The times., 1893-09-22

| as III III ndu not Deen crowded dll udy yes
terday. Even the fish in the great pools
look cool and rested, and from the high
rockery the water pours down with a
soothing murmur over the aquatic plants.
Out at the west end we find the great
avenue filled with stream of humanity,
for three-fodrths of the visitors enter at the
two north ga5es and the Fifty-seventh and
Fifty-ninth street gates on the west side.
Very fresh and gay indeed do all these
people look now-husband and wife with
children running and skipping beside them,
groups of younger people chattering, and
the lone ones made gay by seeing the
Others 1t will be amusing to sit ON the
porch of the Indiana building about this
afternoon and note the contrast as these
people drag their weary way on the return.
You will see no speculation in their eyes
then.
Five hours for sightseeing and then the
current in the northwest avenue is in the
other direction. And it doesn't look pref
ty The women are collapsed; the men are
cross; the children are worse. But thou
sands remain sprawled here and there ON
the grass, reclining in all the state build
tngs, resting on the lake front or seated ON
the banks of the lagoons. About 7:3O p. m.
there is smaller, but still considerable
inward current again. All at once there is
flash of light, a ticking sound of electric
currents, and the domes break into glitter
ing lights, and the White City takes on its
night beauty Then come the colored foun-
tains in the Court of Honor, the fireworks
on the lake front, and to close all the mar
velous display in the Electricity building.
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The other morning l secured the services
of my guide and mentor in fine art and
launched out.
1--WE will go first" she said, Ito the Ne
braska state building, for / have found
there some very original wood carving done
by women, and believe you said you knew
something about timber. This
cherry wood mantel was carved by Mrs
Nisbet of Lincoln, and want you to take
notice that it is the sort of thing which
may last forever. There is no reason why
her descendants may not keep it for 20
generations, or until those Goths and Van
dals come which Henry George talks about.
The finish is as fine as any mahogany, and
yet you can see all the delicate designs in
the natural wood. And this oak table was
carved by Miss Barbour, who teaches in
the Lincoln university, and this frieze and
panel were painted by Miss Anna Morey.
Isn't it wonderful for the women of so new
a statep And here is a rug of cornshucks
made by woman 20 years old, and thereis
a lace bordered handkerchief done by
still older woman"
Nebraska has indeed creditable display,
and yet did not realize it on my former
inspection. 1t is wonderful how the COM
pany of an intelligent woman does help a
man to see things in some of these build
ingsi In the center of the main room is an
exhibit of souvenirs made from native
woods, loaned by Ex-Governor Furnas. An
other exhibit, loaned by his wife, contains
fine samples of the silk made in Nebraska,
and the ladies not only think them fine, but
claim that the lace handkerchief border
made by the very old woman will bear fa-
vorable comparison with those sent here
from France and Germany. Colonel Cody
-"Buffalo Bill''-has fitted up one corner
of this room with 'tepee," stuffed buffa-
loes, Indian beadwork, bows, arrows and
canoes, which make quite an interesting
little museum. And this reminds me that
Williams Indians go about the fair and
look at things as curiously as our folks and
are remarkably clean set of aborigines.
However, this has nothing to do with high
art.
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"This fine curtain" said my art guide
when we had returned to the women's
general exhibit, sis by Mrs. Franklin
Reeves, and this lot of table cover. en-
broidered moleskin and satin sheeting is
but part of a large display from the city
of Washington. L believe that Mrs. Bra
selman was most active in getting it up,
but would not venture to give the names
when l am not sure, so many mean little
things are done that way about this wom-
ans work. Ladies who embroider or paint
or even sing are generally a little touchy
about it, and all through here you'd better
follow Hoyle and when in doubt take
trick and don't mention names.
"This wool and silk painting is by Mary
Putnam Page of Massachusetts,, and the
Boston Society of Decorative Art makes all
this display of dainty work. Then there is
the work of the Philadelphia School of
Artistic Needlework-or some such title.
AT any rate its needlework certainly is
art, especially this centerpiece and the
napkins with pansies worked in colors.
The bedspread also has silk pansies in all
colors, but l cannot say admire such COM
binations. Some people do, of course, or 1t
wouldn't be here. But here is beauty, an
altar cloth in gold and silk colors worked
on heavy white silk, and a chalice veil and
stole.
"And all this lovely work of the New Or.
leans ladies and the Kentucky ladies, which
it would take me all day to point out the
beauties of and take you six months to un-
derstand, and Delaware sent four large
cases, and the next time you must take
whole forenoon to see that wonderful ex-
hibit of Auerbach, Bavaria, view of a
city built on the side of a mountain, which
rises to the snowy top in the distance, and
great cathedral on the other side, and all
the Germans just go into raptures over it,
and the folks often come up from the Old
Vienna in the plaisance just to gaze at it,
And now you have got all you can stand
for one day, and more than you can under
stand, and you'd better go down to the cat
tie show and tranquilize your mind"
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At the cattle show l was so fortunate as
to meet distant cousin who is still in the
came business down in east central Illi-
unis. where we used to ride after herds Cd