Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-06-23
W rld's Fair Letter,

JACKSON PARK, CHICAGO, June 49,
People are saying more ugly things about
the infanta since her departure, especi-
ally because of her snub to Mrs. Potter
Palmer. They say she accepted her in
vitation supposiug she was the wife of
Hon. T. W. Palmer, but when she found
she was the wife of a hotel.keeper, she
left her house without lunching. When
the concert was rendered in her honor
she declared che didn't want to go in
there but did want some beer. They
took her to a restaurant and she drank
three or four glasses of beer, put her feet
up on a chair, smoked a cigarette of her
W make, remained but a few moments
and acted generally like an ill-bred man.
On the way to one of her receptions,
accompanied by the Spanish consul, the
carriage was not large enough to take
the party of four with the comfort she
desired, and too impatient to wait for
another, she commanded the consul to
get up with the driver. and he obeyed.
Polite society adds: ''What could you
expect of such q creature" Some say
she is only of illegitimate birth, anyway,
and is ostracised at home because of the
fact being we'll known. She was a draw.
ing card at the fair, however, and her
popularity, judged by the thousands who
craned their necks to see her, ia ten
times greater than that of Ben Harrison
who came and went without attracting
special attention. The remark was heard
on every hand yesterday, when the sug'
gestion was made, "Let us 60 to Indiana
and hear Ben Harrison at the opening"
II have seer and heard him lots Of
times" Comment is useless-people are
built that way.
People generally are enthusiastic, es-
pecially over the streets of Cairo, and in
asmu'h as I had not seen the temple, [
went again. I was interested in the
mummies CT Egyptian kings who were
called to their homes 1000 years ago, and
in the fortune-teller who certainly read
the past correctly and promised much
Tor the future; but the dancing Of the
temple girls I found was the principal
attraction. I asked one of the attend
ants who, from his complexion was an
Egyptian, to tell me Of the meaning of
the dance, the principal feature of which
Is movements of the lower part of the
body strongly suggestive Of sexual OK
element eliminating in the highest
estacy. There is little movement Of the
chest or shoulders, and the feet attract
no attention, but the muscles of the
abdomen rise and fall and are thrown
forward and backward and into all
possible positions consistent with the
idea OF closely clinging the principal
point of interest. These motions Of the
body are accompanied by music, while
line is kept by the dancers fingers and
thumbs on which there are plates Of
metal. The dancers are decently clad
and nothing impure is intended in the
dance.
After the sun worshippers came All
era OF Phalic worship, and there was as
great controversy over the question
whether the male or the female should
receive the greater honor as there ever
mas been over any other religious ques
oon. The male was held to be the
representative of all creative power and
therefore the greater. The female was
ne'a to be the great receptive power