Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-07-15

A few that interested me particularly
were the chiffonier trunk, the M. NJ.
Harris refrigerator, the Daubee folding
beds. the safety attachment for saddles
and the invention for releasing run
away horse from the carriage thereby
avoiding wreck.
The trunk can be converted into a
miniature wardrobe by opening it and
standing it up. You then have doors
that can be locked, moyeable shelves
and drawers and curtains to protect and
ornament the front.
The refrigerator has ventilated food
drawers and a filter for the drippings
from the ice and the water may then be
used for any purpose since it is made
pure.
The folding bed has apartments for
nurse and invalid or for mother and
restless child. The other inventions
mentioned speak for themselves.
Woman's work in savagery is very
interesting as it shows the perseverance
and genius of women even in the bar
barous state.
While admiring coat woven from
threads on which were strung beads,
bird bones and monkey teeth, with a
fringe of beetle wings, another 'lone
lorn" lady stopped beside me and, as I
looked up, she smiled and said II am
just dying to talk to somebody" in
formed her that I was alone and at her
service, and we spent most delightful
hour in doing that exhibit and the Afri
can exhibit belonging to Mrs. French
Sheldon. When we had separated, l
thought of her parting remark, 81 am
so glad TO have met you," and wondered
if we really had met" in the common
acceptation of the term since we knew
nothing of each others names or homes.
There is so much that is instructive in
the African exhibit. 1t supplies what
your imagination was called to supply
in reading of the African people.
The dress worn by Mrs. French-Shel-
don when she received the native Sui
tans, looks as though she had modelled
it to please, after their own barbaric
splendor.
See the dolls dressed to represent diff
ferent periods of fashion, and the 1892
and 1893 are much the prettiest, though
the Puritan maiden is quaint and de-
mure. Then pass to the Bryn Mawr
school exhibit, where you see great deal
of fine embroidery and laces. Bohemian
work in bond, on your way to this girls
school, but such work while very lovely
is really not very instructive. Of course
we want to see it, but little time suf-
fees to take in the beauty which you
will never forget; but when you go to
school or mission work you have some
thing that helps to enlarge ones concep-
ton of what one reads about.
Look into Kate Marsdon's Russian
and Siberian leper mission and you will
have an adequate idea of the horrors of
leprosy. Their huts in miniature made
of mud and grass, their outcast condi-
ton, isolated in the wilderness, all be-
fore you will enable you to feel the
pathos of that seen in Ben Hur where
the lepers, mother and daughter, hide
themselves.
l think it is as it should be that here
you may enter Ceylon booth and for
get the terrible plague by taking cup
of Ceylon tea, poured by Ceylon wo-
man in her native costume which shows
great deal of her native complexion
and fine collection of barbaric orna-
ments. Her ears were pierced in three
places, in the lobe and rim, and then
her nose was pierced in two places and,
in all of these places, as the woman
manager informed me, she wore "ear
rings and also on her toes"
The kindergarten work in the Aus
trian and German departments here was
fine.
You will realize something of the
magnitude of this city which is COM
posed entirely of Worlds Fair buildings
when you are on the grounds, and hear
people who are doing the fair ask, "why
what is that2" They see a procession
pass by and do not know that it is ''Her
Majesty's" display of fancy uniforms,
and that building covering nearly g.
600 square feet of ground on the lake
shore has been officially dedicated and
opened as the Canadian pavilion. This
building has veranda, ten feet wide
running around all sides, with balcony
of the same width above, supported by
twenty-eight Tuscan columns. This
building with its beautifully laid out
grounds cost $4,000.
There were addresses of welcome and
and music by the English
Military Tournament and the Highland
pipers.
After the Canadian dedication went
to the Kansas state building, and as
matter of loyalty, registered, hoping to
find some friends; my only consolation
81 s.. g., Al