Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-08-29

methods of doing these things generally.
/ hope that America will adort the Partisan
style OF street and that Paris will look IA
vorably on our Yankee lnatrons.
l referred before to the fact that the
French girls are pretty, according to my
judgment, but the middle-aged, elderly
women do not equal these 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-looking as the
frosts come, like map g tree in the au-
tumn.
AS write this my feet are sore from the
weary march over tie great exhibition, and
yet l have not seen a fraction of it. A
bright young American correspondent toll
me on my arrival to visit as a peculiar feat
ure the concert and dance of the Alserians,
and did so. 1t is one of the most urilue
things Of the show. 1t costs franc, but it
Is worth moro than that. After drinking
two cups of powerful coffee of the Tunis
variety, costing 10 centimes, l paid my
money and visited the concert and stomach
dance of Algeria. The hurdy gurdy OF the
ira smissicn country and the can-can OF
the continent are not kne0 high to this
great exhibit. 1t is barbalic. 1t is heathen-
ish. 1t is unique. II New York man
Win money VIII ldho tne troupe oNcr 10
America, he will make more money than
anybody. There arc about twenty people
on the programme, including the orchestra.
They are all sha es OF color, from the char
coal to the olive tinted dancers, and the
igures they cut would attrat attention and
, 5tarlle the eye of the entire Union. With
good advertising and Autographs, they
would make much money and Offset the
continued suct e5s of Buffalo Eill.
The orchestra does not play SO well as
Mr.. Seidl or Patsey Gilmore, for the range
is small and the instruments are exceed
ingly tough. The middle man is an old po-
lvgamous Algerian, who also plays green
corn-stalk fiddle. On his le t is II corpulent
woman, of say forty-five. with black name.
who MARBLES like woodpecker. A color.d
man plays the bass drum. and some more
colored people play on anything they can
get hold of that will make a noise.
small girl. in her stocking leet. then pro-
ceeds to dance. She is followed by girl
OF thirteen or fourteen, who dances sword
dance. lnterspersed with barbara, yells by
the company. Then very pretty girl, with
small hands and feet, in Turkish trousers,
dances collie dance, which meets with
much applause. 1t 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 aud a
Marseilles quilt which she lays aside when
she begins. She also wears gold anklets
when the weather is cool. and 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 Il 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 l re-
mained. l stayed because as a Eewspa-
per reporter have become accustomed to
sights which would shock other people. and
the Frenchman remained because he was a
Frenchman.
hardly know how to describe the dance
in such way as to get the account printed.
but it had u certain element OF voluptuous
cucumber Segret about it which I shall
never eNpeef TO see again. l never have
seen the human form jostled about so
heartlessiy? The girl was as pretty as a
poem by Lord Byron or the heroine OF
"Lalla Eookh." 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 imme ediately
walked out of the room and stroled 20 the
top oil the EifTel 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 hankercbiefs. printed on purses
and engraved on everything.
M. Eiffel. who designed this great work,
looks some as General Grant did at lofty.