The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-10-10
OURSELVES AS
OTHERS SEE Us
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.
Philadelphia, Oct. 3.-The Chinese
denizens of the native village, who are
fresh within q 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 group of
90 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 I'M
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
you" the reply was that it was an
open question between horseless car
riage 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.
lions Of propriety and the customs
Of their native country. A few with
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che 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 1t as possible.
They all agree that the Mclean
girls" are pretty, and agree that all
Cinnamon would be enyious of their
glimpse of the National Export ex-
position on account of their oppor-
tunity 70 witness the unveiled and I'M
tpammeled 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-
uyaness and interest In that sort of
mechanism, are absorbed in all the
various groups of figures moved by
caoekwork. The wonders of electricity
as exhibited in the little contrivances
are inexplicable to them, and after
p1lzEffng over these exhibits and seek
ing explanations In their quaint pigeon
EnSiish, 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 compromising,
but the little ingenius toys are sure
to draw their eyes and light up their
faces with smiles.
Oa 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
puz3les them as much as the working
Of an electric dynamo; the one is as
| ineXpalcabae to them as the other.
Their idea Of dancing is quite diff
feFarA thing, and they have been i'm
pressed with the idea that this is
Rev gstam Of "wigwagging" which
fagsnfBas occidentals have devised.
This browning attraction of the Chi
rase village arrived today, when 102
vTEAasEg entered the colony, bringing
vita them a number of Chinese wo-
nen With the tiniest feet in the world.
These female Inhabitants of the village
come with their husbands and will
add 70 the reality and interest of the
domestic phase of the village 1t is
expected that number of other Chi
nese women will arrive later The
arasto~atic pretensions of these ladies
Of the Chinese village are measured
BY tbs size of their pedal extremities,
those having the smallest feet making
the greatest pretensions toward a
higher place in the social scale 1t is
ncs probable, however. that there will
be any difficulty in arranging the social
functions OF the village because of the
clash between the female sets" which
compose part of Il.
PICTURES WORKED IN FIRE.