Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-09-22

Brazilian artiss S, for instance, where
meritorious, are SO on conventional
lines. None have been able, appar-
emily, to Undue landscape with the
qualities that would make it typical of
the land. Some day great genius
will arise and found school, to earn
est followers of which the mountains
and rivers, forests and plains of equa-
torial chimes will appeal as they are,
distinct from the other regions of
earth. This will be happy time for
the nations OF the south.
AT the present time, through the
facilities afforded by the various eX-
hibits at the Worlds Fair, 10 is not "a
difficult task TO build up mental pict-
ure of South American scenes. While
the grandeur of primeval forests is
scarcely to be comprehended from
specimens of woods, or animal life
from cases of stuffed birds and beasts,
the mind helped by such paintings of
tropical landscapes are shown, or in
fluenced by memory OF southern
chimes, is able to construct by COM
posite Of impressions fair idea of
that which exists on the other side of
the isthmus.
Internationally the most interes ting
features of the South American ex-
hibits are objects representative OF the
fl, ra aud fauna of the various coun-
tries. In appreciation of the fact that
growth in manufactures and the arts
of beauty would not warrant serious
competition with lands long past the
primitive state, the various govern
ments have made prominent such pro-
ducts as are peculiar to them and
their neighbours The rubber of South
America, for instance, is used more
universally than the wheat OF the
United states C flee is consumed
everywhere, the demand being met
chiefly by South American growers.
With such vast resources, it is natural
the South American states should be
exporters of raw material rather than
manufacturers, at least until popula-
ton is greatly increased. SO it is that
natural products figure most largely
in the exhibits. Taking Brazil as
typical of the other countries of the
eastern coast, thing is lacking in
the display at the Worlds Fair.
Of pa ticular interest is the exhibit
of fine woods in the Forestry building.
Art and manufactures are shown in
the Manufactures building. The dis
play of products of the country in the
Agricultural building is one OF the
finest made by any of the nations.
From these exhibits and those in the
other South and Central American
states, an idea Z, f the characteristics
of the land can be obtained, of value
10 all who desire to rightly appreciate
the beauty and worth of tropical
countries.
Birds of brilliant plumage abound
in the great foests that border the
Amazon river, extending into the
country from this and other streams
Specimens of most varieties are shown.
Parrots of numerous varieties are
prominent The touran, with big
beak. and the umbrella bird, provid' d
with a feathery sun shade, are promi-
nent ip the exhibits.
A South American forest without
monkeys would not be typical. Some
are hunted for food by the natives
Others are domestlcated as pets. OF
the family of marmosets, peculiar 10
trorical Am erica, there are many vari-
cites. They are companionable Great
ures in domestication. Almost num-
berless varieties of this and other fam
lilies abound in the South American
forests.
OF the scenic beauties of the tropics
travellers have spoken. South Amer
lea, on and about the equator from the
Atlantic to the Andes and thence to
the Pacific, has been so thoroughly
explored that the Worlds Fair exhib-