Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-10-05
CHINESE At THE EXPOSITION
Their Astonishment at What is
Before Their Eyes.
SOME VERY CURIOUS IMPRESSIONS
Entertained by the Celestial
Importations.
They Go Through the EXPECTATION Build
ines and View tine Wonders, as in n
Dream-AIi Are Deeply Interested In the
American woinen--Ihe Chinese village

Philadelphia, Oct. 3.-The Chinese
denizens of the native village, who are
fresh within a month from their east
ern homes, have had fine play time
while preparations to arrange their
town on the Esplsnade has been in,
progress.
During the past ten days they have
been permitted to roam at will within
the exposition grounds and buildings,
and they have been as men in dream,
bewildered at the things they have
seen, to them beyond comprehension
and appearing to some of them SUPER
natural.
Through an interpreter group OF
60 of them were Intercepted with this
question: What of all the things you
have seen has most astonished you?"
The answer to this was almost un-
animous: "Great space-big ROOM" or
as one of them explained PLENTY air.
muchee light, muchee chance to move
about" This contrast to their cramp-
ed quarters in their Chinese home was
otherwise expressed by one of the Can
ton students when he said. mot SO
muchee Mclean man as Chinaman."
The density of the population of course
explains these expressions. To an
other question, what most amuses
your" the reply was that it was an
open question between horseless car
riage and the concaye and convex mir
rors, which reflected their faces and
figures in various degrees of fairness
and leanness.
When they were asked to seriously
answer the question as to what most
interested them, their reply was almost
as uniform as their answer to the
question as to what astonished them
most. They are all deeply interested
in the American women. some of them
as an object of beauty. but to most of
them an object of the most intense
curiosity in the freedom with which
they pass in and out in public. and
the public employment of the women
tons of propriety and the customs
Of their native country. A few with
an eye to the mere female beauty of
the Causacian variety gaze with open
| eyed wonder at the blonde hair, rosy
cheeks and laughing blue eyes of the
presiding divinities at the numerous
booths and various stands in which
women are employed throughout the
exposition buildings. They seemed to-
tally unable to become reconciled to
this phase of western life, while they
confess their eagerness to see as much
of it as possible.
| They all agree that the "Melican
girls" are pretty, and agree that all
Cinnamon would be envious of their
glimpse Of the National Export ex-
position on account of their oppor-
tunity to witness the unveiled and un-
trammeled beauty of the opposite sex
without restriction.
The boys of the Chinese quarter
these children of the Orient, who are
fond of color and fantastic effects, are
apt to forget the more serious part OF
the exposition and stop at whatever
point the most amusing and wonderful
mechanical toy is exhibited. These
lads, with peculiar Celestial inquisi-
tiveness and interest in that sort Of
mechanism, are absorbed in all the
various groups of figures moved by
clockwork. The wonders of electricity
as exhibited in the little contrivances
are inexplicable to them, and after
puszling over these exhibits and seek.
ing explanations in their quaint pigeor
English, abandon them altogether fo
those things which they have somt
hopes of reaching an understanding
about. The srandest products O
mechanical genius are passed over by
the Chinese with sense of awe, thu
secrets of the movements of which
they have no hopes of comprehending
but the little ingenius toys are SURF
to draw their eyes and light UP theil
faces with smiles.
On the Esplanade some of then
wandered into the animal show ant
sat opek mouthed through the to then
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them have ever seen an elephant or ;
, lion, wild or tame, in the whole cours
OF their lives. The Oriental dancinI
puzzles them as much as the working
of an electric dynamo; the one is a
. . inexplicable to them as the other
Their idea of dancing is quite diff
ferent thing, and they have been i'm
, pressed with the idea that this is ;
, new system of "wigwagging" which
; ingenious occidentals have devised.
: The browning attraction of the Chi
nese village arrived today, when 10
,, villagers entered the colony, bringing
with them a number of Chinese wo
, men, with the tiniest feet in the world
] These female inhabitants of the villag
come with their husbands and will
add to the reality and interest of tn
domestic phase of the village. 1t
1 expected that a number of other Chi
, nese women will arrive later. TIL
aristocratic pretensions of these ladie
) of the Chinese village are measure
! by the size of their pedal extremities
those having the smallest feet maxim
the greatest pretensions toward
higher place in the social scale. 1t
not probable, however. that there vii
Q be any difficulty in arranging the socia
, functions Of the village because of tn
. clash between the female sets" whic
, compose part of it.
Three Killed by Gus.
a Baltimore, Md, Oct. 3. Three PEI
I sons were accidentally suffocated b