Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-01

is that of the Improvement of the condition
of the working classes. Each country,
therefore. put its best foot forward, and
the optimism of the charts displayed was
calculated to convince one that this world
was rapidly becoming the best of all posi-
BILE spheres. Statistics demolished misery
wholesale. and the charts seemed to be
crushing poverty out of existence.
Even Russia luxuriated in all kinds of
model buildings and model institutions, and
all names of societies, represented by pic
lures and by graphics for increasing the
well being OF the subjects of the car.
Italy has more than her fair share of
space. and has fully taken advantage of it
to prove that the favored peninsula is a
land of milk and honey, high art and ex-
ceeding comfort. Hungary has a brave
show, wherein the life of the workman,
principally the agriculturist and the vim
tager. is exhibited in the most glowing
colors. This must be taken literally, for
the scenes are depicted in oils. The artist
has however, selected cadaverous volumes,
or his colors have betrayed him, and the
effect is not alt0get her happy. A picture
of Sunday Repose' is particularly gloomy
The tired and wan workmen seem to sit
limp and atmless on garden seats staring
at vacancy.
The French section occupies 60 per cent
of the entire space. This is not undeserved
for there is so much evidence of thought
of work and of high efficiency displayed in
their ms .ructive object lessons that the
section might we'll serve as model of how
to do these things. The note mainly. PLAYED
upon is that of the Improvement of the
condition OF the workingman by means of
cooperative unions and mutual benefit as
sociations. The workman has greatly
wrought out his own salvation; helped
however, by light from above He is shown
in engravings before" and after" and we
become reconcied to the nineteenth con-
fury.
For a quiet little nook in this exposition
commend me to the little room where Hol-
land exhibits her economics. l sat there
alone restfully. a dim, religious light en-
tered the little sanctuary. Everything was
fresh and clean and unspotted from the
world. The exhibits were few and not OBJ
trust1Ve; model school was the principal
thlng. Not soul entered to disturb my
reyeres. and | felt a Rip Van Winkle feel
ing steal over me.
The United States Exhibit.
But there was work to be done Near nv
IS the American rooTn-a little chamber
more neat than solemn" as Byron saws of
Dantes tomb. | was surprised to see all
America even all social and economic
America, in so small a space After what
mad observed in the French section 7
could not believe that the industrial side of
America could Be exhibited in such scanty
SUinpaf imeht. AS matter cf fact the ex-
h.b.ts are absolutely Inadequate though
perhaps the exigUity OF the space afforded
by the French authorities may stlEi as a
partial excuse.
Eented by an intelligent young lacy, Miss
MoHett who not only made obscure mat
ters GEAR, and who cypoun led cla0ueu:Iy
an mat was IN show. but who revealed how
me hnl-ts OF space could be expanded by the
def arrangement Of huge photosrau!,ic VOL
ufnes, which occupied only q Ii.?itni sup,r-
hclal ARA, but which opened into long Wis
las OF information and delight The great
note OF America was the grand scale of in
dustrial developments Of what growing.
OF cotton growing, of railways Of lumber
of everything.
In the same room is a very fine and in
teresting exhibit, that ilIustrdIicp The nro-
gress OF the negro race AT first there was
apparently not much to see bu. here also I
had the good fortune to find an excellent
guide, Mr. Galloway, cOlored gentleman
anu one OF the most intelligent representa-
tves l have met. He showed me- that the
standard of education among the n4eroes
was higher than that of Roulnania or of
SerNia about on par with that Of Hun
gary and hardly inferior tn that IF ItaIy
The statistics and the graphics illustrating
the home life of the negro COMPARED well
with those of SO great country as Ger
many The work Of Booker Washington
was fully eXpOundel and the products Of
the negro schools of Tuskegee so well dis
played that one could not doubt of the high
efficiency attaina BILE by negroes Mr. Gallo
way claimed for the race all those who had
negroes among their ancestry, and he
waxed So eloquent that left with the vague
idea that the negro was the coming man.
and / was less afraid of the gra1,hiCs Mr.
Galloway had shown me which proved that
the mingl;ng of the races had greatly in
creased Upon the degree Of ''miscegenatio
of the days before the war.
The American section was the only one
where Intelligent exp0nents Were in ch1rge
and that was the salvation of Ihe little
show
The English exhibits brought out the note
of sport and the physical education of the
young Of both sexes Girls were drilling
flo =
expanding their young chests in pictures on
the wall. notable exhibit also was a