Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-10-06
CHINESE FRESH FROM CHINA.
Oriental Habits, Dress and Customs Strik-
ingly Shown on the Exposition
Esplanade.


Esplanade.
However interesting the street way
of the Esplanade, or midway" ut the
Philadelphia Export exposition may be.
thousands daily confess their convic-
ton that the scenes behind the walls
are of still greater interest. Paying
an extra cash consideration to pass
in and investigate, they find In the
Chinese village much that will repay
their curiosity. This artificial village
is peopled by Chinese, who have como
to II directly from their Canton and
Fowcbow homes. and have had no OPP
portunity to lose the dlstinctiveness
of their nationality and domestic hab-
It's and occupations. They have con-
structed Chinese quarter after the
real Chinese fashion. and they deport
themselves just as they did In China
few weeks ago. The Chinese restau
rant. with its "chop suey." tame
Chez" 'boiled chicken and birds
nests" sharks fms" and what not.
is the only thing about the village
which is reminiscent of Race street,
and there is not the suggestion of rats
stew about the place. yet one can pro-
cure here all the Chinese delicacies
that he would expect to find in Canton,
which are prepared by Canton cook.
who never cooked meal outside of
China until he arrived at the exposi-
ton grounds.
The dexterlty with which a Chinese
can use clumsy weapon to perform Il
delicate operation has been strikingly
illustrated in the kitchen of the vii
lage. where some OF the cooks, for
want of less clumsy instrument were
found using meat cleaver with which
to pare potatoes. curling with this
strange makeshift pairing almost as
thin as piece of paper. This Is but
one evidence of the cleverness with
which these def people perform their
domestic operations.
The wonder of the Chinese at the
exhibits In the main building, which
seem to have marvellous attraction
for them, is not greater than their
wonder ut the performances In the
"old plantation" where colony of
negro "mammys." their husbands and
their pickaninnics 60 through the
queer antics Of the southern cakewalk,
dances. songs and curious gyrations of
their old slavery days. 1t must be con.
fessed that an old plantation bell and
the imitation of some log and mud
cabins are the only inanimate sug.
gestions of southern slave life, but the
men and women and the pickaninnies
are the real thing. One OF the mann
mys" has short kinky hair as white
as n burst cotton pod; lips half as
large as her forehead and n mouth
which actually extends from ear to
ear.
Near the plantation, the official
photographer of the exposition will
take the visitors photograph In tho
twinkling of an eye. In the nearby
show house one pays to see the birth
OF the American flag. Two great res
taurants with amply supplied bars;
several low priced, but enticing lunch
cafes, score of lemonade and soda
water fountains. ice cream saloons and
candy shops are interspersed up and
down either sidewalk
The bloody encounter between a
plucky female wild beast trainer
which afforded half hours excite
ment the other day, gives some idea
OF what may be found in the Hagen
back arena. Although episodes like
this are not part Of the regular per-
Torrance, there Ia enough excitement
In the Hagenback exhibitions to satisfy
the most ardent admirer of realistic
wild beast shows. The lolling and
languid beauties OF the east who serve
bewitching smiles. Mocha coffee and
Turkish cigarettes in proportion to the
generosity of the visitors at the Cairo
Coffee Parlors. are free to the public
gaze. Their faces and their costumes
are both aflame with color. They are
beautiful at distance. Those who
come within the charm OF their eyes
declare that they are also bewitching
upon closer inspection.
In the theater attached to the cafe
one must pay an admission fee. Here
he finds all of the attractions which
pertain to a real Cairo theater. The
dancing belongs to that curiously en-
ticing and languishlng character pc
culiar to the Egyptian dancing girl
The other attractions need scarcely be
referred to. since the dancing is al
most the chief attraction of the DER
Torrance.
Quite large house is required to
hold the people who go to see the
smallest woman in the world, and the
home of the educated horse, a short
distance away. has its fair share of
patronage. Whether the wonders
which patience and intelligence has
enabled its trainer to teach the ami
NAL, or the freak of nature as display
ed in the tiny Cuban midget, is the
greatest cause for establishment, seems
a question.
moving picture performance and a
glass factory In full operation are other
Esplanade features which attract the
multitude.