Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-10-13
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Astonishment Of Oriental Inhabitants of
the Exposition Esplanade.
Some of the Curious Impressions Which
Raw Chinese Imports Have of the Great
Industrial Show at Philadelphia.

Industrial Show at PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia, Oct. 3.-The Chinese
denizens Of the native village, who are
fresh within a month from their east
ern homes, have had a fine play time
while preparations TO arrange their
town on the Esplanade 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 a group OF
20 of them were Intercepted with this
question. What of all the things you
have seen has most astonished your"
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 Cam
ton students when he said Not SD
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 Il was an
open question between a horseless car
rage and the concave 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
as In strong contrast with their no.
tons of propriety and the customs
vi iheir native country. few with
an eye to the mere female beauty OF
the causaeian 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 In,
exposition buildings. They seemed to-
tally unable 10 become reconclled to
this phase OF western life. while thew
confess their eagerness to see as much
OF II 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 I'm.
'rammeled beauty OF the opposite sex.
without restriction.
Inc boys of the Chinese quarter
these children OF the Orient, who are
rond or 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 a peculiar Celestial inouisi-
tiVeness and interest in that sort OF
mechanism, are absorbed In all tha
various groups OF figures moved bv
clockwork. The wonders of electricity
as exhibited in the little contriyances
are inexplicable to them. and after
puzzling over these exhibits and seek-
ing explanations in their quaint pigeon
English, abandon them altogether for
those things which they have some
hopes Of reaching an understanding
ABOUT The grandest products OF
mechanical genius are passed over by
the chinese with a sense of awe. the
secrets OF the movements of which
they have no hopes of comprehendinp
but the little ingenius toys are sure
10 draw their eyes and light up their
faces with smiles.
On the Esplanade some of them
wandered into the animal show and
sat open mouthed through the to them
amazing performance, for none of
them have ever seen an elephant or a
hon. wild or tame, in the whole course
OF their lives. The Oriental dancing
puzzles them as much as the working
OF an electric dynamo; the one is as
inexpiicable to them as the other.
Their idea of dancing Is quite a diff
ferent thing, and they have been i'm
pressed with the idea that this ia a
new system OF "wigwagging" which
ingenious occidentals have devised
The crowning attraction of the Chi
nsse village arrived today. when 1O2
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 village
GENE with their husbands and will
add to the reality and interest of the
domestic phase Of the village. 1t ia
expected that number of other Chi
nese women will arrive later. The |
aristocratic pretensions of these ladies
OF the Chinese village are measured
by the size of their pedal extremities.
those having the smallest feet making
the prQQfaof