The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-07-09
GLORY OF FRANCE.
To Be Seen at the Worlds Co.
lumbian Exposition.
PEOPLE WHO EXCEL In TIE AgTs

Magnificent Gowns and Other Artistic
Fabrica.ssns Charm the Visitor to the
French Pavilion in the AIanufactures
and Liberal Arts Bail1ing-Beausics OF
the Display Beyond Description.
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Il there Is any central fairy scene in this
Worlds Columbian fairy land Of fins
things it is the French section of the
Manufactures building. There are artists
in America. in England, in Germany,
Austria, Denmark, Italy; but the French
men is the artist OF artists, he has style,
8 method, finish all his own. He is in
imitable, unique The French are unap-
proachehle in the fabrication of fine things
TOR the home and the person. So far as
this exposition is concerned they excel in
nothing else. In machinery, Transports
ton, electricity, agriculture, they make
no impression whatever. In most of these
lines they lack originality and are mere
copyists. You may study the history Of
France without coming upon the record
of single great invention that has left its
impress upon the industries of the world.
If there is such product of the French
brain, am unable to recall it. The Ger
mans and their blood cousins, the English
and Americans OF Anglo-Saxon descent,
are the worlds inventors.
But in skiliful manipulation of all
known processes; in the creation of beau
tiful forms and com mhinatioDs OF forms and
colors; in the application of the best prin-
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fabrication, the French are the worlds gen.
ius. They are the japanese of the western
world, with ten times the range and five
times the art of the japanese of the ORR
ent. The similarity between France and
Japan you will notice in many ways when
you visit the exposition. Both have the
ightness of touch, the instructive COM
mand of color, the adaptation of forms
and shapes in wondrous variety and along
lines of exceeding boldness. Neither does
IS much with machinery as England or
the United States, both have lighter,
DETER hand-touch. There are national
characteristics which show in the men as
well as in the things which represent
them here; for the French and the Japa-
nese are alike polite, suave, almost blithe.
With them it is never any trouble Ito
show goods" They are patient with all
comers, whether prospective purchasers or
not. They have alike tho neat way of
capitalizing courtesy in trade with which
the British, the Germans and most Amer
leans are unfamiliar.
Without any doubt whatever France has
the show-piece of the Manufactures and
Liberal Arts department. Her pavilion
facing Columbia avenue and showing its
great arches and long line of caryatids
either side the central clock tower, is un,
rivalled among ell the national structures
in this palace of the nations. II presents
a series of show-windows in which some
Of the finest products OF French shops and
looms are 70 be seen. These invite one TO
enter, but rich and magnificent as is the
facade, attractive rs are the contents of
the outer galleries, they give but little
hint of thu glory of France to be found
within. Spread out over about three and
a half acres Of space are vistas, panoralnas
and agg-egations of things rich, rare and
beautiful such as are not to be seen else
where in this exposition, nor elsewhere in
the world.
confess my utter inability to describe
the beauties of this display. It is beyond
description. Go to the finest store, shop,
millinery or dressmaking establishment in
your city; To the best furniture store; the