The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-24

III the EQucdIlOnal DullQluB JONI
Macdonald shows his handiwerk in
the splendid arrangement of the work
of the head and the fingers of the reg
ular and the manual training schools
Of Kansas. The colleges, too, gre well
represented. The State university has
fifty large pictures showing its build
ings and its various departments. The
State Normal is here in picture and
book and manuscript and likewise the
Agricultural college. The frieze of the
exhibit is a series of graphic state
ments in large letters and figures say
ing what Kansas has done in the way
of schools and Institutions of learning.
The Topeka schools nave hundreds of
individual displays, and a glance
through the bound volumes and at the
thousands of pictures and sketches will
reveal many familiar names of young
scholars and sketch artists. Any teach
er of this state may spend hours in
this department and be interested, as
well as instructed and the same may
be said of the pupil. None is too young
or too old to learn. This Fair is a
great and wonderful educational insti-
tuition. Education really mas all build
ings for its own.
Over in the Horticultural building
Kansas also is prominent. Her apple
display is magnificent. The culture of
fruits is simply one of the thousand
lines of pursuits and industries that
receive exhaustive attention at the
Fair. A follower, of any calling could
spend days and even weeks in simply
investigating the status and progress
of his own business. So the student
or practitioner in the growth of fruits
could devote all the reasonable time
he has to spare to his own particular
occupation. Here is a great building
to this branch of agriculture, and
there are probably more than a score
of other buildings in which horticul-
ture is given large space and atten-
ton. It is the way with all displays
at the Fair. France has big exhibits
in many portions of the grounds. so
has Italy. Germany has a big build
ing, a reproduction of an old castle.
1t is a landmark of the Exposition,
but Deutschland as the labels and
signs have it, uses acres of space in
the Palace of Manufactures, the Va
ried Arts, the Transportation, and
other buildings. To return to horti-
culturists, it has been their searching
work and experiment for thirty years
to discover a seedless apple. We have
seedless oranges but that is almost
the limit. 1t is known that the seeds
in fruits exhaust the soil and draw
heavily upon the vitality of the tree.
1t is the theory borne out by facts that
a seedless fruit is richer and the pro-
duction far more abundant. The
banana is cited as one of the pro-
life seedless fruits. Well, after all
these years of striving for an apple
without the little black pits, the goal
has been reached and in the Horticul-
tural building at St. Louis for the first
time is displayed the -seedIess apples;
a bushel of them. probably about the
only busheI in existence. The fruit
grafters are now propagating the
stock and hope to have the new va
riety on the general market before
many years. The successful outcome
of these experiments is credited to a
grower of Grand Junction, Colo
The foreign countries have been ex-
travagant in the money, pains and in
terest they have taken to show the best
of their products. The French BUILDING
is a reproduction of the famous Grand
Trianon at Versailles near Paris sur
rounded by the beautiful artificial for
ests and fountains all created by Louis
XIV, with a profiigacy of money and
a display of luxury which was one of
the causes leading up to the French
revolution. This Trianon at the Fair
is a one story building of redish hue.
located in the midst of an ample space
filed with shrubbery and grass and
surrounded by a tall iron fence. Those
who have visited the Paris suburb will
note the striking counterfeit in this
our soil Within the walls are displays
of French sculpture, furniture, pictures
and of various arts. France is con-
spicuous elsewhere. In the Manufac-
turers' building alone she has exhibits
which would almost fill one of the large
new Santa Fe shop buildings at Tope-
ka. The Kansas ladies simply went
wild over the French gowns and miIli-
merry in the French department of the
Manufa cturers' building. The men, too.
could not resist the attraction, and to
the milliner and dressmaker. the latter
particularly, it is simply a college of
ladies' tailoring. There are scores of
these wax models, draped with exquis-
lite laces and material A portion of the
exhibit is scheduled as the work of q
combination of Partisan artists of the
cloth. If you are travelling with your
wife and daughters, and run across
these displays unawares, just make an
appointment with the remainder of
your family to meet them at the latest
possible hour in some other portion of
the grounds. The worst of it is. too,
that some of these creations are for
sale, like many other articles at the
Fair, to be delivered at the end of the
show. The Kansas farmers are said to
be buying everything now in the way
Of 1,1vnries automobiles daily IA mars