The record-union., 1893-08-08
BEST EXHIBIT OF THEM ALL
The Great American Girl as She Ma,


The Great American Girl as She May
Be Seen at the Fair.
The main exhibit at the Columb mbian
festival Is the American girl, according
to the New York COMMERCIAL 4 uUertiSer.
She permeates; where there are sights TO
be seen there you will find her. No part
OF the grounds can escape her stride of
conquest. She owns things. Mr.. Depew
told how he was surprised to observe that
all the people at the grounds were or
derly, polite and well behaved. 1t is
easily explained. In the presence of the
girl even the wooliest and widest men
are tanned 10 condition of society de-
corum. This warm weather has brought
them out, not in scattered groups, such as
were seen during the chilly opening
weeks, but by hundreds and thousands.
| They give life, color and animation to
every winding walk, form the happy
nucleus 10 each group of sight-seers in a
building, and when they sweep down the
plaisance among the sleepy maidens of
| the Orient they make man proud of his
country.
They came from all corners of this
favored land. When a gondola was ac-
cidentally upset the other evening and
tiIe passengers fell into the water, people
learned that the passengers were girls
| from Boston. If another gondola had
been upset the guards would have res
cued girls from Omaha, or Louisville or
Atlanta. They are here from all those
places ard great many more. The old
photographer rule OF picking out Bos-
ton girl by reason of her Eyeglasses and
/ cold fornallty and then selecting
maiden OF languid airs and tabbing her
| philadelphia" has been shattered at
Jackson Park. In this congress of thor
oughbred American girls. where ali ap-
pear tailor-made and trim, and where
each carries her good looks with cool self
reliance, there is no need of distinction
between San Francisco and New York.
1t is enough that they are American girls.
| They are there TO see the fair, and see it
| thoroughly, just as their fathers or broth
ers would see it. When they start out on
| a toraging expedition, for they travel in
gay platOons, they do not seem to be
haunted by any fear that someone will
annoy them. To be sure they expect to
be looked at, and they cannot prevent
people from admiring them, but that is
just as far as it goes.
Let 1t be known that the girls who have
come to see the fair are well bred and
have pretty well defined notions of what
to do under all circumstances. They may
stop a man to ask him the direction to a
| certain building or some particular eX-
hlblt. yet the wise man never attempts to
prolong the conversation. In the manu-
| 1actures building two girls with slashed
waists, serge dresses, four-in-hand era
watts and broad sailor hats were discuss
ing in animated fashion the Gobeln
tapestries. A young man in new suit
of clothes edged along to overhear their
talk. They probably knew more about
tapestries and French art than he did
about riding wheel, but somehow he
seemed TO think he was entitled to get
into the conversation. They're great,
eh!" he said in that off-hand manner
which showed that he had been around.
Well, he didn't even make a dent in the
dialogue. Neither appeared to know that
he was in the building until they moved
along to where he stood. and then one
said in that calm but crushing tone,
| "Kindly step aside" And, Of course, he
stepped aside.
The young women who are doing the
fair have no use for guides, escorts or
protectors There is something indeina-
BILE in the presence of the thoroughbred
young woman which causes men to
climb out Of her way and give her full
and triumphal passageway. Sometime
in group Of five or six you will find
one young man. He is not brought along
for any Irritation purposes, but merely as
courier and utility man. He looks after
the payment of the checks and carries the