The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26

ana exported 10 the fair from Turkey,
4 IS a sideshow. She is the sole and only
object on view IN dime museum, ana,
while she isn't So superiatiVely lovely
as to be a human curiosity, she and
Z her surroundings make a noteworthy
exhibit. How do I know she is ma
/ tive OF Germany? She is Of an un-
mistakable German type. and little
of the German language which she
4 spoke was correct in accent, while her
Turkish was declared by a linguist TO
pc faulty with German pronunciation
But we needn't doubt that she is from
a harem in Turkey, as she says. There
is no reason to deny her proud asser-
ti0n that she has been one OF Turk
ish uObiemaus coucubiues. she IS
large and prOp0rtionate, smooth
+ skinned brunette attired decorouS4y
and displayed artfully. The room is
dark with tapestries and the air is
+ scented with musk. The woman reclines
on q low divan with cushions to make
3 the pose easy anQ graceful. a thick
veil is attached to her jeWeled cap, but
( il is draped from the back of the head
and over the couch without hiding her
face. Her arms are bare, except for
strings of beads, but her corsage IS
modesty high and her skirt reaches
10 her ankles. exposing little above her
stockinged and slippered feet. Flowers
are iu "a vase on tabaret at one side
Of hey. On the Goaf at the other side
stands one of those oriental appara-
fuses. made of brass and glass. which
enables her TO draw tobacco smoke
from a pipe bowl through water be
( fore it reaches her mouth by the way of
/ long, flexible tube.
The woman daIlies with that smoke
machine when visitors are present.
emitting a little lazy cloud from her
clips often enough to keep the pipe from
going out. But a half-emptied box OF
( cigarettes lies beside a coffee cup with
/ in reach TO indicate her habit as
smoker, Opium2 If her Turkish ex-
/ perenCe has engeuuered an appetite
/ for the opiate she doesn't let the spec
tatOr see any sign of it, Beer2 IL she
INDUCES a German liking for the
/ brewed beverage she keeps that out Of
sight, too.
/ While we are on the topic of a wo-
man born in one country and brought
I TO St. Louis as an exhibit from another
! let me describe three French sirens
made in America, Two weeks ago the
/ Palais du Costumes was mentioned i'm
this correspondence as a big but imam
innate show of clothes worn by wax
/ figures. tt had been storehoused since
/ the Paris exposition until brought to
the Pike. where it langUished during
/ May and half through June People
/ who went into it came out unsatis-
/ fed because they had seen nothing
alive. One day Rudolph Aronson, the
theatrical exploiter, came along.
/ Your acre Of past and present
clothes would be all right" he said,
/ If you had located it alongside the
! French government building, or any
/ where else than on the Pike. But here
( the people expect 10 find everything
alive and kicking, especially If it's from
I Paris"
Aronson is an old hand at the show
Z business and knew what he was talk
/ ing about The Frenchmen turned
( their enterprise over to him. He has
put q stage into the PaIais de Cos
/ tunes ana on il placed among other
/ things, three girls who, although they
came here from Paris theatres, were
! born and bred in New York. I don't