St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-21
WORLDS FAIR Gait CHAT.
What Bright Young Lady Saw
at jackson Park.

at jackson Park.
Correspondence Daily Globe
CHICAGO, Aug. 1S.-For novelty go to
the Plaisanee, and goalune. The sights.
sounds. people. faces, costumes, acting,
aud the strange music. dancing and
Juggling cannot fail to interest il they
do not edify. From the Irish village
and beauty show, at the entrance. to
the American Indian eueampIhenr, at
the extreme, it is bewildering maze of
cosmopolitan people and objects. But
L reiterate, go alone, even If some de-
cided decentralization to social friends is
called for, which reminds me of a little
episode and sequel that / witnessed.
Resting after lunch on a piazza of the
bureau of public comfort, pleasant
young couple halted III front of me.
The lady was drawing on her gloves,
the gentleman lighting an latter din
ner," and thus she spoke:
Now, Mr.. x, know you do not
care to go iuto the woman's building
again. and l do. so you'll excuse me,
I'm sure, till. say, about five, aud you
can spend the afternoon in that stupid
machinery hall" and he was most
agreeable. IdIing that afternoon in the
Street of Cairo, [ was surprised to see
this maiden bargaining with donkey
driver, when. vino should come up but
Mr.. X himself. They both laughed.
But, at all hazards, do the Piaisance
alone if you can.
l was much entt rtained in the Irish
village the other day. There, for tie
time being. everybody is an freshman
and is taken for one, and a New Yorker
that was with me said that was the
place he came when he got homesick.
Lady Aberdeen's cottages are typical of
Killarney, but the iolIIest part is the
oDen-air concert, given at the base of
Barney Castle. Here Patsy Brannigau
dances his jig. With his green nose
and tie, tan trousers, "rOund head"
light hair and grinning face, he con-
torted his limos in most fantastic
manner. 1t captured the humorous
crowd. Finally, at his request, an Old
Irish woman was assisted to the plat
form. and she danced 4 Jig to as livery a
measure as Patsy himself. su
Another place che likes to visit alone,
the beauty show. | haveiI't heard how
this affected the lady managers on their
duty trip through Midway, but If they
said aught against it, it wasithrough
supreme jealousy, for there are some
very charming young women there,
especially Fatl a, of the Egyptian
halem. She is Il nineteenth century
Cleopatra, aud has a bit of a temper
Somebody asked her the other day. what
part OF Chicago she came from, and the
scorn that her whole counCenanee ex-
pressed would have wilted any.ordiuary
Antony. Some of the maids are de-
cidealy real representatives OF their
countries, and those that are not deserve
all the compliments they get. so sue
ceSStHi are they in p0rtraying IheddeaL
Down in Old Vienna is the brightest
kind OF little maiden named Virginia
Malauf you should hear her speak it,.
who, as you wend your way through the
quaint streets. wayIays you with ::
''Neece Iadee. coome und | Weigh YOU
1Ou neece ladee. c0ome.' And the
dirty little maid Of seven or less Wen
nese summers Municipalities the scales,
and HatterS you 70 ali excess of seven Or
eight pounds for ''0nly feeve cints."
A little boy over IN the aquarium of
the fisheries building one day got very
''ishy" idea of things. Slraddling the
baluStrade that surrounds the pend in
the center of tile building was five
year-old, very diligently watched by
his mother and nurse. A movement too
much to tile leeward and in he went
The fishes were not more frightened
than the child. and he will not be likely
to forget the ''wendr0us fair as long as
he lives.
have lunched in the fisheries,
the horticultural, The electricity,
the WOman's; taken bread and milk
with a friend that was more for
mind than body i'll the Yelling
toms, dined sumdiuously TAT another's
eXpenSe) in the Marine cafe, taken a
cup OF not coffee to the music OF the
Hungarian band and in the Frence res
taurant; in fact, have sampled almost
everywhere {ineiuding the agricultural
free lunchesl, tut can't find the place
where you get an electric lunch' that
lady kindly recommended to Ile the
other morning. MARY PEARL DAY.