News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-06-02
BETTY AT THE FAIR
Letters of the Panama Pacific Expo.
sition by Florence Livingston
SAN FRANCISCO,

of the fruit blending into painting O
the wall and giving the effect of an appl
orchard in harvest time. Jars of Pre-
, cessed fruit nearby show an astonishin
e variety produced in Canada and indcat
that the beauty which has been accom-
plished, with apples alone, might hav
: been continued indefinitely if space ha
permitted.
I China's building ism It a building at all
1t is series of bright pagoda structures
ranged around garden and representing
the Forbidden City," All the material
and even the ornamental dwarf trees
which are many hundred years old, were
brought from China. The buildings
which arrived in knock-down con dtion
were erected by Chinese workmen aG
mitted to this country by special act o
Congress. / am told that these workmer
made the most curious silhouettet
against the skyline because they wore
Chinese costume and used their owr
strange implements, which are totally
unlike any that we know.
This enclosure is chiefly for receptions
since elaborate displays have been made
in the palaces. The rooms, however, are
well filled with characteristic furniture
and pictures. There are tables and
chairs and desks with inlays of ivory
and porcelain; there are teakwood tables
there are screens and wall pieces of cam
phor wood, intricately carved by hand to
depth of an inch or more, so that the
| figures and trees stand out as if they had
| been executed separately and applied to
the background. 1t appears to be moth
| ing for a Chinaman to spend year on
one of these carvings. There are many
pictures which are embroidered. Can
you imagine an energetic dog or feroc-
ious lion made out of stitches of the soft
est silk and giving the effect of the most
realistic painting? One has to walk up
close to realize that one is looking at
needlework. A long narrow gallery is
hung with allegorieal paintings in water
color on panels If paper.
Some old Chinese coins have been care
fully framed and accompanied by an ex
PLANTATION which begins: "These ancient
cash were found when planting
taro." Sometime daddy, dear, want to
60 to China or Japan and learn my Ian
guage all over again, with picturesque
elements on top.
had the most charming experience
in the afternoon, when was so fortunate
as to be included in an elaborate Orien-
tai function, a reception given by the
Imperial tJapanese Commission to the
Woman's Board of the Exposition. The
setting was the reproduction of the Tenn
pie Garden of Kin Kaiju, in which the
japanese building stands. The first
structure back of the public tea room has
single reception room in the midst of
an encircling porch on the lower floor,
and above IS veranda that looks out,
ON the four sides, upon the band con-
course, the inside Inn, the spreading i'm
mensty of the Palace of the Fine Arts.
the encampment of the Marine Corps,
and, as a background, the ever-changing
coloring of the quiet harbor.
The gallantry and exaggerated courtesy
of these little people is like the old
school etiquette that has entirely disap-
peared in this country. Ientered through
a small home of hospitality which joins
the main building, and here 1 was re-
ceived with low bows and offerings of ar
tifcial cherry bloom and souvenir show
ing silk moth and cocoon resting on a
leaf of silk. enjoyed tea and rice cakes
on the upper porch, where could watch
the dainty, highborn Japanese women
mingling in the festivities.
Here had chat with Commissioner
General Yamawaki, an honor which SO
overwhelmed me that dropped my rice
cake at his feet. Involuntarily his eyes
wavered, but Immediately he steadied
them again, for on no account would his
courtesy permit him to recognize an avk-
wardness on the part of guest. With
their fine instinct for making one feel at
ease, it is no wonder that the Japanese
are particularly fond of hospitality,
which in the lower classes manifests it.
self in cherry fetes, picnics, pilgrimages,
and numerous days of public rejoicing.
As was walking through the Agricul-
ture Palace the other day, pictures of the
East began to float through my mind
pictures of green meadows and clear
streams, of cows browsing on the hill
sides, lying in the shade of elm trees, or
sticking their cold noses between the
bars of the gate. Then l found that l
was definitely shifting an odor that had
suggested these scenes, and traced it to
its source. The source proved to be the
largest cheese that Tor anyone else
ever saw. 1t weighs 5000. pounds; and
if you have absorbed that fact, I'll give
you some more statistics to supplement
it. 1t took 10000 pounds of milk-the
output of % factories for one day-and is
the largest cheese that has ever been
turned out in one piece. 1t is four feet
six inches high, and 79H inches in diam
eter. In June this is to be cut up and
distributed among the visitors.
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