Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-06

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methods OF doing these things generally.
nope mat America will adopt the Partisan
style OF street and that Paris will look IA
Vorably on our Yankee matrons.
NJ .al referred red before to the fact that the
french girls are pretty, according to my
yuosment, but the middle-aged, elderly
women do not equal those of America
Here the beauty of twenty is not followed
~ me Weil-retained good looks and gentle
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
lrosts come, like a maple tree in the au-
tumn.
AS write this my feet are sore from the
weary march over the great exhibition, and
yet have not seen a fraction of it. A
bright young American correspondent told
me on my arrival to visit as a peculiar feat
ure the concert and dance of the Algerians
ana did so. 1t is one of the most unique
things OF the show. 1t costs franc, butt
is worth moro 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 kneo high to this
great exhibit. tits barbaric. 1t is heathen-
lsh; 1t is unique, Ii a New York man
with money will take the troupe over to
ANYBODY. There are about twenty people
On the programme. including the orchestra
They are all sha es of color, from the char
coal to tae olive tinted dancers, and the
figures they cut would attract attention and
starlle the eye OF the entire Union. With
good advertising ana lithographs, they
would make much money and Offset the
continued success Of Buffalo GiN
The orchestra does not play so we'll as
Mr.. seldl or Patsey Gilmore. for the range
IS small ana the instruments are exceed
lngly tough. The middle man is an old po-
lygamous Algerian, who also plays green
corn stalk fiddle. On his let is a corpulent
woman, of say forty-tive. with black NAME
who MARBLES like woodpecker. A colored
man plays the bass drum. and some more
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 a girl
OF thirteen or fourteen, who dances a sword
dance. lnterspersed with barbaric yels by
the company. Then very pretty girl. with
dances a 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 and q
| Marseilles quilt. which she lays aside when
she begins. She also wears gold anklet=
| when the weather is cool, aid 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 a 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 re-
| manned. I stayed because as a newspa-
/ 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 a certain element OF voluptuous
cucumber regret about it which 1 shall
never expect to see again. 1 never have
| seen the human form jostled about so
! heartlessly. The girl was as pretty as
| poem by Lord Byron or the heroine OF
| "Lalla Rookh." but the style Of the dance
itself made me blush more than I 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-
hibiton ought to be something to point tic
with pride in after years. l Immediately
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 Eiifel towers for sale. They arc
| worked on hankerchiefs, printed on purses
and engraved on everything.
NJ. Eiffel, who designed this great work
looks some as General Grant did at forty