The Newtown bee., 1901-07-26

INTO YOUR LIFE-AN INVERTED T
 AN HONEST RESPECT FOR UNCLE SAM AND HIS DOINGs-wHY DID WE GET INTO SUCH A ATANGLE?-THEO OLD AND THE NEw-THE BIG BULLY AND THE LITTLE FELLOw-sHIPs OF THE LINE-THE FAMOUS SAIL AROUND LAKE HORN-A PROTEST AGAINST MARRYING WITHOUT MINISTER GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT.
 gates of the great Exposition. It has
 taken us some time to get there, but
 we are there. The best way for you
 to enter the grounds for the first time
 is through the Water Gate. At that
 point 1t is best to get your first inn
 pression, and the first impressions. you
 know, are everything. Several friends
 advised us to get our first view by pass
 ing in at that gate, and perhaps that way. Nobody likes to take advice, but
 everybody likes to give it. What
 splendid lives we should all live if we
 would be willing to profit by the eXpe-
 rience of those who have passed over
 the road before us, but we don't profit,
 we hew out our own little path, and
 every life cuts line through the'WOrld
 never traced before. All this being
 true, I don't believe you'll go in at the
 water gate; you'll climb up some other
 way. The water gate is little out of
 the way, somewhat hard to get at, and
 it's a good deal easier to go with the
 oprn nvx,l Iii of
 advice, gratis: Take gOndola ride be-
 fore you buckle on the harness and
 really settle down to the work of
 ''doing" the Exposition. Lazily re-
 cling in the gondola and letting your
 jaunty gondolier do all the work, it is
 first rate to get the general lay out
 of the grounds. Now under bridge;
 now into the beautiful expanse of a
 lake; now by some heavy clump of
 foliage that dips it's green-embroidered
 fringe in the rippling water; now in full
 view of the great electric tower; now
 on. theloutskirts of the grounds where
 the stiffness is so profound that you
 would think the world with it's many
 distractions far, far away; now round
 ing point to have a vision of lOveli
 you awake with start from your dream and say, quite unconscious of
 the effort; "Oh! Yes, it is a dream, a dream that floats through the stilly
 air of the river that we call Old
 Times and stays with you for many day. Upon that river are many craft and many sail that ever and anon come up from out the mist and loom
 before you in full view; but no ship is
 lovelier and none spreads it's white- winged sails more fair than that which bears the name "Pan-American ExpO- sition, 1901" The whole fair is a dream. Everything is so different from from the way you see see things in this go to the fair, first, to have a little poetry put into my nature, just to al- low few rough edges to be knocked off, and see how it feels to be for a while in place where every vision is a rapture and every moment a delight.
 If you go into the Exposition as the crowd do, by the Elmwood avenue gate, you will not think that you have missed much. It's pretty good way to go in, and certainly would make it appoint to enter that way at least once. the lake, you soon come to the en- trance proper to the Exposition. From the Triumphal bridge, comprehen- sive view of the grounds can be ob- tained. 1 need not attempt to give you plan of the grounds. It would be, when I had finished, all Greek to you, and would be quite problem for me to get it strengthened out now my
 self. You can buy every morning as you enter, for five cents, a program of what is going on during the day, and on this is miniature plan which you will have some amusement with in making square with the buildings. The beauty of the whole thing is, though, that all begins and ends in the Court of the Fountains. This is like the perpendicular line in an inverted T. The main buildings are grouped around and along it, the spaces be- tween forming minorinner courts, and these minor inner courts opening out on the park system. Whenever you get lost, ask to be directed to the Court of Fountains, and when you get there, stand still and look around you and get your bearings. It is rather amusing to go in at one door of huge building, say the Manufacturers, come out at another door on the other side, and be as completely turned about and be- logged as if you had been given three think, if 1 were you, should study a | little phrenOlogy before 1 went. When l you come back, you will either decide that you bump of locality is prodigious or that microscope could not reveal the slightest trace of it.
 They call the Buffalo Fair, you know, the Rainbow City," "What's in name ?" Why, good deal, when the name exactly describes what you see. The blending of soft colors here is beautiful. The lightblue in the dome of the Government building lifted up against the sky is charming relief to the fierce white glare of the | pavement at your feet. And, just by | way of parenthesis, las Prof Elwell | used to remark to his class at Amherst | College), let me suggest that you take along some smoked glasses; you will thank me for the suggestion and find | them quite restful to the eyes,
 Let us go into theGovernment build ing, seeing that we have begun to talk about it. It is 600 feet long by 13O wide; that is about as big as any, and that is a pretty good place to begin. When we were there, so many of the exhibits were not in place that we found it quite delightful to take look at the finished arrangements of Uncle Sam. The old gentleman with the striped pantaloons generally gets what he aims at; and learned from what sawat the other end of "York State," to have great deal of respect for what our government does. Do you know, after saw the hospital tents and their splendid equipment, everything suited to do the right thing in the quickest