The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1893-09-30

both hemispheres as were the merry
makers who danced upon this Column
| bian festival: There were noises Of
all kinds only worthy in many instances
Of being called music from the fact of
| q fairly correct idea Of time to which
the dancers paid more or less attention
in their strange dancing. There were
American Indians, ESqufmaux, ,iDaho-
meyans, Mexicans, Nubians, Lapland-
ers, Irish jig dancers, Turks, Algerians,
Syrians, Egyptians, Hindoos and many
other nationaKties represented in the
motley crew who amused an American
audience packed into a sH1aH room as
closely as sardines in box: One could
see newspaper men here in boxes who
hailed from almost all points of the
compass Of the four corners of the
earth. Over on the stage were two
princes of India hobnobbing with Clti-
zen Francis Train, the best advertised
man in America. Close, to one of the
princes sat an American. typewritist,
regular worker in Midway Plaisance,
gowned in a fetching costume Of black.
She did her best to win Ineiin upon
a brief acquaintance and il we hear one
of these days of lucky American
typewritist marrying This nobs OF In
dia," we will love to jot down In OUR
note books another instance of the in
fal1fbihty Of Chicago nerve and Yankee
enterprise. The average, "pencil push
err is credited with possessing the
chemically pure article Of gall of the
most pungent variety, but even the vet
Grams in newspaperdom sighed that
night for the privilege of sitting at the
young lady's feet and take lessons in
the noble calling Of embracing the
main chance or perhaps the last chance.
The throng included many colors of
skin and raiment, a babel Of tongues,
but manifested an abundance of good
nature and a ready obedience to the
programme.
One Of the most pleasing numbers
on the list was the dancing Of the jap
anese ladies'. seven in number, much
In the style of the three little maids
from school who perform in the Mi
kado. The ,Dahomeyans gave their
| war dance to the beating of tom-toms
ana other devices which make life and
night hideous. They circle round their
musicians much in the style Of the
American Indian, but the African ma
ture manifested itself very strongly in
the vigor and. enthusiasm of their dane
ing. When they got fairly warmed up
1t was almost impossible to stop them.
The manager shouted and waived his
! arms, but all to no purpose. They
had just got down to business and
would probably have kept it up all
night with fendish yelling, if it. had
not been that Frenchman who has
spent forty years among them hap
| tn ha nd NV
| appeal finally quoted them down.
| One old Dahomey warrior or ANA
zon Of the kings body guard kept up
were quieted down. It is we'll known
since the French conquest Of Daho-
mey that the old Greek story of the
Amazon's or female warriors had some
foundation in fact. The choicest and
bravest warriors Of the king of Daho-
mey who are alone entrusted with
guarding the loyal parsonage from
harm, are huge women Injured to all
hardship and brutality by special train
ing for that purpose. All the dances
were interesting because they were
evidently exactly true to the original
and many Of them were entirely diff
ferent from anything ever seen in this
|
as the wild cannibal dances Of the Fiji
islanders, which consist mainly of a
wild savage brandishing of heavy war
clubs to the time Of very vigorous
dancing and leaping. The dancers adj
curdling ferocity and as vigorously
turn aside beating the ground with
their heavy war clubs. Every national
| Sfxy 10 cfvI0 %1r1-
Its customs and identity, although they
socially naingle together with appar.
entity congenial natures. 1t is quite
a common sight to see an Albanian
Greek or Turk conversing with q Chi.
naman over pot of American beer in
fhe Val. Blatz beer tunnel by means OF
sign language, which. both seem tc
understand with little trouble. It il
wonderful to see how quickly all OF
these foreigners catch on to the Yankee
customs, modes Of expression, slang
and especially Dutch-American beer
Turks, Cinnamon Laplanders, Esqui
maux, Soudanese, uMibians, Egyp
tians, all patronize tho American beel
Istalls, and, strange to relate, but few
, / of them ever become noisily intoxicated
like many Americans and Europeans
OF course, there are exceptions Ito thu
rule, but not Many i = 5sgs H.
i The remark made some time ago b!
Kate Field to the effect that she woult
like. to see some practical Snowman
like. PIT. Barnum running this grea
! worlds show is now bearing fruit
Frank D.. Millet, the famous war cor
respondent, painter, decorator, ant
Jack Of all trades, whose name is al
most a household word on two cont
nents, is now in charge Of arfangin,
the pageants and circuses for tie goo,
people who visit the Columbian expo
sition. One night he arranges gram
fireworks and Chinese lantern displa.
on Wooded island and the nekt da,
he will have the whole Of ChicAgo, on
to see grand international swim
ming match or canoe race. Thkss Gil