Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1900-08-02
EXPOSITION LETTER.
From Our. Regular Correspondent

PARIS, FRANCE, July 0, 1900.
There is no unit or rule for &C.
curatelY measuring or comparing
international Expositions, but, af-
ter six weeks study, | think the
Chicago Exposition was in many
respects not inferior to this in Paris.
There is more and better class art
about this show; the ensemble is
more artistic, and it would be hard
to excel the beautiful scene that
stands before you when the sun
light or electric light Eliminates
the domes and minarets that adorn
the space between the Champs
Elysees and the Invalides. There
are more traces Of the artistic spirit
among the exhibits than at Chica-
go, and, in truth, for an exhibition
Of European art do not say the
very best, but at least the second
best-the exhibition of Paris in 1900
would be hard to beat. But that
is all, wonderful to say, seeing that
some years have elapsed since the
Chicago Worlds Fair, and that
great progress in many directions
might have been expected.
fass Aia;..s~ ..sss4.s s.s,s.A;>AAlAla s,As q
the increase in the number OF Wis
itors. Paris is not, or seems not
to DO. more crowded, but the Elk.
position is. Last Sunday, just 40
people under half a million passed
the gates. The price of tickets had
come down to 10 cents, which may
have, must have, had some effect,
and there was q Christian EndeavoI
pilgrimage or an English trades ex.
cursion, 5000 or 1000 strong,
which helped to fill. A few weeks
ago, the universal remark was
"What a crowd of Germans 70 and
in truth, Paris was, as someone pui
it, for the time more German than
Berlin. Wherever you went, on
the boulevards, in the Exposition,
in the cafes, on the tops of the ON
nibusses, ("in the air." as thu
French say there they were thou
sands OF them, in spectacles, nearly
all in straw hats, and dressed as il
they all had the same tallor-ol
none. 1t was a fresh German inva
sion, and not wholly popular one
For popularity in that way, the in
vasion must be American, for tn
latter visit the shops first, and thei
sees the Exposition from the Fife
tower. One cafe owner bitterl,
complained to me that Germans ha,
completely driven away his regula
customers, ''and they drank N
wine," he concluded sadly "onl
| beer"
| Not that the anti eutonic feel
ing is just now very strong il
France. 1t seems rather to be slow
ly but surely dying out, not Q
much because the French hate tn
nation that took Alsace. Lorrain
from them in 1870 less, as becaus
they hate the nation that beat theI
at Waterloo, and stood them off q
Fashoda more. Besides, though @
different religions, there is much i
common between the Germans an
the French. Both are Continents
nations, they have what the Frenc
are pleased to call a ''largeness" Q
ideas that is known and highly an
tipathetic to the Anglo. Saxon
whether he be American or Eng
lish. German Professionalism of tn
land of Luther. is not in reality 9
antipathetic to French Catholicism
as is American or English Protest
antism. And why? Simply be
cause the Protestant of the lai
ter is too decent, too moral, 70
French tastes and French tolerance
The German is not nearly so shock
ed by French latitude of Opinion
aud speech and conduct as is til