The Irish standard., 1890-09-20
a SYMPHONY TN CEREALS.

a SYMPHONY IN CEREALS.
An Attornay's Description Of the Corn
Palace and It's Beauties.
IN the Farmers Institute, published
at Mason City, appears the following
from Sioux City. being novel and in
terestlng description Of the Corn Palace
written by j II. Quick of this city:
The Corn Palace is now in process OF
construction and by the time this
reaches your readers the work will be
we'll under way. A great mosque.
elegant in. form, broad. lofty and in
every way spacious in dimensions, is
built of-what? Simply rough lumber!
It is an architectural anomaly.
In place Of the piles Of lumber are
such quantities Of Heterogeneous truck
that it seems dozen agricultural fair
exhibits reduced to chaos. Piles OF
cornstalks, and Of corn in the ear In
different colored lots-1n one pile red
ears, in another yellow. in another
white, or blue or ''calico corn or pop
corn, are daily deposited on the grounds.
Here come stacks of sorghum and
wheat and barley aud rye. Quantities
of millet and other marsh grass appear.
Every kind of grass or cereal is brought
here from all the surrounding country,
and the wonderful task begins
Over yonder Is a little buzz saw run
bv an electric motor. 1t has a hopper
like a corn shelter. and a man feeds it
with ears Of corn. They come out
pearly split in the middle, just as
long cucumber might be sliced in two
with knife. Near him is another
man at machine. similar to those
which grocals use for cutting plug
tobacco. He is cutting off traverse
sections of ears of corn IN cylindrical
blocks of uniform length. These slabs
and blocks play an important part in
rendering beautiful this Temple of
Ceres.
You think SONS of the patterns done
in cut shingles Oh q leen Anne cottages
nova days pretty, don't your Yet on
the Corn Palace they are put to shame
by designs ia blocks and slabs of corn
on backing Of pine. A man nails on
four half ears side By side, with their
fiat side to the wall. and thew make a
square. These run up aud down. Run
the next square borjZ )ntally and YOU
have another square of different ap-
pearance. cover large space with
these alternating squares or diamonds
and curious imbrlcated appearance is
given which is wonderfully beautiful
even when done in only one color. But
imagine the gorgeous effect when all
tbs colors found in corn are used b7
people who are the greatest masters OF
such decorative art in the world.
Diverge these slabs Of corn from q
common center and you have a star,
and nothing but the figures in a kaleid-
oscope can VIE with the designs here
found in either number or beauty.
Still more striking effects are produced
by the use of the cylindrical blocks.
Each block end shows the white cob
with ring Of red or blue or yello"
around it. You see at q glance now
this form lends itself to decorative pur-
poses.
Flags in red, white and blue, a 10
inch cannon, yellow as brass outside
and blue as steel within; here you
think surely some other substance has
been used. Step closer and you will see
that the brass and steel are made by fit.
ting kernels Of corn closely together
and fastening each kernel in place with
a tack. There are rich brown spaces
covered with fax showing the balls.
Others are bright green-these are
cane. The rays Of yellow light shoot-
inc out from the SUN up there are vel
low cornstalks
Golden wheat and rye and millet and
barlev are used in thousand WAYS.
Not in geometrical patterns alone
C. endscapes of astonishing beauty are
done in natural colors by the fair artists
of Sioux City; but instead Of oils and
water colors they are hay and corn and
grass. And they need nothing else. for
their SUCCESS is perfect,
ALI these thinga have been done in
former years, but the Palace Of 1890
promises to be a surprise to Sioux City
people even. 1t will be 264 by 26t feet
in size, twice as large as last years
Palace. Its stvle will be graceful and
beautiful in the highest degree. It's
decorations will exceed anything OF its
kidd ever seen. 1t will be flied with
exhibits from all over the country. It
will have an auditorium seating 1000
people. Traiued musicians will occuDv
the stage. Its ventilation will be per-
feet, but daylight will be excluded and
it will be lighted by thousands of cleo
trio lights.
When the visitor enters he will be
struck with wonder. He will LOOK
across a clear space of nearly hundred
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