The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-28

Mercy. they are not good enough for
Hull House. l should never venture to
send them therel They are so partieu-
lari''
Which tale has a number of morals if
one be minded TO search for them! Yet,
does il not all point TO an overwhelming
and deepening culture among the plain
people. The American has paused long
enough in his fierce struggle for money
to perceive that his daily life needs
beauty. Prosperity 10 him. begins to
mean a more leisurely and beautiful or
dering of life. He perceives the lack to-
day: tomorrow he will be trying to fill
it, And not even the magazines and the
daily journals have done so much TO
bring him to this attitude of wholesome
unrest and anticipation as the great ex-
positions.
Modestly. at one corner, are the apiary
and dairy buildings, and facing them is
the transportation building. Why stray
incubator should have sought shelter in
this part OF the grounds l know not: any
more than | know why the liberal arts
is the appointed guardian for the main
body of artificial chicken mothers. The
transportation building is interesting,
but MOTTO the writer's mind-so inter-
esting as some of the other great build
ings In the dairy building. which well
repays a visit, there is an ingeniously
cooled car. where a butter artist models
busts of Dewey, Hobson and other pop
ular heroes in that pliable but perish
able medium. One of the striking exhib-
its of the splendid Studebaker collection
of wagons and carriages. in the trans
portation building, is the aluminium farm
wagon. 1t is a wagon hit for a prince.
and light enough for a fairy; but alast
only prince or a millionaire could af-
ford TO pay for its light strength. for IL
cost, I think, some $500. this simple
farm wagon, There are three exhibits
which tower above all others at the
Omaha Exposition. They are typical of
| the transmississippi States. the agricul-
tural. the electrical and the mining ex-
| hibits. 1 have spoken of the first two.
The third in its own way. is as 5tupen-
dous.
Beneath the square Greek towers and
the grand dome of the mining building
is a wonderful display of metals and
minerals and mining machinery. The
great silver and gold mines of the far
West, the great coal mines of Iowa and
Illinois. the great stone quarries of the
transmississippi States. all have repre-
sentatives in miniature of machinery and
product There is mine in operation
and a history of mining in object les
sons. And there is a mine in operation
and a history of minerals from alabaster
to COAL from lime to sapphires and ru-
bies. 1t is as typical of the wealth of
the vast land beyond the river as the
agricultural building, with it's many
hued and Enthusiastically fancied display,
and as typical of the devouring energy
of its soul as the purring monsters in the
electricity building.
Yet. when we come to the parting
word of all the beautv all the marvel
which man has wrought, that which will
| haunt the mind in memories of this
| latest of our great American expeditions.
| is it not the art? / do not mean the
| pictures which are hung on the gallery
walls, or the statues in its portals.
mean the art embodied in the noble
architecture. in the splendid groups that
are painted against the vast Sunlit spaces
| of the blue Nebraska dome. in the fair
/ procession of natures velvet and Jewels
| in lawn and terrace. in plant and flower.