The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-14
WIND AND WHISPERS.
Both Given Plenty Of Latitude at The
Worlds Fair.

City-An Authoritative Statement
About Prices.
The exposure of whiskers at the exposi-
tion and all over Chicago is perhaps the
most remarkable characteristic of this
occasion, says the Pittsburg Dispatches
worlds fair correspondent Until the
crowds of eastern folk get here this may
well be called the worlds Columbian ex-
position of whiskers. 1t is evident these
expenditures, like the population, have
been gradually going west with the
growth of the country. But while the
center of population is somewhere in In
diana, this has become the center of
whiskers
1t may be that the wind has some con-
nection with this Capitalization, for the
wind which so loves to sport with the
frippery of human faces is also centered
here. 1t never stops blowing and the
whiskers never tire of dancing to its
music.
One evident result of the worlds fair
will be to bring out the best whiskers the
country can boast All styles are gath
ering, and an informal competition is well
under way.
WHISPERS TOO COMMON TO NOTICE.
To give an idea of the conditions here
we will take Maj Handy as an illustra-
ton. He would be a marked man in the
east, as he always was when there. on &C
count of his soft but well-trimmed facial
draperies, but here he is not noticed in
the bewhiskered multitude.
Secretary Gresham has had n lawn
mower run over his capillary vegetation
in Difference to eastern prejudice, and he
looked Insignificant when here with the
President the other day, and popular
frost moved with him wherever he went,
for the people resented his disloyalty to
western usage, Don Dickinson, with his
cloSe-trimmed, club-stewed style Of whis-
kers, would be frowned down if he tried
to live here. That sort of thing evil
IDENTIFY goes III Detroit, but il is felt that
Detroit is old and eastern and effete
While here he was taken for a dude or an
English waiter.
Here we see the goat style au natural,
and the Dundreary growth is at its best,
but the long, loose, soft clouds of hair that
blow whichever way the wind listeth are
the more truly admired effects, because
they are simple and honest, like horses
tail.
MANS CHEAPEST OF ALL LUXURIEs.
1t has been said of whiskers that they
are the cheapest luxury known to man. 1t
might be said that being addicted to
whislers is the only vice which saves
money to its victims. Such statements
have been made in Pittsburg, where men
are different, but here it would be danger
GUS to do aught except admire these
beautiful portieres of nature. This cor
respondent never refers to whiskers in
conversation except tenderly and poet
ically, as he would speak of the golden
tassels Of a cornfeld in August.
Still, it is strange TO see the western
men take seats at the tables in a restau-
rant and wiring the fog out Of their whis-
kers before they scan the bill OF fare, and
II is new sensation to watch the BARRIERS
tie their customers whiskers behind the
backs Of their heads to get them out of
the way while they are shaving the mems
necks.
If any Pittsburs street boy were here
on a visit and should call out: Hey!
Whiskers! Stop that man with the
whiskers.' the whole concourse of men in
Jackson park would halt at the cry.
EHE EFFECT OF THE SMOKE.
The smoke, which is the chief element
in the Chicago atmosphere lent its queer
effects to outdoor objects, says the New
York Suns worlds fair letter. AS the
fair grounds are six miles from the heart
of the city, ii was supposed that the
smoke would not hurt the exposition
buildings, but already the stains and
smudges and drippings of smoke in solu-
tion are seen on the light-hued buildings.
and this will soon change the great white
exposition city into park full of soiled
palaces. Already it is getting to be a
coffee-colored collection. The artists like
it, because it takes the newness and raw
ness from whatever it smudges.
But, alas, it is as unsparing as death, and
il is aging some things which should be
left young.
Take our Diana, for instance, the i'm
modest Diana who used to throw her only
garment down to Madison square. She
is aging, and turning the color of a Sulli-
van-street belle. In another month she
could go place in burnt-cork show.
She has a black eye, where the smoke
has settled in the cavity of one optic, and
she presents to the assembled multitude
one black thigh and one that is as brightly
golden as il was when she was with us in
New York. She has indeed passed away
from us, and by midsummer when we
look up to her eminence on top of the
Agricultural building, we shall not recog-
niZe our old divinity. Her one garment,
which, more like Venus than like chaste
Diana, she seems to be anxious to keep at
arms length from her body, has been
painted sky-blue; but that is an improve
ment in the eyes of this critic, though it
is blemish in the sight of many artists
UNIQUE NEWSPAPER EXHIBIT.
An exhibit at the fair of peculiar in
terest to the newspaper fraternity, but of
interest to everybody, if everybody had a
chance to see it, is that prepared by H p
Hubbard of New York under the direc-
tion of Mai. Handy. II occupies the four
walls of large room in the suite in the
Administration building occupied by Mr.
Handy, and is connected with his private
room and barred TO the public II is
collection of the heads, date lines, and in
some cases the entire first page of the
newspapers OF the world.
It's popularity is largely due to the ar
rangcment of the papers in every con
ceivable figure and form, and their CLASH
fication. The German, Italian, Frenc h
and English papers are grouped in novel
manner on one wall. Religious papers,
home papers, trade papers, sporting
papers, etc, are classified and reclassi-
fed according to the frequency of their
publication, whether daily, weekly or
monthly.
From every quarter of the habita BILE
globe are newspapers, printed in all Ian
guages, from the Times of Ceylon, the
Annoy Gazette, and the Shipping Report
of Africa to the Persian journal II Habbar
Malti, the South African Farmers Rep
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