Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20

blSuI4S uISIleu HdrLy Arrives from Java
AND Takes up Quarters at Midway
Plfaisance- Maidens from the
Hfarem With Prejudices- Priests Of
Hfgh Repute and Spouess Pedigree
description of Gowns and Lingerie
by( the Fashion Editor-Will be at
Home After May /.
BY recent ukase of the sultan of
Soerakartha the members of the corps
de- ballet attached to his household
wear tan shoes. That is to say when
they wear shoes at all they endue their
pedal extremities with leather of a hue
that matches their skin. They wore
them yesterday with reluctance and dis
gust when they reached Chicago on
their special train. Accompanying them
We're the remaining portions of the
tribe Of Javanese, its furniture, house
hold goods, picaninnieS, and weapons,
together with the high priest, to bury
the members of the tribe who shall
Succumb to the chill discomfort IF
Chicagos half-sulnned August. Nothing
but the display of a car load or two
of porous plasters and golden promises
of coin of the realm of SOerakartha in
duced the sultan's private ballet to Sc
lect the Midway plaisance as it's sum-
mer residence. Within a month a royal
household will be on exhibition at %
cents an exhibit
There was a crowd and q grin at
the Northwestern depot at o'clock
yesterday afternoon. The grin was re-
ciprocal between the special train and
the platform. 1t was also both basso
and soprano, the latter portion origi-
mating in an emigrant car 1t trickled
from between a set of white teeth
protrGded from a car window, where
the black pearls of the sultan were
craning their neckS to gain a glimpse
of their temporary home. AS the train
drew into the depot a coffee-cOlored col
lection of crisscrossed wrinkles peered
from over the shoulder of a Pullman
car porter, and further down the train
the face of a babe dissolved in tears
was visible at 4 faraWay window.
Distinguished Visitors DiSembark.
Several Hollanders in a frenzied state
of perturbation screamed directions to
their exhibit in an uncanny tongue and
then the doors of the cars were unlock
ed. The diSburdenment opened ON the
male side. 1t began with a white
disk, which on close inspection proved
to be the headgear of a subfusk hui
man being. Nobody at a superficial
glance would have detected that he
was chief. The opaque character of
his duSky skin rendered a recognition
of the blue blood that cOrIrSed beneath
1t matter of difficulty. But in his own
country nobody could mistake him for
anything but a prince, even if he does
wear Il pOrt-Wine mark on his face
AT home he is q radeu. something in
the grand duke line of business, and
his name is AdWin. Anywhere but IN
Java he would add a van or a de and
hyphenate himself but he says he is a
plain man and Adwip is good enough
for him. Not only is he a man of IN
speakable pedigree, but when called
upon he is the high priest of the party
leading his colOred tu4sowers in the
teachings Of the propher He has ac-
CURED the title of Hadji by two jour
neyS to Mecca, and consequently when
the party reached it's destination at
Ellis avenue and SiXtieth street he
stood upon woodpile and made a
speech.
Before that however, the corps de
ballet had to be unladen, and it was
matter demanding struggles from the
panic-stricken Hollanders and applause
from the multitude. Not much over
four feet high, but 1.-THE and willowy
rs sapling, the little chattering crowd
ripped from the car. Gold and red and
blue and purple grit them about the
shoulders.
Not Gowned by Worth.
Their skirts were the antitheses Of the
crinoline and they reached the middle
of the calf. Below that feet in tan
colored shoes seemed painfully far from
naturalneSs in the disguise of striped
stockings. Here and there a courageous
coryphee detied public opinion and the
breeze of the afternoon by abstlining
from the stocking habit. Most, how
ever, contended with the disabilities
attending civilization, and the Holland
ers hope in time to educate their con
voy even up to underclothing Thirty
six women formed the crowd, ten of
them being the pick of his majesty S
dancing corps.
For the first ime in history the mem
berS of the exclusive set in the high
life of SOerakartha have left their native
land, and it was felt that without a
ballet they would feel lonesome So
his majesty gave his consent to the
departure of the cOrypheeS. Following
the ballet came the rmeainder of the
male section, filling the total compile
ment of 125 people. They marched
in Indian file down the platform through
4 running fire Of criticisms The men
succeeded in carrying with them a
Renaissance of the old folks at home
in the shape Of a bandana girt about
their loins. The wearing of pantaloons
under the lOin cloth is a mere conces
sion to the well-known American pre-
iudice in favor of those garments
Hustled into omnibuses the party jolted
over the eight miles that separate the
depot from the plaiSance in a condi
ton of mceasing wonder at the queer
things they saw and the queer things
they heard
Enter into Possession.
The debaTkation on SiXieth stree
was equally picturesque. The cory
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