New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-08-11

an electric brooder aid watched the
egg-laying records being kept by those
who had hens entered in the prize COM
petition. The nests were built 50 that
only one bird could occupy each and she
must stay there until released after
laying. A number was fastened to her
foot and when she delivered the goods"
she received due credit on the score card.
Among the horses exhibited thus far
were only few Percherons, magnificent
creatures they looked to me, and a
number of race horses used for matinee"
races during the fair. A number were
there from the famous Anita Baldwin
stables of Los Angeles. There were no
well-known stars among them. This
practically completes the live stock
exhibit as it is today
l am quite sure l told you about the
color and lighting plans of the Big
Fair. The statuary comes next in
wonder and interest to me but it would
take volume to tell you the little I was
able to learn about it. In general one
might say the idea expressed by the
various groups taken together is that of
the progress of the human race from
time immemorial to the present. Every
piece of statuary about the buildings
and courts has its definite place in the
story of Man, his desires, his hopes and
his achievements. Every group tells a
tale of struggle with the elementary forces
OF life, the sometimes success and some
times failure of the race to overcome
obstacles, and the everything fire of
unsatisfed desire that burns unquench-
able in the hearts of all who are not
dead. When one has the key to two or
three of the larger symbolical groups it
is not difficult to read the rest with a
fair degree of accuracy and the guide
books are quite helpful. The only
statuary not made of the same material
as that of the buildings is in the Fine
Arts Courts. Here one finds marble
and bronze pieces, some of heroic size,
others SO small as to be unnnoticed were
it not for their effective placing in EN-.
brasures of the walls with a background Of
trees between them and the walls to
throw them into clear-cut relief. An
exposition of all that is best in American
architecture and sculpture is to be found
within the Walled City. There was
also an exhibit of fine Italian marbles in
one of the Industrial Palaces which ap.
pealed to me greatly altho l persume
most of it had been executed for use in
drawing rooms and it's object was merely
the achievement of grace and beauty.
One thing struck me very forcibly and
that was the vast number of exhibits
made by Japan and the infinite patience
displayed by their workers. l had
known that their hand-carving and their
embroidery are very wonderful and re-
present the product of ceaseless care
and generations of labor but never did
I realize it as when I found everywhere
l went thru the palaces that the Oriental
displays occupied large portions; of the
floor space and in everything shown
was a perfection of detail that we
westerners do not dream Of. The Jap
anese can do everything we can do and
much that we would not even attempt.
The impression gained is that they as
people are world old. They have ap-
parently been sleeping for ages but it
has been the watchful sleep which al
lows nothing to pass unnoticed. Those
sleeping centuries were but centuries of
contemplation and preparation for the
struggle between the Yellow and the
White Races and when the Caucasion
matches himself against the Japanese he
is going to meet up with the cunning and
the ability to wait which the little yell
low mans forebearers have provided him
with. l never believed in the yellow
PERIL nor in the necessity for defense
against the Oriental but when l looked
at the evidences of his ability on every
hand and saw how insidiously the Jap
panese have worked their way into the
midst of things in the West, am almost
persuaded that California is justified in
her alarm.
The German and English exhibits
were very small and here too were dis
played race characteristics. Nearly
everything in the English displays was
placed in glass cases with only an oc-
casional attendent near to take orders
for the fine linens and china which formed
the bulk of their exhibit. In the Ger
man booths were to be found every va
riety of small article, hundreds of the
nick-nacks that lure the evasive quarter
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