The Progress., 1893-07-08

WORLDS FAIR, July b Special - {
There is an Old saying that all the world I
loses lover. This may be true, but
shouId a good deal rather risk my rcputa-
Ion for accuracy on the statement that
all the world loves baby. We see tins at
the exposition, as we see il everywhere. \
day or two ago ] was walking along the
plaisance. saw group Of people ahead
oC me surrounding some object that had ,
gxcitcd their interest. On drawing near
7 found ten or fifteen ladies and gentle
men gathered about an Algerian woman
Who had in her arms n dirty-faced, scahhy
little fellow Of one or one and half years
He was dressed in the garb of his native
land. of course, and was not pretty; but he
was an infant, and foreign ln-
FAINT ut that, and the ladies ana
gentlemen who ST Topped for a look at him
evidently thought him very cute and nice,
for the women kissed his face, dirt ana
all, and the men gave him nickels and
dimes.
This was a typical incident of the plais-
ance. There are a number of foreign
babies and children here, and they attract
a great deal of attention. In the Esqul-
maux village there are two or three juve-
niles, fat and greasy little persons with
black, stringy hair and unlovely eyes ana
IN appetite for American quarters. lhey
have been fed on sweetmeats and popcorn
and cake from the luncheon boxes ot VS.
itors and other goodies till II fear they are IN
no fit condition to go back to theirnorthern
II H.. la TarnN a
their simple life amid the snowdrifts and
1 icebergs.
The Soudanese children attract GOOD
daaI of attention, too, but for some reason
or other no one wants To pet hem. they
,year GREAT shocks of hair on th@ tops oi
their heads, thick as mats apd causing
them TO rc,rmhle small editions oi
paderevski Possibly these punches oi
hair discourage familiarity on the part oi
visitors. One could imagine almost any
thiu,f of thos,, top-knots, though 1t mlgh'
be wise not To permit curiosity 10 he ioi'
lowed by investigation.
Now that the Javanese Village Is open TO
the world large number of visitors WITH
an the quaint enclosure inquire for the III
tIe woman whose heart has been made sad
ny the loss of her baby since she came tc
America. The little wOman's name is
Mic. and she is not much bigger than
mint of cider, with tawny hair and great
hstrous ewes. 1t is worth going miles tc
see how the women of Christendom sym
nathize with her They have heard OF her,
far and near, as the woman whose DaDy
died on the plaisance, and they want 70
saw n kind word to her and buy something
of her. Indeed, it is the baby, aii'e oi
dead, that makes the whole world Kin.
a. .N.arTg ~
honey village. There is DahOmey baby
,nd eyerv one wants to see it. But every
!. one doesn't The mother of this black lit
tIa savage is an Amazon of the Amazons
She is six feet tall, weighs probably 2U
mounds. and there isn't an ounce OF super
auous flesh on her Eody. She Is muscular
gctiye. energetic, sometimes feroclous
esnecially when the Hwful orchestra INA
nlavs in the theater sets up It's Wllues
i howl and the drums are beat most VICIOUS
s Iv Then the blood is stirred IN ne
= Amazonian veins, she brandishes her wa
- club with mighty swings, shows her teetl
:. as IL she would like to eat some one allVe
and lets off whoop of savage denanct
Rut she is n woman, nevertheless; an
" when they send word to her that her naO
% has reused from its slumber III IN
st tbatoLed mud-hut down in the corner
ID the corral she drops her war CLUB ana I've
p voice and starts on run TO give DAD
III comfort from the ample breast OF her STA
wart body. This Dahomey BABY Thrive
Is and grows fat, notwithstanding the wa
,g like tendency of its mother; ana ~ II,
,g well. quite source Of revenue 10 I'll
he Frenchman who set up this village lro'
>; the west coast of Africa. So many vlslto
want to see the little savage bale thaI
...f Tan ~
charged for some time, and the number
- visitors must amount to live or SIX hiil
~ dred in day. A baby that can lie on |
~ hIock hack and sleep and occasional
or wake up to howl for its Amazonian mot
IN or and fight off a flea or two, and at u
y. same time earn forty or fifty dollars da
es, ia a pretty smart sort of an infant, even
'rt II doee come from the benighted land
ed savagcry.
I'M In the Dahomey village is a little chi
-h. about five wears old He is as ugly as
n; and he doesn't wear much 20 hlue
nd bidensuess. But with all his ugliness
body he seems to have an amiable olspo
IT'S tion. for the other day he fell violently
1m I'm love with pretty little American girl al
Ia ~. ran up to her and threw his black, DO
rs. arms around her. Oddly enough the lit
ed American was not a bit frightened, .
md laughed and thought the performance
eft good Joke, enjoying it as well as did
large number of people who witnessed
Possibly she thought savage alteration
our her civilized charms was quite the proI
sed thing. and this tribute thereto thou
rrn somewhat too demonstrative was not
. be despised or rejected.
If you want to see babies at their De
and the popular love for them at its swe
est pitch, leave the plaisance and the s
\ ages and go into the Children's buiidi
which stands just south of the ouiIal
devoted to woman. L don't know wh'
was that first thought of this idea of h
ing a children's building here at the II
but whoever she was-of course 1t wa
'if sbe-is deserving monument. IL
L.. one of the happy ideas of the CoiumD 0
''c' exposition, and is working out better u
.os its best friends could have hoped for.
idea was, you will remember, to nav
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