Western Kansas world., 1893-07-22


drink cup of the most delightful coffee
at the hands of the pretty-and they are
pretty-Haytian colored girls.
N. B. These Haytian colored girls
are not all from Chicago either.
On Monday, the third, or rather you
could best remember it as the day be-
fore the Fourth, as the crowds had be-
gun to pour in from every place on cut
rates, 1 had begun to feel tired. but
where there is SO much to see and one
has ''not very long to see it In" one does
not like to sit down to rest. So went
to the quarter foreign buildings.
In many of these buildings, and this
is true of many state buildings, you find
very little but you want to see them any
way. The style of architecture and the
furnishing of the rooms is pretty to look
at. Then they make delightful places
in which to rest. You find couches,
diyans and rocking chairs, and here are
the places where you miss your friends,
After long walk dropped into rock
ing chair on the balcony of the Cana
dian building where could watch the
boats on the lake and could feel the
spray on my face-a delightful place for
hot day; but the air was little chill,
l dare not risk rest there without an
extra wrap, which did not have. AS 1
was leaving, a lady near me asked: care
YOU alone, if you are might go with
you? 1 can't enjoy anything bymyself."
was glad to have her, SO we went
over to Victoria building. In the front
is a fac simile of "The Albert Memorial" !"
erected by the queen in honor of her
prince consort. This was at the Cen
tennial. The building is richly furnish
ed, but contains few exhibits. At main
entrance you come upon the huge chest
used in ancient times for a receptacle
for jewels and valuables of every descrip-
ton. A guard was always stationed
here. The valuable velvet carpets were
rolled UP to keep them from being walk
ed upon. "a sample" remarked to
my new friend "of Victorian economy"
Now, if this were an American ex-
hibit it would not he so, everything
would go. eyes," she replied with a
smile, "this is so with you Americans,
every thing is free" The emphasis on
the you was enough. had to apologize
to the English woman much to her
amusement.
We visited the Norway building-a
reproduction of a church. 1t is place
for rest; lovely spot on the lake shore
in little grove. The wood is SO beau
| tifully carved. 1t was done in sections
and shipped here ready to be put to-
gether. So unique and pretty is it that
you are glad that it is upholstered and
that there is nothing in it except the
chairs.
The Ceylon building is place where
one might stay many hours if one had
been more fortunate than we were. We
were late and the attendants began clos
ing up soon after we went in. So Cey-
lon comes in for another visit.
I hope you will be in the vicinity of
the German building for their evening
chimes. You like the bells? To me
there is something in the music of bells
that never feel in any other music.
We entered the building and the man
ager treated us SO very courteousIy that
we could ask any thing we wished to
know. He told us the history of the
chimes which are from the Emperor,
and of the building, and SO many things
about the German exhibit. was struck
with the solidity and beauty of the
building and asked about it, thinking
what pity if it was only for short
time, and then to be torn down. But
the manager explained by saying that
the building had to be solid to hold the
bells which are of many tons weight and
that it was to be bought by German
syndicate and used as German club
house.
A grand thing that for Chicago's Ger
man people. There will be no prettier
place in the city.
The exhibit here was different from
any yet seen. By the main entrance in
an alcove set apart for it you find the
story the Christ told, in statuary, paint
ing and embroidery.
The Christ and the Madonna the main
subject at all times.
If you study these you will be inter-
ested in seing the beliefs of the artists
in little particulars. And you will be
led to wonder why certain one holds a
certain belief and by what lines of reas-
oning he proves it. As instance Just
one little detail, which interested me,
and followed the idea through the art
lists work. In the crucifxion one artist
believes that two nails pierced the feet |
of Christ; another believes that only
one held the two feet to the cross.
These works are so fine that YOU are
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