Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-01

hiRxssf aaaounf ce amadh n the shorsas1
time. Boys also have profound drsad a
authority, especially cf the law. TAsss
dark races haven't Boys can be separate
~ exAminsd add caught in hs Il thsy
have made up one. With thess Arab Il
ID more fun to beat the lAw than IL was 10
do the original dsvilment. The result Il
that whiss men put in control Of them
nearly always adopt arbitrary methods IN
little while. The Chinese, however, are
| said 10 excel all other races in svading the
law and coneeahng what is done among
themssiyeA They have got IL down u n
exact scisnsa eef
will not 60 % far - TO say that tbs
i Dahomeyap here ID man and brothse-
may want 70 run for office some dAy-but
he acts 50 much like the boys Of my time
did and as many Of them. fear, would
have continued TO act il they lad thsa
been turned loose, thaA cannot but synr
pafhize With him. The boy who 10 NOT In
actual pain and is not hungry forms no
plans for the future, and lives entirely In
the present Ii is just the same with tAess
blacks. In short. the childhood Of the
man il a good type Of the childhood Of the
world. Turn lot Of boys loose In the
woods for q day and they invent very
much as the sava9es did. They pass
through the Stone Age" selecting thA
most suitable stones, muscle shells and
the like for implementA The strongest
and most daring boy assumes the leader
ship. He is chief Of the temporary tribe
and the little savages obey him Yes, il
appears plain that ssssssos can arrive at
the eourse Of social evolution most surely
and rapidly by studying the ways Of our
own dear little savages
I have at last found something real
naughty on the plaisance- II is at the
Persian sheater which has resumed after
temporary restraint The warning
chscked the performers for awhile, but
they have now turned loose worse than
ever, The large room was we'll filed when
l saw the danse du ventre there and at
least fifty ladies were in the audience.
The performance generally was fat b.
yond my power To describe, but as each
successive dance grew little more rank
the male lockers on shouted and laughed
and jeered till the place was like BedlAm.
The ladies looked on it very much a. they
would on the antics Of lot OF lunatics
which in truth il too much resembled
But l shall not describe the particular
Persian mode Of that singular Oriental
dance 1t certainly is Suggestive And
to complete the parallel above outlined,
it is remarkably like certain ridiculous
performances have often seen among boys.
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OF future events at the fair very i'm
portAnt and interesting one will be the
Fishermen's festival and displays on Sept.
10 and 90. II is announced that all the
fishing interests of the world will be rep
resented. and all the boats and impls-
ments used in fishing will appear in the
procession. There Will be the skin kayak
Of the Esquimaux. the Hawaiian canoe.
the dugout, the catamaran, the Malay
outrigger, the whaleboat, New England
dory and everything else in that line Al
the congress papers will be read by ex-
perts. and all the queer things discovered
and seen by fishermen will he exploited,
from the youth Of st. Peter to the success
Of Seth Green and his successors.
The Antwerp Exposition.
The American propaganda has been ap-
pointed the authorized agent Of the Inter
national exposition TO be held In Antwerp
nsxt year, and will also act AZ the COM
mission for the United States to that ex-
position. 1t is not the intention of the
propaganda to appeal to congress for an
appropriation, rs has been customary
hitherto in foreign expositions, but on the
contrary to place the burden Of expense
upon the exhibitors who are to be the d.
rect benefciaries of the exposition. Tho
American propaganda Is at present en-
gagged In the formation Of an honorary
commission TO represent the United States
at the Antwerp exposition. 1t ia intended
to include in this commission President
T. w. Palmer, Charles Henrotin, the Bel
gian consul at ChicaC the ex-ministers OF
the United states to Belgium, the Bel
gium ministers At Washington, all the
Belgian consuls in the United States.
prominent manufacturers interested IN
export trade from every state In the
Union. and all the chiefs Of departments
OF the Chicago exposition. The entire sx-
pense Of the commission will be borne BY
the propaganda