaze to their apparel, which is in the latest style.
Wax ladies with hectic flush and bright eyes;
ladies with retrousse noses and naughty and ex-
elusive air ladies with impossible coffeurs, re-
volvng to display fur nantes and the latest thing
in tea gowns.
In another booth are wax bakers removing
"truly' bread from ''sure enough ovens-all
cold. to suit the temperature of the bakers con-
stituton.
A crockery and glassware exhibit is enhanced
by the presence of dining, the table being spread
with everything costly and artistic. A richly at
tired hostess sits by the side of her little daughter
with an expression of hospitality so inviting that
the glass case appears to be the only impeachment
to your joining her at her repast. Mine host, in
full dress suit, stands up and carves rarely and
perfectly done roast of beef-carves the live long
day-to the motion of machinery and in the next
room dusky cook stlrs the soup-kettle with
wooden spoon, and wears an expression of rare
solicitude.
The Woman's Humane Society have fine ex-
hbt-one of the most notable things being the
rails, slaves, iron bars and ragged pieces of wood
taken away from inhuman drivers on the streets,
each piece tagged with the date of the occasion,
penalty, etc., with degree of conciseness that
shows the St. Louis women to be in no wise be-
hind in the current of humane society work which
is sweeping over the country.
The Missouri immigration Society has an exhibit
calculated to lure the most incredulous within the
boundaries of this thriving State and the granite
ware people have built a pyramid of kettles and
pans to the very DOME
Today professions of little bright-faced children,
marching two and two, follow the gentle faced
sisters in and out, around and between the asles