The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-11-11

high is composed of small pineapples,
and stand of bananas twenty feet high
shows the different kinds grown in the
islands.
The sugar palace stands twenty-five
feet high and is covered entirely with
sugar. This is a replica of the govern
ment building, formerly the royal palace
! of the king of Hawaii. The interior con-
tains models of plantations, sugar refn-
cries, and full exhibit pertaining to the
sugar industry. One end of the Hawaiian
building is occupied by tables and chairs,
with beautiful palms making cool green
bower where young Hawaiian girls serve
dishes of their native pineapple, while an
orchestra in a balcony above play and
sing their sweet, weird melodies. One
! soloist in particular has created furore
among all the musical critics of the coun-
try by his exquisite voice; and indeed he
was selected and brought here as the
sweetest singer of all the islands. 1t is
something of musical treat to listen to
, these brown skinned musicians, and not
ed that everyone ordered dish after dish of
the delicious pineapple for the privilege
of dallying an hour or so in that bit of
tropical scenery, spellbound by the music.
The interior of the Spokane building is
one of the greatest attractions on the
grounds. During opening week the
woman who did all the decorating was
there, explaining the work and receiving
congratulations and much well earned
praise. She told me the entire decora-
tons were in different grains the walls
and ceiling being covered by pictures
forming panels, frieze, and other artistic
formations, all picked out with a tooth
pick and pot of glue, and it occupied her
little over eight months.
There are life size portraits of Taft,
and Roosevelt, delcately shaded in nat
ural flesh tints, which are most difficult
to do; barnyard scene with hen and
chickens, boy eating watermelon, chill
dren playing, hunting scenes, panels rep
resenting fruits, and flowers, allegorical
panels figures of the Goddess of Plenty,
and others country scenes with farm
buildings, fields, trees and mountains,
others with horses and cattle, and one
picture-an enclosed field of fine fat
porkers of various sizes. All this won
derful work is formed from single kernels
OF grain, anG as life-like and perfect in
shading as though painted with brush.
| had never realized there were so manv
kinds and colors in grains, and could
hardly believe my own eyes. 1t seemed
almost past comprehension, until a long
and minute inspection satisfied me.
This same ingenious woman prepared
the entire exhibit of canned fruits and
jellles, also preserved flowers.
The building of the Arctic Brotherhood
is decorated in a similar and almost as
interesting manner; the panels and
framed pictures being composed of
pressed Alaskan flowers, grasses, grains
and butterflies. There is complete col
lection of the Alaska wild flowers, as
well as pictures formed of pansies and
other cultivated flowers. A man and
woman who had spent several years in
Alaska, gathered and prepared this en-
tire collection, which is certainly very
artistic, as well as unusual The back
grounds of all these pictures are delicate
ly shaded in oils, in landscape and cloud
effects; the foreground a field, or bunch
of the pressed flowers, arranged in an
innumerable variety of forms, and butter
flies and other winged insects sailing
over.
The japanese building is constructed
after the style of their native pagodas.
and the exhibit is one of the most beauti-
full and valuable of the Exposition: there
being large quantities of all the. rarest
and most exquisite articles of workman.
ship from the ingenious hands of this
ingenious people;
Close beside the door of the Forestry
building 1 hotited picture frame which
took my mind at once back to childhood
and the memory of photograph frames
carved from little bits of cigar box wood
by Waldo county genius. This frame
was SIX feet high, and contained twenty
thousand pieces, deliberately carved, and
made by woman of Seattle. 1t enclosed
fine large engraving ef Geo. Washing
ton and stood on the floor mounted on an
easel.
Nearly every building On the grounds
has reception room and rest room, and
some have. in addition, little kigaergar-
ten Corner, Or nursery where children are
provided with games, and cots and era
dies are filled with the tired little ones,
with matron in attendance, while the
mothers are at liberty for few hours to
enjoy the pleasures of the exposition.
On Seattle day, when there was the larg-
est attendance = $4,000 paying admis-
sion fee at the gates-th there were over1OOO
infants in arms, the larger part of the
number being cared for at the Children
Nursery during some hours of the day,
and The place was veritable baby show
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