Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
Brooklyn Eagle.

| Correspondence Brooklyn Eagle.
The exposition will be immense. 1t
seems to spread over the greater part of
| the southwestern portion Of the city,
and the Enclosure of the Camps de Mars,
as heretofore, will not be the chief at
| traction. That portion which will in
clude all the machinery, the show win
| dows Of the various domestic and for
eign productions and industries will be
| the least attractive, because, perforce, it
must be pretty much like all the former
| fairs. But it is the by and side shows
which will create interest and curiosity
the French are SO inventive and art1s-
tic in such things. The grounds in which
| will be erected a habitation and its
surroundings to represent every stage
of civilization and the gradual progress
of architecture will be of intense inter-
est; the rebuilding of quarters of
old medieval Paris is in good state of
progression and the study of contrast
between past and present will cause peo-
pie to loiter there In preference to the
exposition proper. Every one will want
to see the panorama in which one Will
be able to view all Paris of the present
day prOmenading on its accustomed
rounds along the Bouleyards des Italiens
and the Avenue de fOpera; all the
painters, authors, politicians, celebrities
Of every kind, will elbow each other in
that panorama and foreigners can there
be introduced to them without fear of
Being buttonholed 1t will be like sit
ting at grand feast, where substantials
are good and most acceptable to the
hungry, but where numerous side dishes
and deserts will regale capricious and
surfeited appetites, which only find en-
joyment in delicate and impromptu It'd
bits. The beauty show will be one of
them. Beauty shows are now the
fashion; they are taking place all over
the world. This one will be universal,
like the exposition. 1t will admit
women of all types and chimes to the
concourse-white, black and copper col
ored. For the purpose of equity, and
also of novelty, all the competitors will
be required to wear the same
style of dresses-the color only
will be optional. All Jewels
and other ornaments will be pro-
hibited; the verdict will be pronounced
on beauty unadorned And the anus
ing part of this show will be that uni
versal suffrage will decide. All specta-
put their votes in the urn. At the end
of the concourse the votes will be count
ed, and the beauty who has the majority
of. votes will be proclaimed the queen of
beauty. The first prize is 5000, the sec
ond $500 and the third 5000. And the
Tour d 'Elffel; what an attraction that will
be. 1t is nearly complied; it towers
above the city, graceful, airy, hardly
grand and not sublime. 1t is so light
and lace-like, SO proportionate, that it
strikes no one with awe, only with sim
pie admiration. 1t has been so much
talked about that doubtless many imag-
inc it overtowers the city. Those are
doomed to disappointment, for it looks
like an immense arrow shooting through
the clouds. However, its ascent will be
an event in ones life. No one before
will have been so high up in the world
upon what man has made. | have no
doubt that if the Tower of Babel could
be reproduced next to it it would sink to
in comparison.