The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-10
but ever good-natured withal, not less

There were the young Egyptians, as
full of fun and mischief as our own
Young America, running down the
street driving the little donkeys, upon
the backs of which were perched boys
and girls, some frightened and cling
ing on for dear life, others whipping
and kicking, laughing and screaming
with delight, scattering the crowds
with their yells of Look outr' There
was the traditional fortune teller
squatted upon the floor, in front of him
scattered the sand without which he
could not tell your fortune. There
were Egyptian mosques and places of
worship; along each side of the mar
row crooked street were booths pre-
sided over by dusl1y maidens where
were
Masks for faces and for noses.
"Bugle, bracelet, necklace, amber;
Perfume for ladys chamber;
Golden quaifS. and stomacher,
For my ladies to give their dears;
Pins and poking-sticks of steel
What maids lack from head to heal;
Come buy of me, come; come buy. come
buy;
Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry:
Come buy, buy
There were mummies- of beings who
lived hundreds of years before Christ
the theatre with its native dancers,
dancing to the time of the Oriental
music, and going through their quaint
gestures and muscular movements; the
weird beating Of tom-tomS and ki-yi,
ki-yi, of the natives, and the merry
laughter of the visitors, all leaving an
impression never to be forgotten.
From Cairo we passed out into the
busy street, strolled west a short dis
lance and entered the Dahoman vii
lage. Here an entirely different scene
presented itself. The natives of that
faraway cline were assembled under
a bowery. The king was seated upon
his crude throne while at his right
were squatted upon the rough boards
Of the floor the royal musicians. beat
ing upon hollow pieces of trees. and
upon great huge wooden instruments
shaped like the xylaphone, but of the
crudeSt sort of construction. making
a noise resembling nothing we ever
heard before, and in front of him were
big brawny coal black fellows clad in
brief clouts only, running up and down
the pavilion, skipping to the tune of
the drums in perfect step with each
other, struggling their shoulders. first
one and then the other. and display
ing their magnificent muscles, pushing
and jostling and dragging each other
about on the rough floor, perform
ance not only amusing, but affording
us food for reflection. The DahomanS
are good natured looking fellows,
nlirth-loving and mischievous, but look
capable of enduring great physical
hardships
Having by this time become dry as
well as hungry enough to devour a
Midway sandwich, we went to Old vi
Jenna Seating ourselves at table I'M
der the shade of a tree conveniently
situated to enable US to hear the sweet
strains Of the either, we gave our or
ders to a buXom girl who smiled at and
talked Dutch to US. In another part
lof the grounds we could hear the mu-
sic of the famous Old Vienna band. At
different tables were seated robust
Germans carrying on desperate fir
tations with the pretty waiter girl
while they quaffed their mugs of foam
ing beer Then we strolled around
viewing the many pretty things at the
different booths presided over by eager
Viennese maidens ever anxious to
make a sale of their wares Across the
way was the American Indian village,
where we saw the big Injun' in all
his glory, decorated with the tradition
al war paint and eagles feathers and
flaming blankets, performing his war
dance and chanting his Indian song.
We then took in the Turkish theatre,
"a tragedy and, of course, a charming
oriental love scene. We saw the Per-
sian theatre, where were the native
dancing girls who went through the
form Of dance peculiar to the eastern
countries; went into the Moorish pal
ace and saw the many pretty things
to be seen there; into the Mystic Lab
rynth, where the big Indian chief, up
on seeing himself reflected so many
times concluded that all the Indians in
America were after him, and becom-
ing frightened, exclaimed: Ugh! too
many big Injun," and dashed through
Ia big mirror, which cost somebody a
pretty sum to replace. We saw the
ostrich farm, where are two dozen
birds tas newspaper man aptly
termed them) of the Shanghai order of
architecture; but withal very aristo-
cratic fellows disdaining the ordinary
PARTICLES of food common to their tribe,
such as nails. pieces Of glass and other
such luxuries. only for dessert.
In this self same Midway we saw a
mulatu.e reproduction OF ST. Peters
at Rome. complete in every detail, sat
lin the chair once occupied by Plus
TX, gazed upon the faces of the sew
eral popes of Rome down to the pres
ent Leo; went into the old Roman
Mosque or house of worship and knelt
upon the sacred rug, and within a
stones throw rode in the great Ferris
wheel, the massive testimonial of me-
chanical skill and art and the wonder
of the thousands upon thousands of
men. women and children who had the
good fortune to see it, while the music
waited TO us from the German band,
and the wierd acknowledgements
beating on the tom-toms in Cairo and
the doleful Whir of the Turkish thea
tire orchestra, echoed in our ears; rode
on the sliding railway and screeched
and yelled and made as merry as a
midwinter coasting party. Then we
entered the Javenese village and talk
ed with the little men and women
from the land of coffee; little beings
ever smiling and as gentle as
the summer breezes that watt in their
own dear Java: were much interested
in their little bamboo huts in front of
which were squatted the little fellows
smoking the native cigarette and gra-
ciously proffering one to each of us;
went into their theatre and was de-
lighted with the very creditable per-
Torrance. Of course took in the inter
national beauty show. There are maid
ems with rosy cheeks, red lips, sparkling
eyes, graceful figures, shapely hands,
small and pretty feet, delicately turned
ankles, clad in beautiful costumes of
the latest fashion peculiar to the coun-
try the wearer represents. There is
the stately American girl with spark
ling eyes, her piquant, self-satisf1ed,
queenly look and graceful, well round
ed figure; the robust, healthy, good-na-
tured English maid; the Irish beauty
with her laughing eyes and ready
tongue, full of the mother wit; the
pretty French coquette, ever ready to
fiirt, captivating the men with her
roguish eyes; the dreamy eyed Spanish
signoretta; the rosy checked German
fraulein: the pretty little Japanese girl,
with her tiny little ears and great big