Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08
FINE SHOWING MADE
IN FRENCH COLONIES.
BY WILLIAM e. NASH
Especial Correspondence the Chicago Daily
News Foreign Service.)

drawing room in Chicago, and
white straw bonnets fashionable
enough to wear on, 9Th avenue are
products that a foreigner scarcely
expects to find in the tropical negro
3 possessions of France. Yet it is a
tact that some Of the most beautiful
inlay work in the world is done in
brench Guinea, part Of French West
Africa, a region which abounds in
valuable mahogany wood, and that
one Of the industries for which the
chocolate-colored natives Of NADIA
gascar are famous is the Inanufac-
ture of women's hats. Specimens of
these products are on exhibition at
the French Colonial Exhibition in
Marseilles. They furnish only two
OF the many surprises offered by
this surprising e. position.
Cross sections of the life and seem
cry Of Morocco, Algeria, West Afri-
ca and Indo-C China have been trans
planted to Marseilles with an amaz-
ing fidelity of detail. One expects
here to see oranges, bananas and
rice on exhibition; in reality one
finds animation, art and cookery of
the highes~ order. Verify, the French
have much to learn in the modern
art of advertising. In the United
States or Great Britain an exotic
picture like the Marseilles exposi-
ton would attract millions of peo-
pie as visitors.
From Africa and China
Behind the palace of Indo-China
IA Oriental street has arisen, with
shops, pagodaed houses, priests of
Buddha and a s warm Of coolies
wearing the lacQuered cork helmets
necessary to ward of the rays of
tropical sun. A little to one side
stands a replica of the tomb OF the
emperor of AMMAN in Hue. Birds
OF half the species known to the
east fly about an ayiary near at
hand.
Farther on, within huge, grim
looking pile dedicated to West Afri.
ca, lies a complete negro village. A
brace OF slim, comely black maid
ems, manufacture gaudy leather
goods for sale to spectators. A tall,
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with a shock Of hair so thick that
1t cannot be called wool, works
primitive forge. He wears a turban
and claims to belong to the Moorish
rather than to the negro race. Next
to him lounge some coal black Sou
danese, with gashes carved in their
cheeks. Pickaninnies almost as max
ed as nature made them beg for
pennies. About a sluggish lake in
the center of the village stands a
>,roup of straw huts perched On
piles. Crude dugouts float. among
the rushes of the lake. Camels,
goats and antelopes browse sleepily
in a typical African farnyard.
In the cool of the evening, aft r
tho sun has gone down, a corps
OF Chinese ballet dancers, lent by
the king Of Cambodgia, gives an ex-
hibit on the steps of the Temple of
Angkor-Vat. No girl in the corps
is over 16 years Of age. They be-
long to Sisowath, king of Cambod-
gia, as personal property and ordi-
narily are never permitted outside
the walls of his palace in Prom
PENN.
Odd Taxis at the Fair
Funny little vehicles mounted on
high wheels, drawn by Annamite
coolies hitched to shafts, dash visi-
tors about the exposition as fast as
their human horses can trot. Call
ed "push-pushes' in French, these
carriages resemble Japanese rick
shaws.
Besides Orientals, there is a grand
mixture of African races to be seen,
including yelled ladies from Algeria,
sheiks from the Sahara, Arabs, Ber-
bers, Tuaregs, Moors and blacka-
moors.
AT the end of June the emperor
or AMMAN will come to Europe to
see the show at Marseilles. Almost
every day there is something doing
Banquets, concerts, parades, process
sions and military reviews delight
the heart of the visitor. The expo
sition is even more brilliant by night
than by day.
Some of the pavilions which house
the exhibits of individual colonies
are veritable palaces of art. For
instance, the temple Of Angkor-vat.
Palace Of Indo-C China, which cost 16..
0oo.Oo0 francs to reproduce, is said
to have been the most gorgeous
puiidlng In the Orient in its time.
From Timbuctoo
Next comes the fortress-mosque
of Senegal. modelled partly after a
building in mysterious Timbuctoo
studded with spikes and endowed
with an air of ferocity appropriate
TO the architecture of darkest Africa.
Within. in contains series of
panoramas representing the life of
Dahomey. Guinea. Pogolard. Sene-
gal, Mauritania, the Ivory coast and
the Sahara. Then follow the homes
Of Morocco and Algeria, the first
with beautiful mosaics and an in.
spring minaret. the second with
charming courtyard set off by a daz.
zling little onyx fountain.
During the course of a long. lonr
history, extending back to the time
of the Phoenicians, Marseilles. fire
port Of the Levant, has seen many
q strange bit of color, but never any
thing as picturesque as the present
fair. Yet Marseilles is one of the
most cosmopolitan cities in Europa
a gateway for North Africa, Svris
and the Far East. The Cannebiere,
a famous thoroughfare section. is
noted for its medley of costumes.
Enlarging MarseilIes
Although it is even now the laAg.
est port in France, plans are under
way to make Marseilles the biggest
harbor in the world, a port carable
OF absorbing the trade of Antwerp
Rotterdam and Genoa. OF course,
time and money will be needed to
realize such an ambition, yet work
IS actually under way to start it.
The plan naturally falls into three
parts:
I. Opening and development Of a
large salt lake called the 'Eteng de
Berre," which at present lies uhex.
plotted few miles from the city.
2. Construction of the largest tun-
mel in the world between NIarseilles
and the Etang de Rerre to aooo,,ov,r