Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-01

without putting us TO the necessity or
\ expense of an ocean trip, with its at
tendant discomforts, it would seem that
every one would gladly avail them
selves of the opportunity of seeing all
that they have dreamt of and at the
same time obtaining more comprehen-
sive idea of the resources Of their own
country than they ever had before.
This combination has settled down in
Chicago, and the person who let's it 90
by win regret it always and wonder
every day how they could let so grand
an opportunity escape them.
| am just home from a trip to Cairo,
Algiers, Turkey Germany and Ireland,
made at the trdiug cost Of 81 or So
that went for some endcing trinkets
sold in the foreign bazaars Perhaps
some one is puzzled by this statement
therefore let me explain | have been
doing the midway plaisance from the
Irish village to the great wheel, which
is the American rival of the Eitfel tow
er
This densely populated section re-
veals more in one afternoon than You
could learn in months Of foreign travel
Within sight of the tall buildings of
Chicago you can enter into the very
heart of the most unique cities Of the
orient The streets of Cairo are daily
crowded with tourists who enjoy most
thoroughly the wedding ceremonies, the
weaving, the donkey and camel riding
and the eccentric dancing in the queer
little theater Swarthy men in gaudy
robes mingle among the throng vending
their wares or remain seated in their
shops fashioning those articles that are
so much priced by the American lover
: Of the unique An Egyptian school is
in progress and forty or fifty little
cream-colored natives of Cairo sing
: song the lessons in the manner of the
children Of the Nile.
Mrs. Potter Palmer almost daily
drives out to the fair grounds and is
very partial to the plaisance, and no
wonder Every time you 90 you see
something new and the time fits by
until you find yourself at dark still
) wandering among the jungle of booths
! shifting ottar of roses and examining
, Turkish embrodelies
+ In Algiers there is a most interesting
family consisting Of a handsome, dash
T ng-loolling man, about % years Of age,
, the typical native Of the orient, laden
down with chains md sequins, his
wife, a languid beauty, with painted
nails, filmy garments an glorious eyes;
an elderly dame striving TO be young,
with her gayly decorated robes and
plated hair redolent Of oriental odors
and sticky with some eastern frizzine,
and two small boys, one of s and the
Other a baby almost, whose name,
Mahomct, suits him to perfection. His
costume consists of one loose garment,
which slips off from the neck at inter
walls, revealing his pretty brown skin,
suggestive Of . bronze statue.
We S-year-old STEAKS English |
asked him the age Of his mother and he
replied 10y spreaing his brown palms
three times face downward before me,
which gesture | interpreted as meaning
30 | then inquired the age Of the
decorated Katisha. and with a shrug
that would have made his fortune ON
the stage came the answer: she! she
is too mucl.'
Blarney castle looms up in all its
picturesque beauty at the entrance of
this foreign pathway Of travel BY it's
door sets the most Irish Of Irishman
joking the passing crowds, grooming
his native harmonies and playing a bag
pipe that answers 10 the master spirit
that controls it, by giving out those
weird sounds that wake the echoes Of
the Emerald Isle. Within its walls one
sees the industries and amusements Of
Erin interpreted by worthy representa-
tives Of the land Of boys and "praHes"
and when you come out you feel that
thousands of miles of ocean roll be-
tween you and America.
1T is but a very short trip to Ger
many. There amid its quaint drchitec-
ture, you sip real German beer from Il
stein as big as your head and feel that
/ you must speak German to the walters
! who beam upon you and wonder how
/ it happens you cannot understand them. .
Then there is the Moorish palace, the
Esquimau village, the Arabs, the Da-
I honey tribes an a host Of other for
eign sections to visit in the usual way,
but which are here open TO view along
with all the other wonders Of the great
fair
Until you have seen the grounds
Illuminated you can form no idea Of
their fairylike beauty Take con-
dola and float out on to the lagoons and
from there revel in a scene such as
viii live forever in your memory The
great dome Of fhe administration build
iug, situated at the. east side Of the
court Of honor, looms up a brilliant ball
Of fire resplendent with myriads of
electric lights and the flare Of a dozen
torches In front the huge fountain
splashes, liquid rainbows turned red.
green, violet and yellow through the \,
necromancy Of the giant search light /.
that converts all objects into brilliant /,
diamond points Around the edge Of
the lagoons tiny globes Of light see
their pretty images reflected in the wa