The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-08-05

makes you doubt the inference. Seated
there are half a dozen Chinese in their
flowing robes of silk.
The newspapers are full of startling
tales these days from Pekin, and the piv-
otal point of most cabegrams is the in
tense hostility that exists between the Chi
nese and the Russians. English newspa-
pers persistently hint that Tartar machin-
atoms have brought about the Boxer trou-
bles, so that Russia might have pre-
text for rushing in and grabbing terri
tory, and the same journals give the i'm
preston that the F1owery Kingdom is less
inimcal to Christians in general than to
voracious Russia in particular. The man
from anywhere who comes down those
Trocadero steps and tumbles upon six
Cinnamon sitting placidly happy in the
Russian vestbule is likely to think he is
dreaming.
Standing whereabouts he sees men in
Russian uniforms, between whom and the
subjects of the son of heaven the best of
good feeling obviously exists. Then the
visitor realizes that the French orator
must be right and that the exhibition real
ly is a festival of peace and brotherhood.
Following the example of nature. which
made them a sort of geographical neigh
bors, the exposition authorities, with the
cordial concurrence of both nations, have
allotted the Russians and the Chinese adj
joining strips of territory that isolate them
from the rest of mankind, and enable them
to live in harmony that is most pctur-
esQuely effective.
The visitor has scarcely reached the foot
of the Trocadero stairway before he is
confronted by corner tower of the Rus
so-Asiatic palace, over the door of which
is the notice:
Trans-Siberian Railroad.
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There is a train inside that carries trav-
elers over that long route in an hour.
the trip being accelerated by Imagination
infiamed by a moving panorama. When
the trains runs into the sacred city, or
the deluded traveller fancies it has, he de-
seconds from the luxurious Pullman.
passes through the railway station, and
then out into the streets of what surely
looks like the loveliest corner of a Chinese
metropolis. The most stolid European or
American is bound to be enchanted when
he looks around and to forget that he is
really in Paris. On all sides one beholds
captivating specimens Of Monaghan archi-
tecture-houses that look like pictures cut
from Chinese screen, brilliant in color,
odd ana fanciful in shape, fascinating or
weird in their decorations, with dragons
insects, flashing many hued birds, and
effiges of the funnyfaced little men and
NViltn ldnllAaF 10 our eyes since
hood, carved In stained woods. projecting
from every side. In doorways and win
dow stills on balconies and in the gar
dens, there are flowers everywhere; and
the pagodas and painted roofs overhead
blend with the thick-leaved branches of
the trees. leading irresistibly 10 the
thought, This is the land Of the pictur-
esque, the veritsble F'lowery Kingdom"
Cinnamon at Home in Paris.
Sitting on the aporches before their
houses or shops. or strolling nonchalantly
through the gardens. are almond-eyed &C.
lestals precisely as they may be seen in
their native land. This is China, ideal
ized. If you will. but surely having little
IN common with the squalid. dirty sights
thar affront the visitor to the Chinatown
OF many an American city. In all the
vista roundabout there is not a single
laundry. and no John Chinaman, with his
queue tucked up under his dilapidated
Mclean" cap, and In his slovenly blouse
squirting water at a wriggling shirt. Here
the whole picture is different. The yell
low men al the exposition are at their
nest; they comport themselves with dig
nifty making IL understood that they come
from classes In the vast empire which
mold themselves far above the sordid spec
linens of Celestial humanity that have
gwen Christian nations their impression
OF the ancient race.
Viewed as an ensemble or in detail, the
chinese exhibit at Paris manifests ex-
IRENE cleverness on the part of It's de-
slsners In presenting an effect that Is
true 90 life at the same time that II Is