Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-19
FAIR WANDERERS.
Visit the Indian Schools and Inspect
 Brazilian Beetles.

Brazilian Beetles.
 St Louis, Oct 1S.-He was sound asleep in the roller chair, while his wife, comfortably reclining in another chair, was engaged in an animated dis cussiOn Of Brazilian bettles with one of the guides in the Brazilian building. noticed that when she was not talk ing with one of the attaches of the building she was busily and energet- icalIy conversing with the young man who was pushing her roller chair. And all the while she was absorbing knowl- edge from every possible source her liege lord was snoozing away ill bliss ful ignorance of all that was going on about him. The warm day and the easy. rocking motion of the chair was too much for him and he yielded to. the allurements of sweet slumber. His chair bumped against the corner of a post and he awakened with a start and exclaimed, .'Now we have done all the buildings except Italy and Canada, haven't we, Emma ?'
 And just when, it comes to knowledge and intellectual attainment the sterner sex arrogantly assumes leadership. Here was a woman who was soaking up knowledge like a sponge while her lord and master was SlumD ering amid
 
 exposition.
 The Brazilian bettles were certainly worth seeing Most people think that Brazil produces nothing but coffee, and her noble pavilion towering high above the other foreign buildings would give you that impressiOne She supplies the world with coffee and it is natural that her building should be designed to ex- ploit that fact and to show her pre- Al. T.a want to see Brazilian beetles you have to % to the Brazil section of the Varied Industries building. If the Brazilian didn't do something with these big green beetles they would soon, 0venwhelm the country so they make the beetles into all sorts of ornaments decorations for box covers, jewelry and bric-a-brac. And the beetle does the best he can to assist in the process. When any one makes a threatening pass at him he draws up his six legs under himself by exuding a liquid which makes him look like Japanese lacquered ware.
 We had a great discussion this morn ing when we started out as to whether we should see how whiskey is made ur rec Queen Victoria's jubilee presents. Jane wanted to see the jubilee presents but of course John had his way and l can't say that am sorry for learned something about Whiskey did not know before. learned the pure whis- key as it comes from the still is color less, and that it gets it's peculiar ann Der or reddish yellow color from lying four years in charred oak barrels. John thinks he could easily fix up a still but when he looked at the ssmoon- shine still'' captured by United States revenue officers and pierced full of bullet-holes he quickly dropped the notion.
 much more interesting and in structiye exhibit we saw at the United States Indian industrial exhibit. Here Ss Geronimo, the famous old medicine man of whom so much has been said and written. looking not so ferocious as he did in '86 when the people ot Arizona and New Mexico were clam bring for his life He is now 76 years old and his hair is streaked with gray I gave him ten cents to see him sign his name and it was worth it. His smile of satisfaction and his flourish indicate the firm belief on his part that he is performing the greatest fea1 of his life. And he is. Here we saw Indian boys, making wagons and fur nfture, drawing, carving, weaving an6 printing, and Indian girls doing fancy sewing. baking bread, pies and cakes doing laundry work and everything pertaining to household management just the kind of school we should have for white people in every city and town in the United States.
 T. A. D.