The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1900-09-05
OUR PARIS EXPOSITION LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
PARIS, FRANCE, August 20, 1900.
No little interest Is manifested n
the coming horse show OF the Paris
Exposition, which will open on sun
day, September 10th. The amount OF
mouey TO be distributed in prizes Is
more than half million frances.
The exact amount in American money
is $4,000. There will also be a large
number OF medals awarded L. Is ex.
pected that the entries from Eng land
and the United States will be large.
The show Is divided into seven sections,
the first being for thoroughbreds, pure
bred Arabs and Anglo Arabs, with
over Sl2,OO0 in prizes, the first prize
for the thorough bred stations being
81 200, and Tor the thoroughbred mares
$500. The second section is for Barbs
the third Tor trotters OF French, Ameri-
can and Russian breeds the fourth for
half.breods, which including classes
for the English Hackney and Cleve-
land the fifth for ponies, the sixth for
cart horses and the seventh for don
keys.
IL is reported that the Sultan of
Turkey will send large number of
pure blooded Arabian horses. Tbcv
, will doubtless be good specimens OF
their kind, but you may set it down
that nothing oriental Is excellent. |
use the word etymolOg ically. Nothing
oriental can excel the objects OF its
class in America or Europe. They not
only do not excel, but nothing oriental
| is equal to the object of its class in
America or Europe. Pve not been in
the Orient, but I've spent months at
| Ntar Inv, z.af-
| the best productions OF all countries
| were shown. The Arab horse is a
tough, hardy, Intelligent little animal,
but he ls no tougher or more intelli.
gent than the thoroughbred horse OF
Europe or America, and he is out
classed In size, speed and endurance by
the latter.
There has been no less romance
about the Oriental or Circassian wo.
man than there has been about the
Arabian horse, but photography is u
stern dlslilusionist. Harems have been
photographed. The beauties of the
harcm, as they are called, have been
exposed to the ruthless camera and
the world is now familiar with the
dark, coarse, heavy type of nodded
rather than chiseled features, lacking
in vivacity and spiritually. No artist
would select Turkish woman for a
model, and no American with an edu.
Gated taste would want one of them for
a companion.
There is no lack OF Turkish bellies
here in the Exposition. The side
shows abound with them and bevics oI
them can be seen in the dance de ven.
tre for one franc. Some of them are
real types and are doubtless the best
specimens OF their class from the thea
tres OF Constantinoplc, Scpturi and
CAIRO, but mixed among them are girls
from Chicago, New York, or they may
be from Paris, Kentucky or Cairo
illlnols. 1T Is not easy or Important tC
learn their whence or whittier; but
thcy arc Americans sans doute and the
way they outclass the sluggish houris
OF the Orient when it comes their turr
To dance Is convincing, but not moral
one OF the most striking buildings
IN that collection OF striking architec
tural types, the street OF nations, is the
pavilion OF Bosnia, Herzogovina re
production OF an ancient donjon, with
annexes elaborately decorated With
In Is shown, among other things, {
room sumptuously furnished and oc
cupied by wax figures, representing
the interior OF q harem OF Bosnia. In
Other apartments more modern eX
hibits, in the form OF vases, textiles
etc, are shown. There is an interest
ing collection OF photographs on glas.
representing the most beautiful view.
OF the Balkan Switzerland
The building OF Servia Is in tn,
purest byzantine style. 1t has eigh
domes, the central and tallest being
upwards of eighty feet in height. Ir
marked contrast is the Danish build
ing rustic edilice in wood, q repro
ductlon of country house in Jutland
The Persian ediiiCc, rectangular il
shape, flows with color--vio!ct, blue
green and red. AS you enter CIR
throws u perfume on you, while yor
look at the luxurious cushions anC
carpets and various objects of art
Here is where the Shah comes to res,
from the fatigues OF sightseeing al
the Exposition. Near by is the low
thick set house OF Finland, apparently
built TO resist tho most powerful blasts
IT is copied from one OF the ancient
chapels OF tho country, and contains d
complete exhibition OF fishing appa
ratus.