Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-11-10
THE WORLDS FAIR.
WHAT THE COLUMBIAN EXHIBi.
TION WILL DO FOR AMERICA,
1t Will Far Surpass the Paris Exhi.
bition in Artistic Interest-The
Most Beautiful Spectacle
OF Our Generation.

X0E confidently assert, on TIN
NM evidence of all the mos
Y Y experienced judges of AR
whom it has been possible
for US to consult, that the Chicago Ex-
hibition will far surpass even the Paris
one of 1889 when considered in its en-
tirety and for its artistic interest. A
much more beautiful, scholarly and mon
umental type of architecture has been
adopted for its main buildings; acces
sorry works of an ornamental kind will
be more numerous, more imposing, and
more original, while at least equally ar
tistic in character; greater care is being
taken that harmony of effect shall not be
injured by the aspect of minor works of
utility or decoration; and the neighbor-
hood of the great lake, and the novel
and sk;llful way in which wide expenses
of water and varied plantations have
been made the basis of the plan of the
grounds themselves, will much more
than compensate for the absence of a
rushing river like the Siene and DOM
mating hill like the Trocadero. The
Eiffel Tower is a marvellous, an interest
ing, and hardly an ugly structure; but
it is not an artistic structure. 1t did not
conflict with its surroundings at Paris.
But anything resembling it-anything
remarkable chiefly for size or for me
chauical ingenuity look pain.
fully out of place on the Chicago
grounds. This fact suffices to prove
their higher degree of beauty; and the
fact that no conspicuous structure APP
pealing in any way to mere curiosity, or
to the love of the new or the marvellous,
has been contemplated by the authorities
at Chicago, proves how seriously aud
wisely artistic spirit is controlling the
great enterprise.
Those who fail to see the exhibition OF
1893 will fail to see the most beautiful
spectacle which has been offered to the
eyes of our generation. But those who
have time to see only its general aspect,
without studying any OF its collections
wonderfully interesting though these
will be--will have seen the very best OF
it.
When we remember what great i'm
pulse was given to the popular love of
art by the collections shown in the ex-
hibition of 1876, what may we not ex-
pect as result of the stately, beautl-
full, and truly poetic panorama OF art
that will be unrolled before the eyes Of
the Nation in 1882 1t will show for
the first time, to scores of thousands OF
Americans who have never travelled
abroad and can scarcely hope to do so,
what is the meaning of the word beauty,
what is the significance of the word art.
1t will convince them, as nothing else
but long and intelligent foreign travel
could, that beauty is an enjoyable
thing, that art is thing worth striving
for and paying for. Indeed, no amount
of foreign travel could teach this lesson
so clearly as 1T will be taught to the
average American by the plain fact that
all this stately spendor was thought
worth getting and worth paying for by
hard.headed American business men, aud
for merely temporary purpose. One con
stantly hears expressions of regret that
buildings and sculptures SO costly INA
beautiful should be destined to last for a
few months only. But, in truth, their
transitory character will vastly augment
their missionary power. Even thc most
Ignorant may dimly understand that II is
worth while to take pains and spend