The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1894-04-13
Free Education For 60,000,000 of
People.
A Subject Of Vital Importance to Every Head
Of Family.

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OF Family.
1t was intended from the beginning
that the Worlds Fair should be a
great free educator for the millions Of
people who were expected to attend it.
Everything was planned and con-
structed on this basis.
The buildings were carefully plan
ned and erected to represent all the
styles and schools of architecture that
have prevailed since the building of
houses became a science.
Our public school system was re-
produced in all its branches and rami-
hcations, in active working order.
The arts and sciences we're more
fully and satisfactorily outlined than
in any other worlds exposition that
was ever held.
Agriculture, manufactures, railroad
building, printing, steam, electricity
and the other powers that move the
world, were displayed on a basis of
such grandeur and magnitude that all
who saw them were astonished.
Everything was on the most gigantic,
perfect and satisfactory scale.
And yet the Exposition was dis
appointment so far as the fulhllment
of its great educational purposes was
concerned.
There were two reasons for this.
I. The hard times came on and COM
paratively few of the millions Of our
people were able to attend the Fair.
2. Those who did 60 found such a
vast aggregation that it was impossible
for them to comprehend or understand
it. 1t was like an incoherent dream,
where thousand objects, each utterly
different from the other, pass rapidly
through a teverish and disordered
brain.
Hence it may be truly said that the
Fair, within itself. and for the pur-
poses of its creation, was sad failure.
But we are resourceful people,
and when we fail in one direction We
win success in another, plucking victo-
ry from the ashes of defeat.
If the Fair was failure within it
self, for the reasons named, it is not
a failure in its permanent educational
influence ubon the masses of the
people-those now on the earth as
we'll as those who are to come.
The Fair and all its belongings have
been reflected and reproduced in hun
dreds of accurate, splendid and beau
tiful photographs and circulated by
the millions among the people, almost
without price.
Thus every one who so desires can
have permanent re.openlng of the
Fair in his own family with all its
pleasures and advantages.
No man is true to himself or his
family who neglects such an oppor
tunitY. 1t is no excuse to plead poverty
or inability. Every man is able to
spare ten cents week for these splen-
did and valuable Worlds Fair port
folios.
They are better than the Fair 1t
self, because they not only photo
graph, perfectly and beautifully, every
thing in and around and about the
Fair, but each seperate view is de-
scribed SO that even child will un-
derstsnd it, and thus the permanent
educational advantages of the great
Exposition can be disseminated all
over our broad land and become per-
manent features and helpers in the
free education of the people.
Every family should be supplied
with these Worlds Fair portfolios
But in making your selection be sure
to get the best and the most useful.
In this respect there is none equal to
"The Magic City, series. 1t stands
above and beyond all the others. 1t is
more beautiful and it is more com
prehensive. 1t embraces nearly 400
separate views and descriptions while
all others are limited to less than zoo.
1t not only covers every part and
section of the Worlds Fair, but of the
Midway Plaisance as well-tbat grand
Congress of Nations, so interesting
and instructive to all who desire to
obtain knowledge about the different
kinds of people who inhabt the earth.