Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-30

,.erc Doors wlLnouu courtesy or IN
telligence. This is libel on American
education. The particular guard who ar
rested the Paraguayan is II. V. Davis, of
Versailles. His. He is graduate of a
school at Valparaiso, Ind, and has taught
school at the former place for seven years.
Unless he knows how to behave himself 10
would seem that his education was a poor
one
The guard did nothing but obey his or
ders, and the commissioner knew the rules,
for upon being stopped from leaving the
building with the property he went to OBJ
tain a permit, but could not find the prop
er officer Returning he declared he would
go anyhow, and thereby got himself ar
rested. If anybody was at fault it was the
official who made the rule not the guard
who obeyed orders This is what Commits
sioner St. Clair of the council of admins
tration, says, adding, however, that the
guard might have been so thickheaded
that he could not properly construe his or
ders, which is not probable from the facts
in the foregoing paragraph.
Moreover, the commissioner from Para
quay himself does not hold the guard re-
sponsible, but his superior officer. Some
of the papers here gloated with great glee
over the alleged fact that the commission
er knocked the guard down, a fact that
exists in somebody's imagination. The
sary, for later he did secure the required
permit. Some reparation, however. will
probably be given him by the council of
administration as balm for his wounded
feelings. The writer has yet to see any
one who does not speak in praise of the
painstaking courtesy of the much abused
Columbian guard.
In the California room in the Woman's
building is huge mirror covering half of
one large wall. The designers of the room
put 1t there to reflect the polished finish of
the paneling and the paintings framed in
the woodwork. But woman. lovely wo-
man, thinks differently What perfect
ly elegant place to see if my dress hangs
straight each one murmurs to herself
and slows up in her mad march in order to
promenade before it.
BraZil's buildingi is built after the French
renaissance style of architecture. 1t is COW
cred with delicate detail work. The large
dome is surrounded by four smaller ones,
and the walls of the building are almost
covered with sculptured work in staff. On
the outer walls of the building are twenty
medallions, each of which bears the name
of one of the twenty states which comprise
the Brazilian republic.
The army chaplains are the latest addi-
ton to the meetings now going on in the
Art Institute. The congress of Building
and Loan associations continues to discuss
subjects OF interest in that line, and its
proceedings when published will be good
reading for those who have money in such
institutions. The intercollegiate Prohi-
bitionists and the elocutionists also are
holding meetings.
The committee of the board of lady
managers upon the selection of ma
tional flower of which Mrs. Mary Cecil
Cantrall, of Kentucky, is the chairman,
has decided to open booth near the west
ern entrance of the Woman's building on
the morning of the 4th of July for the pur-
pose of receiving popular vote upon the
selection of national flower
1t has been determined to erect a model
or fac simile of the treasury building, 16
by S feet. of the Columbian souvenir coins,
under the dome of the federal building,
and a model of the Washington monument
under the clock tower of the great Manu-
features building. The model of the treas
ury building Will take about 100000 coins.
The directory has a barrel or SO of the
coins on hand.
Nothing in the woman's building is more
exquisite than a tiny carving in ivory in
the French section of Phryne. 1t is of the
sixteenth century, and the ivory has &C
quired the yellow tint of age, but no age
can ever destroy the exquisite pose of the
perfect form nor the beauty of the face,
half hidden by the rounded arm. 1t is
Phryne as she stood before her judges, who
themselvesfell victims to her charms.
Paid admissions to the fair yesterda,
aggregated lo7, $40.