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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: What We Saw At Madame World's Fair - Being a Series of Letters From the Twins at the - Panama-Pacific International Exposition to Their Cousins - at Home - -Author: Elizabeth Gordon - -Illustrator: Bertha Corbett - -Release Date: March 29, 2016 [EBook #51599] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT WE SAW AT MADAME WORLD'S FAIR *** - - - - -Produced by David Edwards, Chuck Greif and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -[Illustration: The dear little thing reminded us of spring rain, and -morning sunshine, and nooks in the woods where the first violets grow. -She is called “Wild Flower.”] - - - - - WHAT WE SAW AT - MADAME WORLD’S FAIR - - BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM THE - TWINS AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC - INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION - TO THEIR COUSINS - AT HOME - BY - - ELIZABETH GORDON - - AUTHOR OF - “FLOWER CHILDREN” - “BIRD CHILDREN” - ETC. - - WITH DRAWINGS BY - - BERTHA CORBETT - - SAN FRANCISCO: - SAMUEL LEVINSON·PUBLISHER - 1915 - - _Copyright 1915_ - by Samuel Levinson - - San Francisco: - The Blair-Murdock Company - Printers - - - - -CONTENTS - - - Page - -Preface v - -A Letter Home 1 - -Festival Hall 6 - -The Palace of Varied Industries 9 - -The Palace of Machinery 12 - -The Palace of Mines 14 - -The Palace of Transportation 17 - -The Palace of Manufactures 20 - -Our Hostess 23 - -The Palace of Fine Arts 25 - -The Palace of Education 28 - -What We Saw at the Palace of Food Products 31 - -The Palace of Agriculture 34 - -The Palace of Liberal Arts 37 - -The Palace of Horticulture 40 - -Our First Lesson in Sculpture 43 - -The Court of the Universe 46 - -The Court of Abundance 49 - -The Court of the Four Seasons--The Court of Flowers 52 - -Mural Paintings 55 - -What We Did in Italy 58 - -Our Visit in Tehuantepec 61 - -Our Visit to Japan 64 - -Canada the Beautiful 67 - -Our Chinese Visit 70 - -More Foreign Travel 73 - -Our Day in Sweden 76 - -The Fireworks and Illuminations 79 - -The Panama Canal Concession 82 - -Our Day on the Zone 84 - - - - -[Illustration: PREFACE] - - -_For many years it has been the dream of Madame World to have a canal -cut through the narrow strip of land between the East and the West, so -that folks might visit each other without having to go so far around._ - -_Also she thought that one family might have something which another -family might use if there were a short way to send it across._ - -_And there were other reasons: Families should know each other, and be -able to share each other’s joys and sorrows._ - -_Madame World said so much about it, that one of her older daughters -tried to get the work done, without success, and, finally, Uncle Sam -said, “Very well, Mother, I believe you are right about this; and though -I am your very youngest son, if you will let me try, I promise you that -I will cut a canal through that swampy back yard of yours, and that -your biggest ships shall float safely through.”_ - -_Then Madame World said: “Those are brave words, my son, but you have -not taken account of the difficulties in the way. Things called Fevers -lurk in the swamps ready to spring upon you, and there is also a monster -whose name is Malaria.”_ - -_“Nonsense, Mother mine,” replied Uncle Sam, “those things are born of -Fear, and I do not know Fear and will not listen to him. I will cut the -canal for you.”_ - -_So Madame World gave her son permission to go to work, and in a short -time the work was finished, and Uncle Sam presented his lady mother with -the Panama Canal._ - -_Madame World decided to celebrate the event, and sent out invitations -to her families to come to a big party which she would give. She asked -them to bring their families, and their work, and their fruits and -grains, and learn to know each other._ - -_Then she looked around for a place to picnic, where this big family -could be fed and housed, and where the elements were most friendly._ - -_Away out on the edge of the Pacific Ocean she saw the golden glow of -California’s magic city of San Francisco, and she said, “These people -have been brave under many difficulties, and they are a faithful people. -They shall have the honor.”_ - -_So that is why Madame World has given us this big beautiful Fair, which -everybody will always remember. It is the celebration of a dream come -true._ - -[Illustration: Night Illumination, Tower of Jewels.] - - - - -[Illustration: A LETTER HOME.] - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -For weeks and months we had been reading every scrap of information we -could find about the wonderful Fair which was to be given in San -Francisco, the city of our dreams. - -We had not even imagined that we could go to it, because mother could -not come until later, and then school would be in session, so when -father said that we might come with him we were more than thankful. - -Mother looked a little doubtful, but father said, “Nonsense, it is no -trick at all for me to take them.” Madame World has sent us an -invitation to her Fair and we could not think of refusing. So we came at -once. - -We have been so wishing that you could be here with us that father has -suggested that we write you a letter every day, and tell you about some -of the things that we see. - -We think it is a good plan, and we shall try to make the letters as full -of interest as possible, in the hope that we may show you something of -it, and at the same time fix it in our own memories. - -First, then, this Wonder City by the Sea is a real city, even though it -does, as we heard a lady remark today, look like a poet’s dream. - -It has a bank, and a postoffice, a hospital, a fire department, a hotel, -a street car, houses for the different families of the world to live in, -and in fact about everything which any city needs. - -The buildings and statuary are made of a kind of cement, called -artificial travertine, tinted to look like terra cotta. - -Real travertine is a pure carbonate of lime formed from dripping water -which bears a lime deposit, and is found in Rome, where it is much used -in building and for statuary. The imitation travertine was discovered by -Mr. Paul Denneville of New York, and we have to thank him for the fact -that after all day at the Fair our eyes are not in the least tired; it -is due to the fact that the material is easily tinted, that Mr. Jules -Guerin who composed the color scheme of the whole Fair was able to carry -out his ideas. - -You will remember that Mr. Guerin is the man - -[Illustration: Madame World has sent us an invitation to her Fair and we -could not think of refusing. So we came at once.] - -who makes the color pictures which we have so much admired in the -“Century Magazine.” - -The roofs are covered with artificial tiles, and the contrast between -the pinkish walls and the red of the roofs makes a picture which will -never be forgotten. - -It seems a pity that the city cannot remain, but it is not built for -permanency, father says, but is like a beautiful dream, which seems so -real that the memory stays always, and that its influence will color our -whole lives, and make each one of us better for having seen it. - -And when we got our first glimpse of the Tower! We couldn’t even say -“Oh!” We just looked at each other, and then back at the Fair city, just -to make sure we were not dreaming. - -There was the beautiful Tower of Jewels, smiling and twinkling its -shining eyes at us, and saying, “Come in, children; come in, and walk -under my beautiful blue arches, and through my magic courts, and my -sheltered gardens, and be happy, and love each other and all the -children of the world. Peace I offer you, and Plenty, and Harmony, and -Beauty. Here you are safe, and here you are welcome. Come in, my -children.” - -So in we went. The sun was shining, the blue waters of the bay were -sparkling, bands were playing, the red and yellow flags were flying in -the sweet salt breezes, and the lovely white pigeons were cooing; and -best of all, little white people, and little brown people, and little -yellow people were here and there and everywhere, all happy and smiling -and glad that they had come. - -We will tell you about the Tower. It is Madame World’s expression of joy -and satisfaction that the Canal is finished, and it is really the key to -the whole Fair. Mr. Thomas Hastings of New York designed it. It is four -hundred and forty-three feet in height, and the arch, which is the -gateway to the Fair, is sixty feet wide and one hundred and ten feet -high. - -On the pedestals are figures of men who have made the world what it is -today. There are fifty thousand jewels on the Tower, of five -colors--canary, amethyst, ruby, aquamarine, and white. These were made -in Austria, of a peculiar kind of sand which produces a very hard glass, -called Sumatra stone, and which takes a high polish. The jewels were cut -exactly like precious stones, and are called Nova Gems. - -These were set in bands of metal, and suspended from hooks, each jewel -with a tiny mirror back of it. - -When the winds move the jewels, they catch the light, and sparkle like -real gems. - -At night under the illumination of the searchlights the Tower is even -more beautiful than in the sunshine. - -We are glad that we are going to have the memory of the Tower to take -away with us. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -FESTIVAL HALL - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -For Music, whom Madame World loves very much, she has provided an -imposing palace worthy indeed for so great a goddess. - -It has a wonderful arched entrance, with statues of mythological -meanings, which father explained to us, but we liked best little Pan, -who sits at the left of the entrance. He has charmed with his pipes a -chameleon, who has come to his feet to listen to the music. - -We often amuse ourselves by wondering how many panes of glass there are -in the great dome of the hall, but father says there is no way to be -sure. - -But it is a very large hall, and will hold about four thousand people, -and is not large enough even at that. Music has so many adorers, many of -whom have made a pilgrimage to hear her, and who dislike being -disappointed. - -To this palace will come while the Fair lasts all the worshipers of -Music, and all the world’s great orchestras, with their distinguished -leaders. - -Even the Boston Symphony, which so seldom ever leaves its own beloved -city, is here for a season. - -The Goddess of Flowers and the Goddess of Music are first cousins, and -so the lovely grounds are always crowded full of the dear little Flower -people, standing on their tiptoes to catch the strains of music as they -float out from the palace. - -There are whole fields full of Pansies, in their gorgeous yellow, and -brown and purple dresses, and the golden-hearted Shasta Daisies have -crowded close up to the palace walls. The lovely Lady Hydrangeas, who -wear a different gown for each month in the year, seem eager not to lose -a note, and the dainty Heaths come hurrying and laughing up the walk -from the Avenue of Palms, beckoning the baby Blue Gums across the way to -come closer. - -The darling naughty little California Poppies, who always go just where -they please, have simply broken loose and are everywhere you go, while -the Canterbury Bells, little rogues, who were expressly told to stay in -their own back yard, have come out in front and cuddled themselves at -the feet of the Lady Eucalyptus, who has thrown her bluish-green robe -over them, so that they may stay and hear the music. - -Everything around Festival Hall is harmonious and beautiful, and the -glorious sunshine is over all, and the salt breezes from the bay, whose -work it is to keep the air always clear and health-giving, are never -idle. - -Madame World was a wise mother when she chose this spot for her Fair. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -THE PALACE OF VARIED INDUSTRIES - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -The Palace of Varied Industries, where we spend a good deal of time, is -a beautiful building in the old California Mission style, and has some -fine doorways. The statuary used around the building is meant to say -that work is honorable and desirable. - -It is wonderful how many kinds of work there are in the world. We never -stopped to think until we came to this Fair, that everything that is -made has first to be thought out. And then all the little things that go -with it have to be thought out, even to a little flower in the wall -paper, or the way icing is put on a cake. - -All Madame World’s families have sent samples of work to this palace: -There are the loveliest little hand-knitted sweater dresses for children -from the Argentine, laces from Spain, cocoanut fibre hats from the -Philippine Islands, wood-carvings from Switzerland, and some equally as -pretty from South Carolina made by boys in a private school. - -Mrs. Adelaide Robineau has some wonderful porcelains from Syracuse, New -York, which are very beautiful. - -We admired the jewelry; there are gems of all sorts in hand-wrought -mountings, both ancient and modern. - -There are wonderful opals, tinted like the gleam in a bubble, some very -lustrous pearls, which you would think were worth the king’s ransom -which you always read about in stories, but which are made from the -scales of a little three-inch fish found in Russian waters. - -We nearly forgot to tell you about the silkworm exhibition. It was the -thing we liked best in the whole palace. The silkworms eat a very great -amount of mulberry leaves, and are most inexcusably particular about -their diet, and when they are ready they go into their cocoons, and that -is the last of them. - -Only a few are allowed to become butterflies, but they are not pretty -butterflies, anyway. When they have spun enough, and just before they -would hatch and spoil the silk, they are sterilized, and then the silk -can be unwound. They were doing that when we saw them, and they have a -delicate machine which winds the silk into nice soft yellow skeins, -ready to be woven. It is one of California’s new industries, and will be -more profitable as time goes on. - -There are so many things to choose from, we are not able as yet to -decide what we shall do. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration: Palace of Machinery.] - - - - -THE PALACE OF MACHINERY - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -The Palace of Machinery is just across the Avenue of Progress from the -Palace of Mines, and is an imposing building of great beauty, as befits -a god of so much power and importance. It covers nine acres of ground, -and seems to suggest strength. Father tells us that it is the largest -wooden structure in the world. He says that six million feet of lumber -were required for sheathing it and four carloads of nails and fifteen -hundred tons of bolts and washers were used in building it. - -We found many things of interest--machines for drilling oil wells, and -machines for refining the oil, machines for crushing great rocks, and -machines for making roads. There were canning machines, gas engines, -giant printing-presses, bookbinding machinery and all sorts of -electrical devices. Father says that every machinery appliance that has -been invented is shown here in completest detail. - -There was a knife in one exhibit which opened and shut all by itself; it -was a giant knife, and we said to each other that perhaps a gnome was -making it open and shut. A little boy who was near said, “Aw! Sillies! -It goes by machinery!” So then, of course, we knew! - -There were some moving-picture machines in the palace, but we did not -see them work, and we are going back there some day. In all the palaces -they have wonderful “movies,” and sometimes we go to them while father -looks at things. - -We find that it is better not to get too tired, so we went and sat in -the Avenue of Progress and listened to a band which was playing, until -father came out, and then we came home. It was a heavy day, seeing so -much massive machinery, and we were a little tired, but very glad that -we had seen it all. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -THE PALACE OF MINES - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -The Palace of Mines is a most interesting Palace, built in the Spanish -style, with some very fine doorways or portals. - -Inside we found so many things of interest that we were quite surprised, -as we had not expected to be so very much interested in mines. Father -says that we came to this Fair to learn about the things in it, and -mines are very important. We began to think he was right, when we saw -the two big balls of gold which show where the most gold comes from, and -how much is mined every year. - -Gold mines are not the only kind that are valuable. So many things come -from mines which we had never even wondered about before, that we wonder -now at our former ignorance. Jewels of every kind come from the -ground--lovely opals and diamonds, and our birthstone--the purple -amethyst--and rubies, and everything but pearls. It is wonderful to -think of, isn’t it? We were invited to go down in a coal mine, not a -real one, of course, but one which shows just how it looks. It was a bit -scary down there; and always after this when we are sitting before a -glowing coal fire, and perhaps popping corn over it, we shall remember -that some one went down in a dark coal mine and dug it out for us. -Father says that the Fair teaches us great lessons, and the best among -them is to be kinder to each other. - -When we came up from the coal mine we were taken into a dark room, like -the ones which photographers have, and shown some radium. You have to -use a sort of telescope glass, and shut one eye, and look through the -lens, and there it is hopping about in the box just as though it did not -enjoy a bit being shut up in there. Being so little of it in the world -it is tremendously expensive. - -We were glad to see that there are all sorts of ways to keep the men who -work in mines well and happy now, at least compared to what there used -to be, and the motto “Safety First” is all over everywhere. - -The machinery for working the mines was interesting to father, but it -was a little too heavy for us, so just to help us to remember that we -had seen the Palace of Mines we went to a coal-mining “movie.” After -that we went and sat in the North Gardens and watched the ships go by -until father came for us. The bay is very beautiful, and we just adore -the sea-gulls. They were having a lawn party that day. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -[Illustration: THE PALACE OF TRANSPORTATION.] - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -There are so many fascinating ways to travel now that we wonder why -anyone stays at home. - -Father observed today that if we were to travel in other countries for -the same length of time that this Fair is to be kept open, that we could -not possibly learn so much about the manners and customs of the people -as we can by seeing the Fair. He says it is a privilege to have seen it, -because before we are grown up there will not be another, and children -remember such things so much more vividly than grown-up people do. - -Today we went to the Palace of Transportation. Even Alaska is there with -some fine canoes and paddles, and models of steamships. - -The Philippine Islands, Uncle Sam’s little brown children of the seas, -have sent an interesting means of transportation, in the shape of a -water caribou and cart. The ox has immense horns which spread out on -each side of his head, and measure about five feet in length. They must -be heavy to carry. - -Contrasting with that are the great engines of our own railroads, -turning majestically on the turn-tables, which illustrate how men can -handle such monsters. - -There are aeroplanes and automobiles of the very latest models. Here -again we were reminded that the ideas shown are all new ones, and we -should think that Madame World would consider that her families are very -bright children. - -We went up on the deck of a big liner, and were quite fascinated with -the dear little rooms, with the twin beds, and pink and blue cretonne -furnishings. - -We wrote a letter to mother on one of the dear little desks in the room -we are going abroad in some day. - -Some English cars are shown, and we did not think we should care for -them, as one has to be really shut up in the compartment until it gets -to the next station; and if you do not happen to own it all, some one -whom you do not care about may be in there, and it seemed to us that it -would be unpleasant. - -We do not wish to appear unduly patriotic, but we have seen nothing as -yet which convinces us that there is any place better than our own land. - -But father says that every one feels that way, and of course it is very -proper. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -THE PALACE OF MANUFACTURES - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -We went across the Court of Flowers, stopping to admire the darling -pansies, to the Palace of Manufactures. - -This, again, is in Spanish Renaissance style, and has a figure of -Victory on the gables, another reminder that we have been victorious -with the Canal. - -One of the interesting things we saw here was rope-making. A large -Colonial mansion has been made of rope, the big cable kind, with pillars -and all. It was clean-looking and very ingenious. The rope is made from -the wild banana plant which grows in the Philippine Islands and does not -look as though it were good for anything. They also make rope of a plant -called “sisal,” which is a cactus plant, and grows wild in Mexico. - -At this place a variety of small tools had been made into a wonderful -waterfall, something like Niagara, only not so large, and a ship was -running on the river above the falls which did not look very safe to us; -it might be drawn over, we thought, but nothing happened. A very -life-like snake made of steel ran across the bank every few moments. The -boys seemed to enjoy it very much. - -There was also a fountain made of wire, playing in the yard, and it -looked very much like water if you wanted to help out by some pretend. - -A little Japanese girl in this palace is making hats all the time, but -she does not get tired because she is just a little statue, or figure, -in a glass case, but she shows how the work is done as well as though -she were alive, but you miss her smile. - -Broom-making is also interesting, and we watched it until we could -almost make a broom. First the man takes a handful of broom straw, and -puts it in a machine, which does something to it, and gives it back. -Then he passes it on to another man, and he puts it in another machine, -and before you know it there is a regular broom, like your mother sends -you to the grocery for. - -I have always thought it would be better to take the seeds out of the -broom and plant them and raise one’s own brooms, but I know better now. -The straw is put in hot water first, and so, of course, the seeds would -not grow. Besides, one would have to buy a machine. - -A wonderful machine from Switzerland was making hand-made embroidery, or -some that looked just as well, and we wished that you might see it. - -It appealed to us, because to stay in the house and embroider has never -seemed to us to be worth while, although we do like pretty things. Men -do the work with this machine, and they have a pattern of the flower -they are putting on the work pinned on the wall in front of them. I am -quite sure brother would let us go without embroidery before he would -stay in and do it. - -We wouldn’t mind a bit cutting and making doll clothes from the darling -paper patterns that we saw, if they would lend us a sewing-machine. - -But we didn’t ask to do it. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -OUR HOSTESS - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -Of course not every one could come to this party, no matter how much -they might wish to, so there are several States which have no mansion at -the Fair. - -California had thought about that, and so built a much larger house than -she would have needed for her own people, that those having no State -house might feel perfectly at home. - -She is always a most delightful hostess, and makes one visiting her feel -so welcome and comfortable that the visit is never forgotten. Her -beautiful mansion is made after the old Mission style, with a bell -tower, and bells, and lots and lots of room in it--parlors, cafes and -rest rooms, and a lovely ballroom where the grown-ups may amuse -themselves. - -We go over to California’s house when we are tired, because our State is -one of those which has no house, and one day while father was visiting -with some friends we went in the secret gardens and waited for him. It -is a lovely place, with old acacia trees in it, and a clipped Monterey -pine hedge around it, and a wishing well in the middle. - -It was so still and sort of whispery in there that we began to feel like -children in a story, so we pretended that we were captive maidens in an -enchanted garden. Whenever we tried to get out, the place where the gate -was a moment before was just solid hedge. We despaired! An enchanted -pigeon flew down from the blue sky! We implored her aid! So she flew -away, and then father came. We know now that we shall be famous -story-writers. - -In the counties’ annex, California shows that she is a whole world all -by herself. Each county has sent of her treasures, and the fruits are as -golden as the real gold which is found here. - -If there were nothing else to be seen at the Fair, it would still be -worth while to have come to see California, whose blue skies and golden -fields are always smiling. No one has ever seen a frown on California’s -face,--not all over at one time. We love you, California! - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration: Colonnade of The Palace of Fine Arts reflected in the -Lagoon.] - - - - -THE PALACE OF FINE ARTS - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -We fear that we are not old enough to write to anyone about the Palace -of Fine Arts, it is so wonderful, especially when it is reflected in the -little lake where the swans live. - -We got our first glimpse of it in the lake, and we almost thought we -must have gone to Greece, and had not heard about it yet, because it -looked like something out of our Greek book. - -We walked around among the lovely trees, and went in and stood in the -colonnade. It was so still and hushed, and different from the rest of -the palaces, that it made us feel peaceful and holy, like going to -early-morning service on Easter Day. - -The galleries were a bit bewildering to us, there were so many pictures, -but we wandered around by ourselves, and found some fascinating screens -of lovely Chinese cats, and roosters, which we understood. There were -more of our Swedish snow pictures, and away down in a little room at the -end we found some miniatures which we loved. It made us feel quite -acquainted and welcome to find a miniature called “A Mountain Lassie” -which was painted by Bertha Corbett Melcher, our own dear Sunbonnet -Babies lady. - -We wandered out in the grounds to wait for father, and there among the -shrubbery we found the darlingest little Pan, with his pipes. We stayed -with him a long time. Janet Scudder sculped him. Then we came to the -very prettiest thing we have found at the Fair--a dear little child -figure, standing on tiptoe, with her hands outstretched to us, and her -baby face full of joy, as though she had just seen the world for the -first time and loved it. She is called “Wild Flower” and was made by -Edward Berge. The dear little thing reminded us of spring rain, and -morning sunshine, and nooks in the woods where the first violets grow. - -There is another figure by Mr. Berge, called “Boy and Frog,” and many -other dear little baby figures which we did not have time to learn -about, because it was time to go home. - -Father was pleased that we had found something to interest us. We -intend to study the Expression of Art, because we feel so much better in -our hearts when we find some beautiful thing which we can understand. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration: Western Façade, Palace of Education, Looking across Fine -Arts Lagoon.] - - - - -THE PALACE OF EDUCATION - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -The Palace of Education has a most beautiful entrance, which is as it -should be, because education is the most necessary thing in the world. -Father says that we do not at all realize our blessings because things -are made so easy for us. He says that he and Mr. Abraham Lincoln did not -have things so easy. - -But it could not have been so bad, because see what splendid men they -both grew up! We found so many things of interest that we could not -begin to tell you about them. But the thing which most interested us was -the vocational schools which Massachusetts was showing. - -Their motto, “Earning while learning,” does seem so sensible. They -explain that there will always be some children who will have to help -support themselves, and so Massachusetts, like Sentimental Tommy, has -found a way. - -The children go to school one week, and work in a factory the next week, -turn and turn about. Massachusetts has a large number of factories and -so can make an arrangement of this sort, but she believes that other -communities have some industries which could furnish work for children. - -Another school idea appealed to us more: We do not like to think of -other little children having to work when we have so many good times, -and we hope that there will be found a way, very soon, so that they need -not do it. - -But the idea is this, and it also belongs to Massachusetts: They build a -schoolhouse in the center of say twenty-five miles of country. They put -teachers there, but no pupils. The whole radius of twenty-five miles is -the school. If a boy over fourteen, who has attended regular school up -to that time, wishes to start a business, so that he can both earn and -learn, whether it is chicken-raising, carpentering, fruit-growing, -dairying, anything which he can do in the country, he becomes a pupil in -the school, and is entitled to one visit a week from a teacher, who will -not only show him how to do the work, but will instruct him how to -market his wares. He is expected to keep along in regular school work as -well, so that when he is twenty-one he will have a business, and some -money in the bank. Father said that was real common sense applied. There -are also schools in home-making, where any girl from seven to seventy -years of age can learn all about housekeeping, and taking care of -children. We saw some lovely leather bags made by the high school pupils -of Minneapolis, which father said were worthy of skilled workmen. - -We have not yet decided upon a life work, but we are going to learn to -make gingerbread and jam, currant jam. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -WHAT WE SAW AT THE PALACE OF FOOD PRODUCTS - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -Fronting on the Esplanade we found the Food Products Palace. Madame -World considers that it is most important that the Spirit of Plenty, who -rules food production, should have a palace worthy of her august -Highness. - -They were cooking so many things, and showing such quantities of food -that it was most surprising. We were offered almost everything to eat -that we had ever heard of, and some that we did not know existed. We -were willing to sample them all, but father said that he did not believe -we had better try to eat in so many languages. So we just had an oatmeal -scone, and some puffed rice, and some Chinese cookies, a cup of -chocolate, and a bit of biscuit, and a few other little things, but the -others all looked good. - -A lady has the most fascinating display of flowers made out of butter, -red roses, and yellow roses, and water-lilies, and tulips, all growing -on a lattice work inside her refrigerator. The colored flowers may be -eaten because it is all colored with pure food colors. You could not -tell that the flowers were not real, they look as though they grew -there. She must have a lovely soul. - -We wandered around to see the Aquarium. The fishes are lovely; we wish -they did not have to be called Food Products. The Shovel-nosed Sturgeon -is very probably a cousin to old Mr. Alligator, because he looks like -him. He has the same bony humps on his back, and his head is shaped -almost the same. - -The Gar Pike looks like a submarine, and holds his body very rigidly, -swimming only with his fins. He is grey and looks very cool and calm. - -In one pool with some big blue Catfishes were some Salamanders, with -funny furry tufts on their heads. They were lazy and would not get up. -They resemble lizards. There was a whole tank of lovely Golden Perch -from Catalina. They have faces with real foreheads, and a very bored and -haughty expression. There were also some lovely Rainbow Trout from -Canada’s mountain streams. - -We were much interested in the fish-hatching processes. The eggs are -kept under running water on a sort of griddle or coarse net, and when -one little wiggly fellow comes out he uncoils and is long instead of -round as he was in the egg, and so he drops down into the bottom of the -tank, and begins to be a fish. He carries the rest of the egg around -with him for a few days so that he need not be hungry until he has -absorbed the nutrition it gives him. - -Fishes do not care much about their relations except for dinner, as they -are real cannibals. I suppose they do not know any better, but it seems -unfortunate. I fear we neglected the rest of the palace. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -[Illustration: THE PALACE OF AGRICULTURE] - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -We went around through the Court of the Universe, and across the Aisle -of the Setting Sun to the Palace of Agriculture, which is very beautiful -indeed. - -We suppose that Madame World wished to do all the honor possible to the -Goddess of Agriculture, as she is a most useful goddess, and the world -could not do without her, because she has to furnish food for all the -earth. - -We get used to taking things very much for granted, and do not seem to -be interested in where things come from, and so that is why such a Fair -as this is useful. It lets us know to whom we are indebted for the -things we eat. Iowa had a real mountain of corn, lovely golden corn, and -Vermont had real maple sugar to eat on the Johnnie cake the corn would -make. - -North Carolina and South Carolina send us rice, and Cuba sends us -coffee, and South America sends fruits and also coffee, China sends tea -and preserved ginger and funny nuts, and California and Florida give us -oranges and grapefruit and strawberries, and almost everything good to -eat, and the Philippines send us cocoanuts and Hawaii sends pineapples. -Did you know that peanuts grow on a vine in the ground, and that bananas -do not grow on a tree but on a tall ferny-looking thing which is not a -tree, and pineapples grow on short plants which are set out every year? -It takes a long time for the pineapple to perfect itself, but we did not -learn just how long. - -A gentleman from Cuba showed us a collection of fruit which is grown in -that island, including the avocado, or alligator pear. It is a very -wonderful fruit, and there is a tree in Southern California which is -insured for thirty thousand dollars. - -But the big red apples from Oregon were of more interest to us, because -we know that we like those, and do not have to take any risks. And the -lovely juicy golden oranges of California are good enough for us. But we -liked to see all the things that have grown from the ground, because we -can never quite understand the marvel of it--how a little seed knows -quite well what it is going to be when it comes up. We know, because we -planted some lettuce one year and it came up turnips. It said lettuce -on the paper, but the seeds knew all the time that they were no such -thing. - -We could not be deceived like that again, because we know the difference -now between lettuce and turnip seed. - -We asked father if he did not think that Madame World should be very -proud of her children, and he said yes, he did think so, and also that -it was a great privilege to belong to her. - -Father says such wise things! - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -THE PALACE OF LIBERAL ARTS - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -As we went in the door of the Liberal Arts father called our attention -to the doorway, and also to the panel, representing the making of things -which we use, and the figure of the lady with the spindle, and the man -with the hammer. - -These were made by Mr. Mahonri Young of Salt Lake City, Utah, and are -meant to show that work is honorable and desirable. - -All the ideas shown in this building are not more than ten years old, or -if older they have been greatly improved in that time. - -The telephone, for instance, has been so much improved that it is very -much more practical. We were allowed to hear a telephone message from -New York the other day, and shown movies of how they put the poles and -wires over the mountains. It was like magic. Now comes along a machine, -which we were shown in the Palace of Liberal Arts, which really is a -wizardry sort of thing, as it takes your message if you telephone when -your friend is out, and repeats it to him in your own voice when he -returns. We know because we tried it. The man asked us to speak into the -telephone, and then let us hold the machine to our ears and it spoke -right back to us. We have always thought such a machine would be a help, -especially if we wanted to stay at grandmother’s for supper, and could -not get mother on the ’phone. - -Bookbinding appeals to us very much indeed, because it is so smooth and -shows that one has taken pains with the work, and perhaps we shall -become bookbinders. A lady had some beautiful leather bindings there, -and she was most kind about explaining. - -We thought we would like one of the dear little cameras that go in a -hand-bag, and take little bits of pictures which afterward grow into big -ones, but father said we must wait for that. So we went to see the -apparatus for taking the “movies,” and also looked at the lovely -autochromes. It is too bad that they will not reprint in color, but -before the next ten years of course they will. - -We wonder if you have seen the new lawn sprinkler which jumps around -from one place to another on the lawn. When we went home today we saw it -at work out in the lawns, and we could scarcely believe our eyes. It -sprinkled one place until it thought, apparently, that it was wet -enough, and then it bobbed out of sight and came up about ten feet away, -working like mad. Really if you did not know about it, it would make you -think you were asleep and dreaming a fairy story. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration: Palace of Horticulture, looking across the Great South -Gardens.] - - - - -THE PALACE OF HORTICULTURE - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -Horticulture, as you know, is the art of making things grow, like grass -and flowers and blooming trees and shrubs, which add so much to the -beauty of the world. - -The Goddess of Horticulture, whose name is Flora, should be very happy -in the palace which Madame World has provided for her at the Fair, -because it is extremely beautiful. - -Madame values the goddess Flora very highly, and loves her dearly, -because she knows what a very different place this world would be -without her. - -Her palace at the Fair has a wonderful dome, where the sun shines in all -day, and several smaller domes, so that the palace is always light and -cheerful. - -A perfect thicket of trees and shrubs and flowers surround it, seeming -to peep in at their less hardy sisters who live inside the palace. - -The wonder worker among flowers and fruits and vegetables, Mr. Luther -Burbank, has his headquarters at the Fair, and will be happy to tell any -one just how to create new flowers and fruits, and give advice on -gardening. - -We wanted to ask him why he wanted a red poppy instead of a golden one, -but we did not. We love the poppies golden just as they are, and we did -not a single bit like the nasturtium-colored ones we saw there. But of -course we are only children, and he is very wise. - -The people from the Netherlands have a great garden of bulb plants in -the grounds, and the Japanese people have cherry, plum, and other -ornamental trees, as well as rare flowers. - -A gardener told father that the great eucalyptus trees and the -cypresses--many of them sixty feet tall--had been brought down from a -park and put there around the walls of the palace. We wondered how they -liked being transplanted. - -But they were playing quite happily with the little winds from the ocean -and seemed quite contented. The gardener told us that they were going -back home after the Fair is over, so perhaps they had heard. - -We are planning a garden for next year. We shall have heaps of poppies. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -OUR FIRST LESSON IN SCULPTURE - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -When we had looked, and looked, and looked at the Tower, and had almost -counted every jewel on it, we were so delighted with it, father called -our attention to the Fountain of Energy, made by Mr. A. Stirling Calder, -and told us about its meaning, or symbolism. - -The sculptor means to convey the idea that the Canal has been finished -because of the pluck and energy and courage of our nation, and that now -we are going on to better things. - -The queer sea creatures at the base of the fountain are supposed to be -carrying on their backs the four oceans, the North and South Arctic, and -the Atlantic and Pacific. - -The figure of the man on the horse certainly looks very animated, and we -supposed that the figures standing on his shoulders are heralds who are -to clear the way for him. - -Near Horticultural Hall in the South Gardens, at the left of the -Fountain of Energy, is a Mermaid Fountain by Mr. Arthur Putnam, which is -repeated at the right in front of Festival Hall. That gives you a -picture of the tower and what we saw from the main gate as we went in. - -Father said that as we had made so good a start, it would be wise to -keep on with sculpture for the rest of the day. He pointed out to us the -figure of Victory, which has been placed on each one of the palaces, and -then took us to the Court of Palms to see Mr. James Earle Fraser’s “The -End of the Trail.” We felt just how tired both man and horse were, and -felt sorry for them both. We asked father why they had come so far to -get themselves exhausted like that, and he again told us something of -symbolism. - -The statue is intended to represent the redman, and denotes that the -race is vanishing, and is supposed to be studied in connection with the -“Pioneer,” Mr. Solon Borglum’s very fine statue in the Court of Flowers. -That is meant to say that the white race will take up the work of -progress and carry it on. We completed the lesson by going to see the -Column of Progress at the end of the Court of the Universe. The -bas-relief, that means the flat figures on the surface, by Mr. Isadore -Konti, show men have striven for the best in life. The group at the top -of the column, by Mr. Hermon A. McNeil, is a great work, father says, -and is meant to express the idea of effort. - -The artist has also expressed the thought that no man can accomplish -anything alone, but must have the love and support of his fellow beings. -We think that is a beautiful thought. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -THE COURT OF THE UNIVERSE - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -While we were in the Court of the Universe, father thought we had better -have another lesson on sculpture. - -He considers that the fountains of The Rising Sun and Descending Night -are the very finest things at the Fair, and he has traveled abroad and -is a good judge. They are the work of Adolph A. Weinman. Father wants us -to put in the names of sculptors and artists not because he expects us -to remember them just now, but because big brother will want to know. - -The very big groups on the triumphal arches attracted our attention, and -we asked about them and what they were supposed to mean. Everything -about the Fair has some meaning, but we do not expect to get it all. The -group with the elephant and the Oriental gentlemen represents Eastern -civilization on the way to meet Western civilization, which is -represented by the group on the other arch--that with the prairie -schooner drawn by oxen, and the figure of the Alaskan woman. - -The Spirit of the East marching to meet The Spirit of the West is meant -to typify the meeting of the world’s families now that the Canal has -been completed. - -The groups are the work of A. Stirling Calder, Leo Lentelli, and -Frederick G. R. Roth. - -Father liked very much the “Hopes of the Future” and “The Mother of -Tomorrow,” two of Mr. Calder’s best things, in the group. - -We liked, especially after the lights were on, the figures representing -stars, of which so many are used in the avenue leading north. - -Mr. Robert I. Aitken has four good figures in this court, and in the -evening when the lights were on and the vapor was rising from the urns -it looked like a story out of the Arabian Nights. - -The flowers are lovely, and you never for a moment feel away from home, -because all the courts are so homey-feeling, just like one’s own garden. - -Father said after awhile that he thought it would be well for us to see -something that we could really understand, and so he took us over to see -Edith Woodman Burroughs’ dear little figure of “Youth” which she has -made for a fountain. We just loved it, it looks so girly, and we were -also much interested in the Fountain of Eldorado by Mrs. Whitney, -because we have read the story about Ponce de Leon. - -It would be nice to be a sculptor if one were a boy, unless one could be -an aviator. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration: Youth.] - - - - -[Illustration: THE COURT OF ABUNDANCE] - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -We are very happy and cheerful children--we have often heard people say -so--but behind our smiling faces lies the deep and consuming sorrow that -we have not a brother of our own age. - -We can never understand why kind Providence did not create us triplets -instead of twins and make one-third of us boy! It would have made no -difference to kind Providence, and would have been much better for us. - -We have never needed a brother as much as we do in seeing this Fair, -though of course we say nothing to father about it as we realize that he -is doing his best for us, but he so often has to leave us while he -attends to some business or other, and then it is we feel the need of a -brother of our own age. An older one would be of no use, as our -fifteen-year-old one is not any good to us. He says he has interests of -his own. - -We were waiting in the Court of Abundance today for father, and were -having a lovely time pretending that the lanterns between the arches -were the homes of the light fairies, which would come out after the sun -went away, and waving their golden wands would say, “Let there be -light,” and there would be light, and that the color fairies would come -down from the pictures and dance with the light fairies, and goodness -only knows what we might not have accomplished in the way of a six best -seller when a young sparrow fell out of his nest. He was disturbed about -it, very naturally, but we were so sorry for him that we could not go on -with our pretend. If we had had a brother of course he could have -climbed up and put the poor little thing back, but a guard came and got -him, and while of course we shall never know what happened, we have our -fears. - -Father came just then and we asked him if he wanted to give us a lesson, -and he remarked that he feared the Court of Abundance was almost too big -for a couple of ten-year-old tots to get much out of except perhaps -fresh air and incipient inspiration. That cannot be as serious as it -sounds, because we are sure father would not expose us to anything, but -we shall look up “incipient” as soon as we get home. - -We stayed down and saw the lights this evening and when the vapor is -rising from the urns and the serpents are writhing, or at least seeming -to, and all the lanterns are lighted, it looks like something out of our -Arabian Nights’ book. - -We shall try to finish our little play sometime, when the sparrows have -taught their young ones to fly properly. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration: Night Illumination--Niche in the Court of the Four -Seasons.] - - - - -THE COURT OF THE FOUR SEASONS--THE COURT OF FLOWERS - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -We love the Court of the Four Seasons, by Mr. Henry Bacon. It is so -homey and lovely in there that we feel that we could be perfectly happy -all day and every day in there. We like to hear the birds talking about -their nests, and how many eggs there are now, and when the young ones -are going to have their first flying lesson. We love also Ceres, the -Goddess of Agriculture, who is standing on a pedestal on top of the -lovely fountain. Mrs. Evelyn Longman is the lady who made it. The young -ladies who dance around the base of the pedestal are so happy that you -almost expect them to join hands and jump down and dance on the grass. -Mr. Albert Jaegers’ Feast of the Sacrifice is in this court also, but we -did not care so much about the symbolism of that. The artist has made -it seem so real that we are sorry for the poor animal, which we are sure -does not wish to be sacrificed. - -But when we are in this lovely court it is impossible not to be happy, -so we enjoy the flowers, and the statuary without thinking too much of -what the symbolism is. Father says that we can think of that later, when -we are older. - -The Fountain of the Earth is in this court, and we like to watch the -play of the water over the dome of the fountain. - -In front of the Court of Flowers stands “The American Pioneer,” by Mr. -Solon Borglum, which we like very much, because it looks like something -out of our story books, which is not a very good reason, father says, -because it is meant to show that these fine old men and women came first -and made a way for us, and if they had not, we should have no beautiful -Fair today. - -This court is supposed to be the Court of Oriental Fairy Tales, but so -far we have not met any one whom we know especially, except “Beauty and -the Beast,” by Edgar Walters, and they do not seem quite in the right -place. - -Mr. Calder’s Flower Girls, with their garlands, make the place seem very -gay and happy, but the real flowers were what we liked best, and we -could sit for hours and hours in this beautiful spot, watching the big -butterflies flitting over the pansy beds, and the bronze, ruby-throated -humming-birds flashing like jewels escaped from the Tower. - -This Fair makes us wonder why people do not make gardens prettier, and -not live in houses as much as they now do. - -We suppose it is because they cannot all live in California, where -out-of-doors is nearly always nice. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -MURAL PAINTINGS - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -Father said today that he was afraid we had not learned much about the -murals, and we said that we would like to study them more, but they were -so high up that we got a dreadfully achy neck every time we tried to do -much with them. - -He laughed a little at that, but said that it was an affliction which -had to be borne, as he was anxious that we should study them. He wishes -us to be able to read pictures as well as we do print, or music, because -they always have some story to tell which helps in life. - -We are glad now that he insisted, because otherwise we should have -missed seeing Mr. Robert Reid’s pictures in the dome of the Palace of -Fine Arts. - -We liked very much the panels which symbolize the four golds of -California, the poppies, the oranges, the gold, and the wheat. We have -secured some photographs of all the murals in the Exposition, and shall -study them when we are at home, and we shall send you some pictures with -these letters. - -We are of course not quite sure why we like some things better than -others, but we do like very much the picture entitled “Victorious -Spirit” in the Court of the Palms. - -It has the most beautiful blue in it, and we love blue, though of course -we know that that is not an adequate reason for liking a picture. There -is something fine about being a Victorious Spirit, which we admire, -especially if it is a good spirit, and this one seems to be. - -In the Court of Abundance we saw Mr. Frank Brangwyn’s “Earth,” “Air,” -“Water,” and “Fire.” The “Earth” picture shows in a harvesting scene all -the things which the earth has given to us. In “Fire” we are shown how -fire was first found, and how much more comfortable people were after -that. - -Next, men were learning how to use the fire, and when they had -discovered that cooked food was better than the old way, they needed -pots to cook their food in, and so had to make the pots. - -In the “Water” picture, you will notice that the people are using the -pots now for carrying the water to their homes, and the clouds show you -by their heavy grayness that it will soon rain. - -The “Air” picture shows that the storm has come, and the children are -hurrying home to shelter. We did enjoy these pictures so much, and we -wish that all pictures were as easy to read and as interesting as these. -It is a bit hard to understand that there has ever been a time when -people did not have fire and such things, but father says we should not -say such things when we are in the Fifth Grade. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -WHAT WE DID IN ITALY - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -Father said today that it was time to improve our minds by some foreign -travel. So we stepped into our imaginary aeroplane and flew right over. - -Italy’s palace is very stately with great high ceilings and elaborate -entrances. It represents both Mediaeval and Renaissance styles of -architecture. - -A very nice Italian gentleman showed us over the palace and explained -the things to us as well as he could without knowing our language, and -of course we knew nothing of his. We shall study languages, and we like -Italian. It sounds so polite! - -If Christopher Columbus could come to the Fair, he would find himself on -a pedestal in the throne room, along with his king and queen. Dante also -is there, and stern-looking Garibaldi, and Alexander Volte, who -discovered how to apply electric energy, and many other famous Italian -persons. - -In another part of the palace wonderful laces were displayed, and some -carved corals which we know would have pleased mama. - -In one case were some old velvet cloaks, which we have seen worn by -pirates and buccaneers in our story books--those who wear big droopy -hats with big plumes on them,--you remember? - -There are copies of famous painters, among them several by Titian, who -always painted red-haired people, and isn’t it funny how one thing you -hear fits in with something you have heard! We know now why big sister -is called Titian-haired. - -Michael Angelo’s “Virgin” we shall always remember, the face was so pale -and pure looking, and so young, though she has been made so long. There -were some carved alabaster vases, real ones, though almost everything is -copied, and some modern paintings which my nice gentleman did not care -about. He liked the old masters, he said. There were some musical -instruments which had been dug up from Pompeii, just green with age. -Nobody knows what their names are. - -Some copies of Lucca della Robbia were very beautiful, especially an -altar piece of Virgin and Child. - -The furniture is beautiful, and is all in keeping with the big rooms -and high ceilings. They use fireplaces mostly in Italy, but have modern -heating now. Our nice gentleman said that Italy is a good deal like -California, “only little bit nicer.” - -We enjoyed our Italian trip, and shall always remember it. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -OUR VISIT IN TEHUAN-TEPEC - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -Mexico, who is our near neighbor--she lives just across the Rio Grande -River from us,--has always before this time sent a good representation -to Madame World’s fairs. - -But this year she could not arrange to leave home, and some of her -children were much disappointed, just as one would naturally expect, -when they had their minds all made up to come. We can quite understand -it. - -So one little village said, “Oh, Mother Mexico, please let us go to our -Cousin America’s party?” - -Mothers always enjoy making their children happy, we are glad to have -observed, so Senora Mexico told the little village if it would be good -and keep its face and hands clean, and not ask for more than one helping -of cake and ice-cream that it might go to the party. So it came, and one -evening we went up to call. It lives on a very noisy street called “The -Zone,” but after we were inside the gates we did not even hear the -noise. - -It is quite the quaintest little village we have ever been in. They have -a dear little theatre, not a movie, but a real play theatre, which -pleased us because we like regular plays much better than pictures. It -seems more like really doing things, and we miss the voices so much in a -movie. - -They gave a play for us, in their own language, and it was very funny. -We did not, of course, understand the words, but they laughed so much at -it that we knew. - -After the play we went to supper, which was cooked on a ’dobe stove, and -served in a real kitchen in a real hacienda. - -There is a real river of real water running through the village, and on -it is a tiny barge full of green vegetables, showing how the gardener -takes his produce to market. There were two big catfish in the river. We -stood on the puente, which is Mexican for “bridge,” and watched the good -ship Anita as it steamed into the harbor. We feared the catfish would -capsize it. - -Some of the people of the village have brought along their work, and we -were much interested in the basket-making, and the weaving of the -brilliant colored serapes, which the people wear instead of coats. - -A Mexican grandmother gave us each a dear little vase of red pottery, -and a feather picture of a blue jay. We hoped the picture was not made -of a real blue jay’s feathers, because we are fond of him. - -We found the village interesting. They bade us adios, and asked us to -come again. Thank you, Mexico, we shall. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -[Illustration: OUR VISIT TO JAPAN.] - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -We do not know where we have been more beautifully entertained than we -were in Japan. A lovely little Japanese maiden with an embroidered robe -told us a good many interesting things. One of them was about “Boy Day.” - -It seems that in Japan all the boys have one birthday, that is, May -fifth is set aside for a universal boys’ birthday. They have then a -celebration, all over the nation, and it is what with us would be a bank -holiday like Thanksgiving, or Decoration Day. - -The carp is chosen for the emblem, because he is the Samurai, or warrior -fish, because he is so full of courage, and figures of him are made of -crepe and floated from bamboo poles, along with their flag. - -On that day the boys are instructed in the standards of manhood as they -are expected to live, and shown their ancestors’ great deeds as recorded -in the family records. - -We think we should not exactly care about a wholesale birthday, but the -maiden said that the girls also have one, which is March third. A doll -made like the small girl child is presented to her, and she is supposed -to keep it until she grows up, so that her children may have it. -Japanese people care a very great deal about their ancestors, and we -suppose they feel about them as we do about our great-grandfathers who -fought with George Washington. - -We had Ceremonial Tea, in a lovely tea-garden, which was very beautiful, -but of course we are not allowed to drink tea, but the cakes were -interesting, and father said that budding authoresses should always -absorb local color. - -We think that we did that because we studied the flowers and shrubs very -intently, and while father talked with the artist who was making lovely -postal cards by painting scenes from the gardens we went out and traced -to its source the laughing brook which was rushing through the grounds. -It did not spoil it a bit for us to discover that the brook came from a -water pipe sunk in the ground, because we understand of course that the -gardens did not grow there of their own accord. - -The Japanese people love beauty and always - -[Illustration: A lovely little Japanese maiden with an embroidered robe -told us a good many interesting things.] - -create it wherever they may be living, and their gardens at the Fair are -very wonderful. They have a dwarf evergreen tree which is said to be -over one thousand years old. It is about as large as our Christmas tree -is when we have a large one for both families. - -In Japan, the silk culture occupies an important place. We saw some -exhibits of it, and it seems to us that if we did not care so much about -our native land that we might like to go and raise silkworms in Japan. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration: Section Court of the Ages, showing Tower of Jewels and -Arch of the Rising Sun in distance. The Fountain of Earth in the -foreground.] - - - - -CANADA THE BEAUTIFUL - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -Canada, who is our very nearest neighbor on the North, has built a -mansion at the Fair, which seems to us the very most beautiful of all. - -The pictures shown give one a perfectly correct idea of the country, and -what it produces, and can produce in the future. - -As we entered we were asked by a polite attendant to “keep to the left, -please,” which rather surprised us until we remembered that in England -and all colonies belonging to her all traffic passes from left to right, -and not the opposite, as with us. - -The pictures of the forests and the birds and animals which live in them -kept us a long while, and we were never tired of looking at them. We -were glad that father brought us, because we could look as long as we -liked, instead of hurrying through as so many children are obliged to -do. - -The pictures are made by placing real animals or other objects in the -foreground, and painting a back drop continuation of the scene, in the -manner of a stage drop in a theatre. - -One beautiful scene represents a farmhouse with cattle grazing in the -distance, and green gardens and fruit trees around the house. It is -meant to show what a farmer can do in five years of work on a new piece -of ground. - -Another picture shows the rolling prairies with fields of ripe, yellow -wheat, with snow-capped mountains in the far distance, and still another -takes one to the extreme north of Canada, and shows how the Aurora -Borealis lights up the world during the time of the midnight sun. - -There is also a wonderful apple-harvesting scene, where real apples are -used in the foreground, and in the background men on ladders are -gathering the apples from the trees. - -Canada has also immense mines of iron, coal, gold and silver, as well as -great quarries of marble, asbestos and copper, and many other minerals. - -The decorations in the main building are made from seeds, and you would -be surprised, we are sure, to see the pictures which can be produced -with the natural seeds and grasses. - -We liked Canada very much and brought away some new ideas. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -OUR CHINESE VISIT - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -We went one day to the Chinese pavilions, and wandered around there to -our hearts’ content. It was so fascinating that we could hardly come -away. The embroideries are wonderful, especially the scenes and birds, -and we had no ambition to try to do them. The carved teakwood furniture -is lovely, especially that combined with porcelain. Unless one could -travel to China they could never see such treasures as are here -displayed. - -A very polite little Chinese gentleman noticed that we were interested -in an old coin collection, and explained to us that “these ancient cash -were unearthed by a farmer while plowing near Canton.” The coins bear -dates all the way from 618 B. C. to 1265 A. D. We decided that we would -keep our “cash” in a different sort of bank. - -The polite gentleman told us something about the dwarf trees which are -used for decorative purposes, and showed us an elm tree which was over -a hundred years old, and is only three feet in height, and is growing, -or, as we said we thought, just living, in a flower-pot. The Chinese -dragon on the flower-pot would have scared us so that we never could -grow any more if we had to live with it, and perhaps that is what -happened to the tree. - -The gentleman was feeling very sad over the loss of some similar trees -which had been ruined by the voyage from China, by the carelessness of -some one who took care of them, in watering them with sea water. We took -note of the fact that salt water will kill trees and plants. - -There were some reproductions of ancient temples and shrines, and a -queer picture made of postage stamps of all nations, and we had a lot of -fun finding our own stamps. It has a picture of George Washington, and -as far as we can remember it was the third one from the end, starting at -the right. - -After we had seen all the pictures in the pavilion, and all the other -treasures, we went to the tea-house to have lunch. - -Dear little almond-eyed Chinese girls waited on us, and surprised us by -speaking excellent English. We were a little disappointed that they wore -American-made shoes with their pretty native costumes, but father said, -“Why not? They are going to be American girls now. That is why Madame -World was anxious to have the Canal.” - -We are glad we brought father, he always remembers what we do not want -to forget. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -MORE FOREIGN TRAVEL - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -If there is one place that we do adore it is Hawaii. We have been there -so many times since we came to the Fair, that now when we stop to look -at the gorgeous fishes they seem to show signs of recognition. - -We spent a very pleasant hour in the motion picture theatre in Hawaii, -and got a very good idea of the country. We have resolved that we shall -go there the very first trip we take really abroad. - -The day before our last at the Fair we stopped in Hawaii to get a glass -of pineapple juice, and to listen to the singing. The choir sang -“Aloha,” the Hawaiian song of farewell which ex-Queen Liliuokalani -wrote, and it made us feel a sort of sad happiness. - -So, to get cheered up we went over to Holland, and looked at the -beautiful picture of the land of Queen Wilhelmina, whom every one loves. - -Holland’s mansion is tastefully decorated in blue and brown, and looks -very inviting. Java, one of Holland’s colonies, has some interesting -colored prints called Battik cloth, which are made by covering the -surface of the cotton with clay, or wax, and then cracking the covering -so that the dye stuffs may penetrate to the cloth. - -In Norway there was no one at home except some singers who were giving a -concert, which we enjoyed. Their things had not yet been unpacked. - -Australia was at home and showed us her treasures. We liked her birds -and brilliant butterflies, but father was more interested in her -articles of commerce, such as woods, wools and fruits. - -It is hard to remember that these countries are really so far away from -our own country, it is so easy to get to them in the Fair. - -New Zealand showed us some motion pictures of interesting water sports, -and how they catch the big kingfishes; we saw, also, some mounted -specimens of the kiwi, the wingless bird of New Zealand. It has -absolutely no wings, and is about the size of a guinea hen. - -From there we went over to Siam for a few minutes, to see their lovely -lacquered wood, and other treasures, and then went to Turkey to admire -the rugs and Benares brasses. We are sorry that so many of the -countries which we are anxious to see have not as yet arrived, but we -must hope to come back to the Fair before it closes. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -P. S.--Have you ever noticed how sad it is to do things for the last -time? - - - - -OUR DAY IN SWEDEN - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -We have always wanted to see how skis are really worn, and we were very -glad to go to Sweden and see them. The Swedish mansion is directly -across from the Canadian building, so our foreign travel is being made -very easy for us. - -We went into a blue room, after we had seen all the ships, and steel -things, and the beet sugar cones, which made your mouth water just to -look at them. - -The walls of the blue room are covered with a cloth made from wool, and -colored blue, the very bluest blue you could imagine. Then we saw the -nice deep hand-painted chests which we thought would be perfectly -fascinating to have in our attic, to put all our brocaded satin dresses -in, so that our children could dress up in them as we do in our -grandmother’s things. There are old-fashioned wool rugs made with a hook -which pulls wool through a foundation. We have seen Tillie Nelson’s -mater make them in Minnesota. - -Their furniture is black oak, with wool tapestry for covering, and there -are some beautiful bookcases, and hand-carved book-ends, and some -beautiful book-bindings. - -We looked a long time at the wonderful pictures of snowstorms painted by -A. Schultzberg, 1914. We both like them better than any paintings we -have ever seen. We almost expected to see little Mrs. Cottontail hop out -from under the snow-laden spruce trees, or to hear a chickadee bird sing -his winter song from one of the branches. We have resolved to study art. -A beautiful statue, carved by Alice Nordin, entitled “The Goddess of -Love,” is in that room, and seemed to us very beautiful. - -There were some bronze chandeliers which we know would interest big -brother, they were what he calls decorative, and some china which sister -would rave over. - -We came away feeling that Sweden is a very large and useful nation, and -a homey and comfortable sort of people. We said so to father, but he -said, “Yes, yes, children, I am glad you felt that, because they are -that and more.” - -We knew by his tone that he was thinking, so we were careful not to -chatter and disturb him. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration] - - - - -[Illustration: The Fireworks and Illuminations] - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -Fairy-land was never more beautiful than the Fair is when the lights are -on in the evening, with all the big searchlights and the colored lights -going at once. Then the Tower looks like the queen that it is, with its -thousands of sparkling jewels. There is something majestic and silently -mystical about it, as it stands with its head among the stars. There has -never been anything like it, and there will never be anything like it, -and while, like other great things, it may have faults, it will live -forever in the hearts of the little children who have seen it. - -Once in a while, as a special treat, Madame World has an evening of -fireworks, in addition to the illuminations which she provides for her -guests every evening. We went out late one afternoon, and stayed out for -them. - -Out on the Marina, or water-front, there is a big machine which -controls the searchlights, and from there the whole Fair is illuminated. - -When the lights are turned on, and stream far up in the sky, it looks as -though the Goddess of Light and all her subjects were holding high -carnival in the heavens. Sometimes the lights are all colors of the -rainbow, and when they are turned on Golden Gate it looks as though all -the color sprites from the coral caves were sailing in from tropical -seas to dance at the carnival. - -A most beautiful color effect was arrived at by puffing great white -clouds of steam from engines, and turning on them the colored -searchlights. - -The fireworks were, however, the crowning surprise. First they were the -ordinary Fourth of July kind, just skyrockets, which, bursting with a -loud report, fling stars and bouquets of flowers in the air. - -We liked them very much, as all children like fireworks, and were quite -satisfied that we were having a lovely time, when Boom! a big rocket -exploded, sending balls of fire high up in the air, and do you know, out -flew Old Mother Hubbard and her dog Tray, Mary and her little lamb, -Little Boy Blue and his flock of sheep, the old woman who went up in a -basket, the pig which flew so high, and the cow which jumped over the -moon, not to mention a ballet dancer, and whole flocks of geese, and -strings of flags, all the old story-book folks, not little things which -you would have to guess about, but real large-as-life characters whom -you would at once recognize. Now if some one will explain to us how they -could pack them all into a skyrocket, we shall be satisfied. - -To complete the entertainment, the aviator then went up in his aeroplane -and gave an imitation of a comet tearing through space. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - - - - -THE PANAMA CANAL CONCESSION - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -In spite of the fact that it may be called advertising, which, father -says, we are not being paid to do, we wish very much to tell you about -the Panama Canal representation which we saw at the Fair. - -It is far and away the most educational and interesting thing at the -Fair, and helped us to understand really why Madame World was so anxious -to have the Canal cut, and why there is so much rejoicing over it. - -They have a moving platform with chairs upon which we were seated, and -given a telephone, through which we heard the lecture, and as the -platform moved around the circle, carrying us from the Pacific to the -Atlantic, we were informed as to each step in the great work of making -the Canal, and shown exactly how it is now operated. - -Of course we had to keep constantly in mind that if we were really to -travel over the country which we were being shown that we could by no -means do it in the twenty-three minutes which are used in seeing the -show. But it gives a really correct idea of the country, and the work -which has been and is being done, how the locks are opened and closed, -and how the ships go through the locks, the location of the lighthouses, -and of the various rivers and mountains, also how the cities are placed, -and what cities are now submerged. - -We had always wondered how it was possible for a ship to go higher than -the level of the ocean, and no amount of explanation which father could -give us was able to make it clear to us. But the actual passing through -of the tiny vessel showed us at once. Whenever a vessel has gone through -the Canal the fact is communicated to the world by the wireless which is -stationed at each Canal entrance. - -We are very glad that we saw the real working, splendid Canal spread out -before us, and only wish that you might also have seen it. - -Your loving cousins, -JANE AND ELLEN. - -[Illustration: Western Section of the “Joy Zone.”] - - - - -OUR DAY ON THE ZONE - - -DEAR COUSINS: - -Father said that on our last day at the Fair we might be as frivolous as -we pleased. So we went in at the Van Ness Avenue entrance, and did -everything we wanted to do. Father did not seem a bit bored, though we -had been afraid that he would. - -We went to Toyland, and saw the circus, and the dog show, and the funny -little men and women, who are really grown up although they are scarcely -bigger than little brother, who is only five. There was one little -father and mother there with a baby nearly as big as they were. - -Then we went over to Japan Beautiful, and it is indeed beautiful, and we -stayed a long time, buying gifts for all of you. It looked like -fairyland with all the red lanterns and pretty flags flying. It was -Queen Day. The queen’s chariot was a big bird, like a swan, only more -beautiful. - -Then we zigzagged across again and did things on the other side of the -Zone, like going up in the funny thing which gives you a ride in the -air, so you can see all the Fair at once. Then we stopped a few minutes -in Old Mexico, but we had been there before, you know, so we came out -and went to see the little babies in the incubators. They are very -sweet, but are so little that they cannot live in just beds like other -babies. They should have had “The Blue Bird” to read before they came -and then they would not have been in so much of a hurry, because it -cannot be any fun to be shut up in there. - -We were hungry when we saw the chickens being roasted in front of a -cafe, so we went in and had some lunch, and came out in time to see the -big man walk across the Zone on a wire stretched away above our heads. -We bought some candies, and saw them being made, and father bought us -each a Nova Gem pendant, so we should not forget how the Tower sparkles -in the sun, and then we went down to see the man fly. He writes his name -in the sky, but it does not stay there very long. Father says Fame is -like that. - -Then we came out and stood and looked back at the Tower, and out under -the arches, out to where the bay was shining in the setting sun, and -were glad that we had come. Father asked us what we had liked most. We -couldn’t answer just at first, but after we were outside we knew. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: What We Saw At Madame World's Fair - Being a Series of Letters From the Twins at the - Panama-Pacific International Exposition to Their Cousins - at Home - -Author: Elizabeth Gordon - -Illustrator: Bertha Corbett - -Release Date: March 29, 2016 [EBook #51599] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT WE SAW AT MADAME WORLD'S FAIR *** - - - - -Produced by David Edwards, Chuck Greif and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="289" height="500" alt="" title="" /> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width:50%;"> -<a href="images/frontis_lg.jpg"> -<img src="images/frontis_sml.jpg" width="341" height="500" alt="The dear little thing reminded us of spring rain, and -morning sunshine, and nooks in the woods where the first violets grow. -She is called “Wild Flower.”" /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">The dear little thing reminded us of spring rain, and -morning sunshine, and nooks in the woods where the first violets grow. -She is called “Wild Flower.”</span> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_i" id="page_i"></a>{i}</span></p> - -<h1> -WHAT WE SAW AT<br /> -MADAME WORLD’S FAIR</h1> - -<p class="cb">BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM THE<br /> -TWINS AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC<br /> -INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION<br /> -TO THEIR COUSINS<br /> -AT HOME<br /> -BY<br /> -<big>ELIZABETH GORDON</big><br /> - -AUTHOR OF<br /> -“FLOWER CHILDREN”<br /> -“BIRD CHILDREN”<br /> -ETC.<br /> -<br /> -WITH DRAWINGS BY<br /> - -<big>BERTHA CORBETT</big><br /> -<br /><br /> -SAN FRANCISCO:<br /> -SAMUEL LEVINSON·PUBLISHER<br /> -1915<br /> -<br /> -<small><i>Copyright 1915</i><br /> -by Samuel Levinson</small><br /> -<br /> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_ii" id="page_ii"></a>{ii}</span><br /> -<br /> -<small>San Francisco:<br /> -The Blair-Murdock Company<br /> -Printers</small></p> - -<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a>CONTENTS</h2> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_iii" id="page_iii"></a>{iii}</span></p> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary=""> - -<tr><td> </td><td class="rt"><small>Page</small></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#PREFACE">Preface</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_v">v</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#A_LETTER_HOME">A Letter Home</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_001">1</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#FESTIVAL_HALL">Festival Hall</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_006">6</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_PALACE_OF_VARIED_INDUSTRIES">The Palace of Varied Industries</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_009">9</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_PALACE_OF_MACHINERY">The Palace of Machinery</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_012">12</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_PALACE_OF_MINES">The Palace of Mines</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_014">14</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_PALACE_OF_TRANSPORTATION">The Palace of Transportation</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_017">17</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_PALACE_OF_MANUFACTURES">The Palace of Manufactures</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_020">20</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#OUR_HOSTESS">Our Hostess</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_023">23</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_PALACE_OF_FINE_ARTS">The Palace of Fine Arts</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_025">25</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_PALACE_OF_EDUCATION">The Palace of Education</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_028">28</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#WHAT_WE_SAW_AT_THE_PALACE_OF_FOOD_PRODUCTS">What We Saw at the Palace of Food Products</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_031">31</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_PALACE_OF_AGRICULTURE">The Palace of Agriculture</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_034">34</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_PALACE_OF_LIBERAL_ARTS">The Palace of Liberal Arts</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_037">37</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_PALACE_OF_HORTICULTURE">The Palace of Horticulture</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_040">40</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#OUR_FIRST_LESSON_IN_SCULPTURE">Our First Lesson in Sculpture</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_043">43</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_COURT_OF_THE_UNIVERSE">The Court of the Universe</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_046">46</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_COURT_OF_ABUNDANCE">The Court of Abundance</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_049">49</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_COURT_OF_THE_FOUR_SEASONS_THE_COURT_OF_FLOWERS">The Court of the Four Seasons—The Court of Flowers</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_052">52</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#MURAL_PAINTINGS">Mural Paintings</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_055">55</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#WHAT_WE_DID_IN_ITALY">What We Did in Italy</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_058">58</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#OUR_VISIT_IN_TEHUAN-TEPEC">Our Visit in Tehuantepec</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_061">61</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#OUR_VISIT_TO_JAPAN">Our Visit to Japan</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_064">64</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#CANADA_THE_BEAUTIFUL">Canada the Beautiful</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_067">67</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#OUR_CHINESE_VISIT">Our Chinese Visit</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_070">70</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#MORE_FOREIGN_TRAVEL">More Foreign Travel</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_073">73</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#OUR_DAY_IN_SWEDEN">Our Day in Sweden</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_076">76</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_FIREWORKS_AND_ILLUMINATIONS">The Fireworks and Illuminations</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_079">79</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#THE_PANAMA_CANAL_CONCESSION">The Panama Canal Concession</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_082">82</a></td></tr> -<tr><td><a href="#OUR_DAY_ON_THE_ZONE">Our Day on the Zone</a></td><td class="rt" valign="bottom"><a href="#page_084">84</a></td></tr> -</table> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_iv" id="page_iv"></a>{iv}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="PREFACE" id="PREFACE"></a> -<img src="images/preface.png" width="500" height="130" alt="Preface" /> -</h2> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_v" id="page_v"></a>{v}</span></p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">F</span><b>OR</b> <i>many years it has been the dream of Madame World to have a canal -cut through the narrow strip of land between the East and the West, so -that folks might visit each other without having to go so far around.</i></p> - -<p><i>Also she thought that one family might have something which another -family might use if there were a short way to send it across.</i></p> - -<p><i>And there were other reasons: Families should know each other, and be -able to share each other’s joys and sorrows.</i></p> - -<p><i>Madame World said so much about it, that one of her older daughters -tried to get the work done, without success, and, finally, Uncle Sam -said, “Very well, Mother, I believe you are right about this; and though -I am your very youngest son, if you will let me try, I promise you that -I<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_vi" id="page_vi"></a>{vi}</span> will cut a canal through that swampy back yard of yours, and that -your biggest ships shall float safely through.”</i></p> - -<p><i>Then Madame World said: “Those are brave words, my son, but you have -not taken account of the difficulties in the way. Things called Fevers -lurk in the swamps ready to spring upon you, and there is also a monster -whose name is Malaria.”</i></p> - -<p><i>“Nonsense, Mother mine,” replied Uncle Sam, “those things are born of -Fear, and I do not know Fear and will not listen to him. I will cut the -canal for you.”</i></p> - -<p><i>So Madame World gave her son permission to go to work, and in a short -time the work was finished, and Uncle Sam presented his lady mother with -the Panama Canal.</i></p> - -<p><i>Madame World decided to celebrate the event, and sent out invitations -to her families to come to a big party which she would give. She asked -them to bring their families, and their work, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_vii" id="page_vii"></a>{vii}</span> their fruits and -grains, and learn to know each other.</i></p> - -<p><i>Then she looked around for a place to picnic, where this big family -could be fed and housed, and where the elements were most friendly.</i></p> - -<p><i>Away out on the edge of the Pacific Ocean she saw the golden glow of -California’s magic city of San Francisco, and she said, “These people -have been brave under many difficulties, and they are a faithful people. -They shall have the honor.”</i></p> - -<p><i>So that is why Madame World has given us this big beautiful Fair, which -everybody will always remember. It is the celebration of a dream come -true.</i><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_viii" id="page_viii"></a>{viii}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/towerofjewels_lg.jpg"> -<img src="images/towerofjewels_sml.jpg" width="500" height="320" alt="Night Illumination, Tower of Jewels." /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">Night Illumination, Tower of Jewels.</span> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_001" id="page_001"></a>{1}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="A_LETTER_HOME" id="A_LETTER_HOME"></a> -<img src="images/aletterhome.png" width="500" height="121" alt="A Letter Home." title="" /> -</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">F</span><b>OR</b> weeks and months we had been reading every scrap of information we -could find about the wonderful Fair which was to be given in San -Francisco, the city of our dreams.</p> - -<p>We had not even imagined that we could go to it, because mother could -not come until later, and then school would be in session, so when -father said that we might come with him we were more than thankful.</p> - -<p>Mother looked a little doubtful, but father said, “Nonsense, it is no -trick at all for me to take them.” Madame World has sent us an -invitation to her Fair and we could not think of refusing. So we came at -once.</p> - -<p>We have been so wishing that you could be here with us that father has -suggested that we write you a letter every day, and tell you about some -of the things that we see.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_002" id="page_002"></a>{2}</span></p> - -<p>We think it is a good plan, and we shall try to make the letters as full -of interest as possible, in the hope that we may show you something of -it, and at the same time fix it in our own memories.</p> - -<p>First, then, this Wonder City by the Sea is a real city, even though it -does, as we heard a lady remark today, look like a poet’s dream.</p> - -<p>It has a bank, and a postoffice, a hospital, a fire department, a hotel, -a street car, houses for the different families of the world to live in, -and in fact about everything which any city needs.</p> - -<p>The buildings and statuary are made of a kind of cement, called -artificial travertine, tinted to look like terra cotta.</p> - -<p>Real travertine is a pure carbonate of lime formed from dripping water -which bears a lime deposit, and is found in Rome, where it is much used -in building and for statuary. The imitation travertine was discovered by -Mr. Paul Denneville of New York, and we have to thank him for the fact -that after all day at the Fair our eyes are not in the least tired; it -is due to the fact that the material is easily tinted, that Mr. Jules -Guerin who composed the color scheme of the whole Fair was able to carry -out his ideas.</p> - -<p>You will remember that Mr. Guerin is the man<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_003" id="page_003"></a>{3}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/p002.png" width="414" height="568" alt="Madame World has sent us an invitation to her Fair and we -could not think of refusing. So we came at once." title="" /> -<br /> -<span class="caption">Madame World has sent us an invitation to her Fair and we -could not think of refusing. So we came at once.</span> -</div> - -<p class="nind">who makes the color pictures which we have so much admired in the -“Century Magazine.”</p> - -<p>The roofs are covered with artificial tiles, and the contrast between -the pinkish walls and the red of the roofs makes a picture which will -never be forgotten.</p> - -<p>It seems a pity that the city cannot remain, but it is not built for -permanency, father says, but is like a beautiful dream, which seems so -real that the memory stays always, and that its influence will color our -whole lives, and make each one of us better for having seen it.</p> - -<p>And when we got our first glimpse of the Tower! We couldn’t even say -“Oh!” We just looked at each other, and then back at the Fair city, just -to make sure we were not dreaming.</p> - -<p>There was the beautiful Tower of Jewels, smiling and twinkling its -shining eyes at us, and saying, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page_004" id="page_004"></a>{4}</span>“Come in, children; come in, and walk -under my beautiful blue arches, and through my magic courts, and my -sheltered gardens, and be happy, and love each other and all the -children of the world. Peace I offer you, and Plenty, and Harmony, and -Beauty. Here you are safe, and here you are welcome. Come in, my -children.”</p> - -<p>So in we went. The sun was shining, the blue waters of the bay were -sparkling, bands were playing, the red and yellow flags were flying in -the sweet salt breezes, and the lovely white pigeons were cooing; and -best of all, little white people, and little brown people, and little -yellow people were here and there and everywhere, all happy and smiling -and glad that they had come.</p> - -<p>We will tell you about the Tower. It is Madame World’s expression of joy -and satisfaction that the Canal is finished, and it is really the key to -the whole Fair. Mr. Thomas Hastings of New York designed it. It is four -hundred and forty-three feet in height, and the arch, which is the -gateway to the Fair, is sixty feet wide and one hundred and ten feet -high.</p> - -<p>On the pedestals are figures of men who have made the world what it is -today. There are fifty thousand jewels on the Tower, of five -colors—canary, amethyst, ruby, aquamarine, and white. These were made -in Austria, of a peculiar kind of sand which produces a very hard glass, -called Sumatra stone, and which takes a high polish. The jewels were cut -exactly like precious stones, and are called Nova Gems.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_005" id="page_005"></a>{5}</span></p> - -<p>These were set in bands of metal, and suspended from hooks, each jewel -with a tiny mirror back of it.</p> - -<p>When the winds move the jewels, they catch the light, and sparkle like -real gems.</p> - -<p>At night under the illumination of the searchlights the Tower is even -more beautiful than in the sunshine.</p> - -<p>We are glad that we are going to have the memory of the Tower to take -away with us.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/p005.png" width="336" height="204" alt="" title="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_006" id="page_006"></a>{6}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="FESTIVAL_HALL" id="FESTIVAL_HALL"></a>FESTIVAL HALL</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">F</span><b>OR</b> Music, whom Madame World loves very much, she has provided an -imposing palace worthy indeed for so great a goddess.</p> - -<p>It has a wonderful arched entrance, with statues of mythological -meanings, which father explained to us, but we liked best little Pan, -who sits at the left of the entrance. He has charmed with his pipes a -chameleon, who has come to his feet to listen to the music.</p> - -<p>We often amuse ourselves by wondering how many panes of glass there are -in the great dome of the hall, but father says there is no way to be -sure.</p> - -<p>But it is a very large hall, and will hold about four thousand people, -and is not large enough even at that. Music has so many adorers, many of -whom have made a pilgrimage to hear her, and who dislike being -disappointed.</p> - -<p>To this palace will come while the Fair lasts all<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_007" id="page_007"></a>{7}</span> the worshipers of -Music, and all the world’s great orchestras, with their distinguished -leaders.</p> - -<p>Even the Boston Symphony, which so seldom ever leaves its own beloved -city, is here for a season.</p> - -<p>The Goddess of Flowers and the Goddess of Music are first cousins, and -so the lovely grounds are always crowded full of the dear little Flower -people, standing on their tiptoes to catch the strains of music as they -float out from the palace.</p> - -<p>There are whole fields full of Pansies, in their gorgeous yellow, and -brown and purple dresses, and the golden-hearted Shasta Daisies have -crowded close up to the palace walls. The lovely Lady Hydrangeas, who -wear a different gown for each month in the year, seem eager not to lose -a note, and the dainty Heaths come hurrying and laughing up the walk -from the Avenue of Palms, beckoning the baby Blue Gums across the way to -come closer.</p> - -<p>The darling naughty little California Poppies, who always go just where -they please, have simply broken loose and are everywhere you go, while -the Canterbury Bells, little rogues, who were expressly told to stay in -their own back yard, have come out in front and cuddled themselves at -the feet of the Lady<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_008" id="page_008"></a>{8}</span> Eucalyptus, who has thrown her bluish-green robe -over them, so that they may stay and hear the music.</p> - -<p>Everything around Festival Hall is harmonious and beautiful, and the -glorious sunshine is over all, and the salt breezes from the bay, whose -work it is to keep the air always clear and health-giving, are never -idle.</p> - -<p>Madame World was a wise mother when she chose this spot for her Fair.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_009" id="page_009"></a>{9}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="THE_PALACE_OF_VARIED_INDUSTRIES" id="THE_PALACE_OF_VARIED_INDUSTRIES"></a>THE PALACE OF VARIED INDUSTRIES</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span><b>HE</b> Palace of Varied Industries, where we spend a good deal of time, is -a beautiful building in the old California Mission style, and has some -fine doorways. The statuary used around the building is meant to say -that work is honorable and desirable.</p> - -<p>It is wonderful how many kinds of work there are in the world. We never -stopped to think until we came to this Fair, that everything that is -made has first to be thought out. And then all the little things that go -with it have to be thought out, even to a little flower in the wall -paper, or the way icing is put on a cake.</p> - -<p>All Madame World’s families have sent samples of work to this palace: -There are the loveliest little hand-knitted sweater dresses for children -from the Argentine, laces from Spain, cocoanut fibre hats<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_010" id="page_010"></a>{10}</span> from the -Philippine Islands, wood-carvings from Switzerland, and some equally as -pretty from South Carolina made by boys in a private school.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Adelaide Robineau has some wonderful porcelains from Syracuse, New -York, which are very beautiful.</p> - -<p>We admired the jewelry; there are gems of all sorts in hand-wrought -mountings, both ancient and modern.</p> - -<p>There are wonderful opals, tinted like the gleam in a bubble, some very -lustrous pearls, which you would think were worth the king’s ransom -which you always read about in stories, but which are made from the -scales of a little three-inch fish found in Russian waters.</p> - -<p>We nearly forgot to tell you about the silkworm exhibition. It was the -thing we liked best in the whole palace. The silkworms eat a very great -amount of mulberry leaves, and are most inexcusably particular about -their diet, and when they are ready they go into their cocoons, and that -is the last of them.</p> - -<p>Only a few are allowed to become butterflies, but they are not pretty -butterflies, anyway. When they have spun enough, and just before they -would hatch<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_011" id="page_011"></a>{11}</span> and spoil the silk, they are sterilized, and then the silk -can be unwound. They were doing that when we saw them, and they have a -delicate machine which winds the silk into nice soft yellow skeins, -ready to be woven. It is one of California’s new industries, and will be -more profitable as time goes on.</p> - -<p>There are so many things to choose from, we are not able as yet to -decide what we shall do.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_012" id="page_012"></a>{12}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/palaceofmachinery_lg.jpg"> -<img src="images/palaceofmachinery_sml.jpg" width="500" height="320" alt="Palace of Machinery." /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">Palace of Machinery.</span> -</div> - -<h2><a name="THE_PALACE_OF_MACHINERY" id="THE_PALACE_OF_MACHINERY"></a>THE PALACE OF MACHINERY</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span><b>HE</b> Palace of Machinery is just across the Avenue of Progress from the -Palace of Mines, and is an imposing building of great beauty, as befits -a god of so much power and importance. It covers nine acres of ground, -and seems to suggest strength. Father tells us that it is the largest -wooden structure in the world. He says that six million feet of lumber -were required for sheathing it and four carloads of nails and fifteen -hundred tons of bolts and washers were used in building it.</p> - -<p>We found many things of interest—machines for drilling oil wells, and -machines for refining the oil, machines for crushing great rocks, and -machines for making roads. There were canning machines, gas engines, -giant printing-presses, bookbinding machinery and all sorts of -electrical devices. Father<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_013" id="page_013"></a>{13}</span> says that every machinery appliance that has -been invented is shown here in completest detail.</p> - -<p>There was a knife in one exhibit which opened and shut all by itself; it -was a giant knife, and we said to each other that perhaps a gnome was -making it open and shut. A little boy who was near said, “Aw! Sillies! -It goes by machinery!” So then, of course, we knew!</p> - -<p>There were some moving-picture machines in the palace, but we did not -see them work, and we are going back there some day. In all the palaces -they have wonderful “movies,” and sometimes we go to them while father -looks at things.</p> - -<p>We find that it is better not to get too tired, so we went and sat in -the Avenue of Progress and listened to a band which was playing, until -father came out, and then we came home. It was a heavy day, seeing so -much massive machinery, and we were a little tired, but very glad that -we had seen it all.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_014" id="page_014"></a>{14}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="THE_PALACE_OF_MINES" id="THE_PALACE_OF_MINES"></a>THE PALACE OF MINES</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span><b>HE</b> Palace of Mines is a most interesting Palace, built in the Spanish -style, with some very fine doorways or portals.</p> - -<p>Inside we found so many things of interest that we were quite surprised, -as we had not expected to be so very much interested in mines. Father -says that we came to this Fair to learn about the things in it, and -mines are very important. We began to think he was right, when we saw -the two big balls of gold which show where the most gold comes from, and -how much is mined every year.</p> - -<p>Gold mines are not the only kind that are valuable. So many things come -from mines which we had never even wondered about before, that we wonder -now at our former ignorance. Jewels of every kind come from the -ground—lovely opals and diamonds, and our birthstone—the purple -amethyst—and rubies, and everything but pearls. It is wonderful to -think of, isn’t it? We were invited to go<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_015" id="page_015"></a>{15}</span> down in a coal mine, not a -real one, of course, but one which shows just how it looks. It was a bit -scary down there; and always after this when we are sitting before a -glowing coal fire, and perhaps popping corn over it, we shall remember -that some one went down in a dark coal mine and dug it out for us. -Father says that the Fair teaches us great lessons, and the best among -them is to be kinder to each other.</p> - -<p>When we came up from the coal mine we were taken into a dark room, like -the ones which photographers have, and shown some radium. You have to -use a sort of telescope glass, and shut one eye, and look through the -lens, and there it is hopping about in the box just as though it did not -enjoy a bit being shut up in there. Being so little of it in the world -it is tremendously expensive.</p> - -<p>We were glad to see that there are all sorts of ways to keep the men who -work in mines well and happy now, at least compared to what there used -to be, and the motto “Safety First” is all over everywhere.</p> - -<p>The machinery for working the mines was interesting to father, but it -was a little too heavy for us, so just to help us to remember that we -had seen the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_016" id="page_016"></a>{16}</span> Palace of Mines we went to a coal-mining “movie.” After -that we went and sat in the North Gardens and watched the ships go by -until father came for us. The bay is very beautiful, and we just adore -the sea-gulls. They were having a lawn party that day.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_017" id="page_017"></a>{17}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="THE_PALACE_OF_TRANSPORTATION" id="THE_PALACE_OF_TRANSPORTATION"></a> -<img src="images/p017.png" width="500" height="126" alt="The Palace of Transportation." title="" /> -</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span><b>HERE</b> are so many fascinating ways to travel now that we wonder why -anyone stays at home.</p> - -<p>Father observed today that if we were to travel in other countries for -the same length of time that this Fair is to be kept open, that we could -not possibly learn so much about the manners and customs of the people -as we can by seeing the Fair. He says it is a privilege to have seen it, -because before we are grown up there will not be another, and children -remember such things so much more vividly than grown-up people do.</p> - -<p>Today we went to the Palace of Transportation. Even Alaska is there with -some fine canoes and paddles, and models of steamships.</p> - -<p>The Philippine Islands, Uncle Sam’s little brown children of the seas, -have sent an interesting means of transportation, in the shape of a -water caribou and cart. The ox has immense horns which spread<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_018" id="page_018"></a>{18}</span> out on -each side of his head, and measure about five feet in length. They must -be heavy to carry.</p> - -<p>Contrasting with that are the great engines of our own railroads, -turning majestically on the turn-tables, which illustrate how men can -handle such monsters.</p> - -<p>There are aeroplanes and automobiles of the very latest models. Here -again we were reminded that the ideas shown are all new ones, and we -should think that Madame World would consider that her families are very -bright children.</p> - -<p>We went up on the deck of a big liner, and were quite fascinated with -the dear little rooms, with the twin beds, and pink and blue cretonne -furnishings.</p> - -<p>We wrote a letter to mother on one of the dear little desks in the room -we are going abroad in some day.</p> - -<p>Some English cars are shown, and we did not think we should care for -them, as one has to be really shut up in the compartment until it gets -to the next station; and if you do not happen to own it all, some one -whom you do not care about may be in there, and it seemed to us that it -would be unpleasant.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_019" id="page_019"></a>{19}</span></p> - -<p>We do not wish to appear unduly patriotic, but we have seen nothing as -yet which convinces us that there is any place better than our own land.</p> - -<p>But father says that every one feels that way, and of course it is very -proper.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_020" id="page_020"></a>{20}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="THE_PALACE_OF_MANUFACTURES" id="THE_PALACE_OF_MANUFACTURES"></a>THE PALACE OF MANUFACTURES</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">W</span><b>E WENT</b> across the Court of Flowers, stopping to admire the darling -pansies, to the Palace of Manufactures.</p> - -<p>This, again, is in Spanish Renaissance style, and has a figure of -Victory on the gables, another reminder that we have been victorious -with the Canal.</p> - -<p>One of the interesting things we saw here was rope-making. A large -Colonial mansion has been made of rope, the big cable kind, with pillars -and all. It was clean-looking and very ingenious. The rope is made from -the wild banana plant which grows in the Philippine Islands and does not -look as though it were good for anything. They also make rope of a plant -called “sisal,” which is a cactus plant, and grows wild in Mexico.</p> - -<p>At this place a variety of small tools had been made into a wonderful -waterfall, something like<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_021" id="page_021"></a>{21}</span> Niagara, only not so large, and a ship was -running on the river above the falls which did not look very safe to us; -it might be drawn over, we thought, but nothing happened. A very -life-like snake made of steel ran across the bank every few moments. The -boys seemed to enjoy it very much.</p> - -<p>There was also a fountain made of wire, playing in the yard, and it -looked very much like water if you wanted to help out by some pretend.</p> - -<p>A little Japanese girl in this palace is making hats all the time, but -she does not get tired because she is just a little statue, or figure, -in a glass case, but she shows how the work is done as well as though -she were alive, but you miss her smile.</p> - -<p>Broom-making is also interesting, and we watched it until we could -almost make a broom. First the man takes a handful of broom straw, and -puts it in a machine, which does something to it, and gives it back. -Then he passes it on to another man, and he puts it in another machine, -and before you know it there is a regular broom, like your mother sends -you to the grocery for.</p> - -<p>I have always thought it would be better to take the seeds out of the -broom and plant them and raise one’s own brooms, but I know better now. -The<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_022" id="page_022"></a>{22}</span> straw is put in hot water first, and so, of course, the seeds would -not grow. Besides, one would have to buy a machine.</p> - -<p>A wonderful machine from Switzerland was making hand-made embroidery, or -some that looked just as well, and we wished that you might see it.</p> - -<p>It appealed to us, because to stay in the house and embroider has never -seemed to us to be worth while, although we do like pretty things. Men -do the work with this machine, and they have a pattern of the flower -they are putting on the work pinned on the wall in front of them. I am -quite sure brother would let us go without embroidery before he would -stay in and do it.</p> - -<p>We wouldn’t mind a bit cutting and making doll clothes from the darling -paper patterns that we saw, if they would lend us a sewing-machine.</p> - -<p>But we didn’t ask to do it.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_023" id="page_023"></a>{23}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="OUR_HOSTESS" id="OUR_HOSTESS"></a>OUR HOSTESS</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">O</span><b>F COURSE</b> not every one could come to this party, no matter how much -they might wish to, so there are several States which have no mansion at -the Fair.</p> - -<p>California had thought about that, and so built a much larger house than -she would have needed for her own people, that those having no State -house might feel perfectly at home.</p> - -<p>She is always a most delightful hostess, and makes one visiting her feel -so welcome and comfortable that the visit is never forgotten. Her -beautiful mansion is made after the old Mission style, with a bell -tower, and bells, and lots and lots of room in it—parlors, cafes and -rest rooms, and a lovely ballroom where the grown-ups may amuse -themselves.</p> - -<p>We go over to California’s house when we are tired, because our State is -one of those which has no house, and one day while father was visiting -with some friends we went in the secret gardens and<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_024" id="page_024"></a>{24}</span> waited for him. It -is a lovely place, with old acacia trees in it, and a clipped Monterey -pine hedge around it, and a wishing well in the middle.</p> - -<p>It was so still and sort of whispery in there that we began to feel like -children in a story, so we pretended that we were captive maidens in an -enchanted garden. Whenever we tried to get out, the place where the gate -was a moment before was just solid hedge. We despaired! An enchanted -pigeon flew down from the blue sky! We implored her aid! So she flew -away, and then father came. We know now that we shall be famous -story-writers.</p> - -<p>In the counties’ annex, California shows that she is a whole world all -by herself. Each county has sent of her treasures, and the fruits are as -golden as the real gold which is found here.</p> - -<p>If there were nothing else to be seen at the Fair, it would still be -worth while to have come to see California, whose blue skies and golden -fields are always smiling. No one has ever seen a frown on California’s -face,—not all over at one time. We love you, California!</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_025" id="page_025"></a>{25}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/palaceoffinearts_lg.jpg"> -<img src="images/palaceoffinearts_sml.jpg" width="331" height="500" alt="Colonnade of The Palace of Fine Arts reflected in the -Lagoon." /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">Colonnade of The Palace of Fine Arts reflected in the -Lagoon.</span> -</div> - -<h2><a name="THE_PALACE_OF_FINE_ARTS" id="THE_PALACE_OF_FINE_ARTS"></a>THE PALACE OF FINE ARTS</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">W</span><b>E</b> fear that we are not old enough to write to anyone about the Palace -of Fine Arts, it is so wonderful, especially when it is reflected in the -little lake where the swans live.</p> - -<p>We got our first glimpse of it in the lake, and we almost thought we -must have gone to Greece, and had not heard about it yet, because it -looked like something out of our Greek book.</p> - -<p>We walked around among the lovely trees, and went in and stood in the -colonnade. It was so still and hushed, and different from the rest of -the palaces, that it made us feel peaceful and holy, like going to -early-morning service on Easter Day.</p> - -<p>The galleries were a bit bewildering to us, there were so many pictures, -but we wandered around by ourselves, and found some fascinating screens -of lovely Chinese cats, and roosters, which we understood.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_026" id="page_026"></a>{26}</span> There were -more of our Swedish snow pictures, and away down in a little room at the -end we found some miniatures which we loved. It made us feel quite -acquainted and welcome to find a miniature called “A Mountain Lassie” -which was painted by Bertha Corbett Melcher, our own dear Sunbonnet -Babies lady.</p> - -<p>We wandered out in the grounds to wait for father, and there among the -shrubbery we found the darlingest little Pan, with his pipes. We stayed -with him a long time. Janet Scudder sculped him. Then we came to the -very prettiest thing we have found at the Fair—a dear little child -figure, standing on tiptoe, with her hands outstretched to us, and her -baby face full of joy, as though she had just seen the world for the -first time and loved it. She is called “Wild Flower” and was made by -Edward Berge. The dear little thing reminded us of spring rain, and -morning sunshine, and nooks in the woods where the first violets grow.</p> - -<p>There is another figure by Mr. Berge, called “Boy and Frog,” and many -other dear little baby figures which we did not have time to learn -about, because it was time to go home.</p> - -<p>Father was pleased that we had found something<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_027" id="page_027"></a>{27}</span> to interest us. We -intend to study the Expression of Art, because we feel so much better in -our hearts when we find some beautiful thing which we can understand.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_028" id="page_028"></a>{28}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/palaceofeducation_lg.jpg"> -<img src="images/palaceofeducation_sml.jpg" width="500" height="319" alt="Western Façade, Palace of Education, Looking across Fine -Arts Lagoon." /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">Western Façade, Palace of Education, Looking across Fine -Arts Lagoon.</span> -</div> - -<h2><a name="THE_PALACE_OF_EDUCATION" id="THE_PALACE_OF_EDUCATION"></a>THE PALACE OF EDUCATION</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">T</span><b>HE</b> Palace of Education has a most beautiful entrance, which is as it -should be, because education is the most necessary thing in the world. -Father says that we do not at all realize our blessings because things -are made so easy for us. He says that he and Mr. Abraham Lincoln did not -have things so easy.</p> - -<p>But it could not have been so bad, because see what splendid men they -both grew up! We found so many things of interest that we could not -begin to tell you about them. But the thing which most interested us was -the vocational schools which Massachusetts was showing.</p> - -<p>Their motto, “Earning while learning,” does seem so sensible. They -explain that there will always be some children who will have to help -support themselves,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_029" id="page_029"></a>{29}</span> and so Massachusetts, like Sentimental Tommy, has -found a way.</p> - -<p>The children go to school one week, and work in a factory the next week, -turn and turn about. Massachusetts has a large number of factories and -so can make an arrangement of this sort, but she believes that other -communities have some industries which could furnish work for children.</p> - -<p>Another school idea appealed to us more: We do not like to think of -other little children having to work when we have so many good times, -and we hope that there will be found a way, very soon, so that they need -not do it.</p> - -<p>But the idea is this, and it also belongs to Massachusetts: They build a -schoolhouse in the center of say twenty-five miles of country. They put -teachers there, but no pupils. The whole radius of twenty-five miles is -the school. If a boy over fourteen, who has attended regular school up -to that time, wishes to start a business, so that he can both earn and -learn, whether it is chicken-raising, carpentering, fruit-growing, -dairying, anything which he can do in the country, he becomes a pupil in -the school, and is entitled to one visit a week from a teacher, who will -not only show him how to do the work, but will instruct<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_030" id="page_030"></a>{30}</span> him how to -market his wares. He is expected to keep along in regular school work as -well, so that when he is twenty-one he will have a business, and some -money in the bank. Father said that was real common sense applied. There -are also schools in home-making, where any girl from seven to seventy -years of age can learn all about housekeeping, and taking care of -children. We saw some lovely leather bags made by the high school pupils -of Minneapolis, which father said were worthy of skilled workmen.</p> - -<p>We have not yet decided upon a life work, but we are going to learn to -make gingerbread and jam, currant jam.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/p030.png" width="145" height="195" alt="" title="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_031" id="page_031"></a>{31}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="WHAT_WE_SAW_AT_THE_PALACE_OF_FOOD_PRODUCTS" id="WHAT_WE_SAW_AT_THE_PALACE_OF_FOOD_PRODUCTS"></a>WHAT WE SAW AT THE PALACE OF FOOD PRODUCTS</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">F</span><b>RONTING</b> on the Esplanade we found the Food Products Palace. Madame -World considers that it is most important that the Spirit of Plenty, who -rules food production, should have a palace worthy of her august -Highness.</p> - -<p>They were cooking so many things, and showing such quantities of food -that it was most surprising. We were offered almost everything to eat -that we had ever heard of, and some that we did not know existed. We -were willing to sample them all, but father said that he did not believe -we had better try to eat in so many languages. So we just had an oatmeal -scone, and some puffed rice, and some Chinese cookies, a cup of -chocolate, and a bit of biscuit, and a few other little things, but the -others all looked good.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_032" id="page_032"></a>{32}</span></p> - -<p>A lady has the most fascinating display of flowers made out of butter, -red roses, and yellow roses, and water-lilies, and tulips, all growing -on a lattice work inside her refrigerator. The colored flowers may be -eaten because it is all colored with pure food colors. You could not -tell that the flowers were not real, they look as though they grew -there. She must have a lovely soul.</p> - -<p>We wandered around to see the Aquarium. The fishes are lovely; we wish -they did not have to be called Food Products. The Shovel-nosed Sturgeon -is very probably a cousin to old Mr. Alligator, because he looks like -him. He has the same bony humps on his back, and his head is shaped -almost the same.</p> - -<p>The Gar Pike looks like a submarine, and holds his body very rigidly, -swimming only with his fins. He is grey and looks very cool and calm.</p> - -<p>In one pool with some big blue Catfishes were some Salamanders, with -funny furry tufts on their heads. They were lazy and would not get up. -They resemble lizards. There was a whole tank of lovely Golden Perch -from Catalina. They have faces with real foreheads, and a very bored and -haughty expression.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_033" id="page_033"></a>{33}</span> There were also some lovely Rainbow Trout from -Canada’s mountain streams.</p> - -<p>We were much interested in the fish-hatching processes. The eggs are -kept under running water on a sort of griddle or coarse net, and when -one little wiggly fellow comes out he uncoils and is long instead of -round as he was in the egg, and so he drops down into the bottom of the -tank, and begins to be a fish. He carries the rest of the egg around -with him for a few days so that he need not be hungry until he has -absorbed the nutrition it gives him.</p> - -<p>Fishes do not care much about their relations except for dinner, as they -are real cannibals. I suppose they do not know any better, but it seems -unfortunate. I fear we neglected the rest of the palace.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_034" id="page_034"></a>{34}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="THE_PALACE_OF_AGRICULTURE" id="THE_PALACE_OF_AGRICULTURE"></a> -<img src="images/p034.png" width="500" height="123" alt="The Palace of Agriculture" title="" /> -</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">W</span><b>E WENT</b> around through the Court of the Universe, and across the Aisle -of the Setting Sun to the Palace of Agriculture, which is very beautiful -indeed.</p> - -<p>We suppose that Madame World wished to do all the honor possible to the -Goddess of Agriculture, as she is a most useful goddess, and the world -could not do without her, because she has to furnish food for all the -earth.</p> - -<p>We get used to taking things very much for granted, and do not seem to -be interested in where things come from, and so that is why such a Fair -as this is useful. It lets us know to whom we are indebted for the -things we eat. Iowa had a real mountain of corn, lovely golden corn, and -Vermont had real maple sugar to eat on the Johnnie cake the corn would -make.</p> - -<p>North Carolina and South Carolina send us rice, and Cuba sends us -coffee, and South America sends<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_035" id="page_035"></a>{35}</span> fruits and also coffee, China sends tea -and preserved ginger and funny nuts, and California and Florida give us -oranges and grapefruit and strawberries, and almost everything good to -eat, and the Philippines send us cocoanuts and Hawaii sends pineapples. -Did you know that peanuts grow on a vine in the ground, and that bananas -do not grow on a tree but on a tall ferny-looking thing which is not a -tree, and pineapples grow on short plants which are set out every year? -It takes a long time for the pineapple to perfect itself, but we did not -learn just how long.</p> - -<p>A gentleman from Cuba showed us a collection of fruit which is grown in -that island, including the avocado, or alligator pear. It is a very -wonderful fruit, and there is a tree in Southern California which is -insured for thirty thousand dollars.</p> - -<p>But the big red apples from Oregon were of more interest to us, because -we know that we like those, and do not have to take any risks. And the -lovely juicy golden oranges of California are good enough for us. But we -liked to see all the things that have grown from the ground, because we -can never quite understand the marvel of it—how a little seed knows -quite well what it is going to be when it comes up. We know, because we -planted some lettuce one year<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_036" id="page_036"></a>{36}</span> and it came up turnips. It said lettuce -on the paper, but the seeds knew all the time that they were no such -thing.</p> - -<p>We could not be deceived like that again, because we know the difference -now between lettuce and turnip seed.</p> - -<p>We asked father if he did not think that Madame World should be very -proud of her children, and he said yes, he did think so, and also that -it was a great privilege to belong to her.</p> - -<p>Father says such wise things!</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/p036.png" width="252" height="189" alt="" title="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_037" id="page_037"></a>{37}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="THE_PALACE_OF_LIBERAL_ARTS" id="THE_PALACE_OF_LIBERAL_ARTS"></a>THE PALACE OF LIBERAL ARTS</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">A</span><b>S WE</b> went in the door of the Liberal Arts father called our attention -to the doorway, and also to the panel, representing the making of things -which we use, and the figure of the lady with the spindle, and the man -with the hammer.</p> - -<p>These were made by Mr. Mahonri Young of Salt Lake City, Utah, and are -meant to show that work is honorable and desirable.</p> - -<p>All the ideas shown in this building are not more than ten years old, or -if older they have been greatly improved in that time.</p> - -<p>The telephone, for instance, has been so much improved that it is very -much more practical. We were allowed to hear a telephone message from -New York the other day, and shown movies of how they put the poles and -wires over the mountains. It was like magic. Now comes along a machine, -which we were<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_038" id="page_038"></a>{38}</span> shown in the Palace of Liberal Arts, which really is a -wizardry sort of thing, as it takes your message if you telephone when -your friend is out, and repeats it to him in your own voice when he -returns. We know because we tried it. The man asked us to speak into the -telephone, and then let us hold the machine to our ears and it spoke -right back to us. We have always thought such a machine would be a help, -especially if we wanted to stay at grandmother’s for supper, and could -not get mother on the ’phone.</p> - -<p>Bookbinding appeals to us very much indeed, because it is so smooth and -shows that one has taken pains with the work, and perhaps we shall -become bookbinders. A lady had some beautiful leather bindings there, -and she was most kind about explaining.</p> - -<p>We thought we would like one of the dear little cameras that go in a -hand-bag, and take little bits of pictures which afterward grow into big -ones, but father said we must wait for that. So we went to see the -apparatus for taking the “movies,” and also looked at the lovely -autochromes. It is too bad that they will not reprint in color, but -before the next ten years of course they will.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_039" id="page_039"></a>{39}</span></p> - -<p>We wonder if you have seen the new lawn sprinkler which jumps around -from one place to another on the lawn. When we went home today we saw it -at work out in the lawns, and we could scarcely believe our eyes. It -sprinkled one place until it thought, apparently, that it was wet -enough, and then it bobbed out of sight and came up about ten feet away, -working like mad. Really if you did not know about it, it would make you -think you were asleep and dreaming a fairy story.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_040" id="page_040"></a>{40}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/palaceofhorticulture_lg.jpg"> -<img src="images/palaceofhorticulture_sml.jpg" width="500" height="321" alt="Palace of Horticulture, looking across the Great South -Gardens." /></a> -</div> - -<h2><a name="THE_PALACE_OF_HORTICULTURE" id="THE_PALACE_OF_HORTICULTURE"></a>THE PALACE OF HORTICULTURE</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">H</span><b>ORTICULTURE</b>, as you know, is the art of making things grow, like grass -and flowers and blooming trees and shrubs, which add so much to the -beauty of the world.</p> - -<p>The Goddess of Horticulture, whose name is Flora, should be very happy -in the palace which Madame World has provided for her at the Fair, -because it is extremely beautiful.</p> - -<p>Madame values the goddess Flora very highly, and loves her dearly, -because she knows what a very different place this world would be -without her.</p> - -<p>Her palace at the Fair has a wonderful dome, where the sun shines in all -day, and several smaller domes, so that the palace is always light and -cheerful.</p> - -<p>A perfect thicket of trees and shrubs and flowers<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_041" id="page_041"></a>{41}</span> surround it, seeming -to peep in at their less hardy sisters who live inside the palace.</p> - -<p>The wonder worker among flowers and fruits and vegetables, Mr. Luther -Burbank, has his headquarters at the Fair, and will be happy to tell any -one just how to create new flowers and fruits, and give advice on -gardening.</p> - -<p>We wanted to ask him why he wanted a red poppy instead of a golden one, -but we did not. We love the poppies golden just as they are, and we did -not a single bit like the nasturtium-colored ones we saw there. But of -course we are only children, and he is very wise.</p> - -<p>The people from the Netherlands have a great garden of bulb plants in -the grounds, and the Japanese people have cherry, plum, and other -ornamental trees, as well as rare flowers.</p> - -<p>A gardener told father that the great eucalyptus trees and the -cypresses—many of them sixty feet tall—had been brought down from a -park and put there around the walls of the palace. We wondered how they -liked being transplanted.</p> - -<p>But they were playing quite happily with the little winds from the ocean -and seemed quite contented. The gardener told us that they were going -back<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_042" id="page_042"></a>{42}</span> home after the Fair is over, so perhaps they had heard.</p> - -<p>We are planning a garden for next year. We shall have heaps of poppies.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_043" id="page_043"></a>{43}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="OUR_FIRST_LESSON_IN_SCULPTURE" id="OUR_FIRST_LESSON_IN_SCULPTURE"></a>OUR FIRST LESSON IN SCULPTURE</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">W</span><b>HEN</b> we had looked, and looked, and looked at the Tower, and had almost -counted every jewel on it, we were so delighted with it, father called -our attention to the Fountain of Energy, made by Mr. A. Stirling Calder, -and told us about its meaning, or symbolism.</p> - -<p>The sculptor means to convey the idea that the Canal has been finished -because of the pluck and energy and courage of our nation, and that now -we are going on to better things.</p> - -<p>The queer sea creatures at the base of the fountain are supposed to be -carrying on their backs the four oceans, the North and South Arctic, and -the Atlantic and Pacific.</p> - -<p>The figure of the man on the horse certainly looks very animated, and we -supposed that the figures standing on his shoulders are heralds who are -to clear the way for him.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_044" id="page_044"></a>{44}</span></p> - -<p>Near Horticultural Hall in the South Gardens, at the left of the -Fountain of Energy, is a Mermaid Fountain by Mr. Arthur Putnam, which is -repeated at the right in front of Festival Hall. That gives you a -picture of the tower and what we saw from the main gate as we went in.</p> - -<p>Father said that as we had made so good a start, it would be wise to -keep on with sculpture for the rest of the day. He pointed out to us the -figure of Victory, which has been placed on each one of the palaces, and -then took us to the Court of Palms to see Mr. James Earle Fraser’s “The -End of the Trail.” We felt just how tired both man and horse were, and -felt sorry for them both. We asked father why they had come so far to -get themselves exhausted like that, and he again told us something of -symbolism.</p> - -<p>The statue is intended to represent the redman, and denotes that the -race is vanishing, and is supposed to be studied in connection with the -“Pioneer,” Mr. Solon Borglum’s very fine statue in the Court of Flowers. -That is meant to say that the white race will take up the work of -progress and carry it on. We completed the lesson by going to see the -Column of Progress at the end of the Court<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_045" id="page_045"></a>{45}</span> of the Universe. The -bas-relief, that means the flat figures on the surface, by Mr. Isadore -Konti, show men have striven for the best in life. The group at the top -of the column, by Mr. Hermon A. McNeil, is a great work, father says, -and is meant to express the idea of effort.</p> - -<p>The artist has also expressed the thought that no man can accomplish -anything alone, but must have the love and support of his fellow beings. -We think that is a beautiful thought.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_046" id="page_046"></a>{46}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="THE_COURT_OF_THE_UNIVERSE" id="THE_COURT_OF_THE_UNIVERSE"></a>THE COURT OF THE UNIVERSE</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">W</span><b>HILE</b> we were in the Court of the Universe, father thought we had better -have another lesson on sculpture.</p> - -<p>He considers that the fountains of The Rising Sun and Descending Night -are the very finest things at the Fair, and he has traveled abroad and -is a good judge. They are the work of Adolph A. Weinman. Father wants us -to put in the names of sculptors and artists not because he expects us -to remember them just now, but because big brother will want to know.</p> - -<p>The very big groups on the triumphal arches attracted our attention, and -we asked about them and what they were supposed to mean. Everything -about the Fair has some meaning, but we do not expect to get it all. The -group with the elephant and the Oriental gentlemen represents Eastern -civilization on the way to meet Western civilization, which<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_047" id="page_047"></a>{47}</span> is -represented by the group on the other arch—that with the prairie -schooner drawn by oxen, and the figure of the Alaskan woman.</p> - -<p>The Spirit of the East marching to meet The Spirit of the West is meant -to typify the meeting of the world’s families now that the Canal has -been completed.</p> - -<p>The groups are the work of A. Stirling Calder, Leo Lentelli, and -Frederick G. R. Roth.</p> - -<p>Father liked very much the “Hopes of the Future” and “The Mother of -Tomorrow,” two of Mr. Calder’s best things, in the group.</p> - -<p>We liked, especially after the lights were on, the figures representing -stars, of which so many are used in the avenue leading north.</p> - -<p>Mr. Robert I. Aitken has four good figures in this court, and in the -evening when the lights were on and the vapor was rising from the urns -it looked like a story out of the Arabian Nights.</p> - -<p>The flowers are lovely, and you never for a moment feel away from home, -because all the courts are so homey-feeling, just like one’s own garden.</p> - -<p>Father said after awhile that he thought it would be well for us to see -something that we could really understand, and so he took us over to see -Edith<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_048" id="page_048"></a>{48}</span> Woodman Burroughs’ dear little figure of “Youth” which she has -made for a fountain. We just loved it, it looks so girly, and we were -also much interested in the Fountain of Eldorado by Mrs. Whitney, -because we have read the story about Ponce de Leon.</p> - -<p>It would be nice to be a sculptor if one were a boy, unless one could be -an aviator.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/p048.png" width="199" height="320" alt="Youth." title="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_049" id="page_049"></a>{49}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="THE_COURT_OF_ABUNDANCE" id="THE_COURT_OF_ABUNDANCE"></a> -<img src="images/p049.png" width="500" height="125" alt="The Court of Abundance" title="" /> -</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">W</span><b>E ARE</b> very happy and cheerful children—we have often heard people say -so—but behind our smiling faces lies the deep and consuming sorrow that -we have not a brother of our own age.</p> - -<p>We can never understand why kind Providence did not create us triplets -instead of twins and make one-third of us boy! It would have made no -difference to kind Providence, and would have been much better for us.</p> - -<p>We have never needed a brother as much as we do in seeing this Fair, -though of course we say nothing to father about it as we realize that he -is doing his best for us, but he so often has to leave us while he -attends to some business or other, and then it is we feel the need of a -brother of our own age. An older one would be of no use, as our -fifteen-year-old one is not any good to us. He says he has interests of -his own.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_050" id="page_050"></a>{50}</span></p> - -<p>We were waiting in the Court of Abundance today for father, and were -having a lovely time pretending that the lanterns between the arches -were the homes of the light fairies, which would come out after the sun -went away, and waving their golden wands would say, “Let there be -light,” and there would be light, and that the color fairies would come -down from the pictures and dance with the light fairies, and goodness -only knows what we might not have accomplished in the way of a six best -seller when a young sparrow fell out of his nest. He was disturbed about -it, very naturally, but we were so sorry for him that we could not go on -with our pretend. If we had had a brother of course he could have -climbed up and put the poor little thing back, but a guard came and got -him, and while of course we shall never know what happened, we have our -fears.</p> - -<p>Father came just then and we asked him if he wanted to give us a lesson, -and he remarked that he feared the Court of Abundance was almost too big -for a couple of ten-year-old tots to get much out of except perhaps -fresh air and incipient inspiration. That cannot be as serious as it -sounds, because we are sure father would not expose us to anything, but<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_051" id="page_051"></a>{51}</span> -we shall look up “incipient” as soon as we get home.</p> - -<p>We stayed down and saw the lights this evening and when the vapor is -rising from the urns and the serpents are writhing, or at least seeming -to, and all the lanterns are lighted, it looks like something out of our -Arabian Nights’ book.</p> - -<p>We shall try to finish our little play sometime, when the sparrows have -taught their young ones to fly properly.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_052" id="page_052"></a>{52}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/nightillumination_lg.jpg"> -<img src="images/nightillumination_sml.jpg" width="500" height="318" alt="Night Illumination—Niche in the Court of the Four -Seasons." /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">Night Illumination—Niche in the Court of the Four -Seasons.</span> -</div> - -<h2><a name="THE_COURT_OF_THE_FOUR_SEASONS_THE_COURT_OF_FLOWERS" id="THE_COURT_OF_THE_FOUR_SEASONS_THE_COURT_OF_FLOWERS"></a>THE COURT OF THE FOUR SEASONS—THE COURT OF FLOWERS</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">W</span><b>E LOVE</b> the Court of the Four Seasons, by Mr. Henry Bacon. It is so -homey and lovely in there that we feel that we could be perfectly happy -all day and every day in there. We like to hear the birds talking about -their nests, and how many eggs there are now, and when the young ones -are going to have their first flying lesson. We love also Ceres, the -Goddess of Agriculture, who is standing on a pedestal on top of the -lovely fountain. Mrs. Evelyn Longman is the lady who made it. The young -ladies who dance around the base of the pedestal are so happy that you -almost expect them to join hands and jump down and dance on the grass. -Mr. Albert Jaegers’ Feast of the Sacrifice is in this court also, but we -did not care so much about the symbolism of that. The artist has made<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_053" id="page_053"></a>{53}</span> -it seem so real that we are sorry for the poor animal, which we are sure -does not wish to be sacrificed.</p> - -<p>But when we are in this lovely court it is impossible not to be happy, -so we enjoy the flowers, and the statuary without thinking too much of -what the symbolism is. Father says that we can think of that later, when -we are older.</p> - -<p>The Fountain of the Earth is in this court, and we like to watch the -play of the water over the dome of the fountain.</p> - -<p>In front of the Court of Flowers stands “The American Pioneer,” by Mr. -Solon Borglum, which we like very much, because it looks like something -out of our story books, which is not a very good reason, father says, -because it is meant to show that these fine old men and women came first -and made a way for us, and if they had not, we should have no beautiful -Fair today.</p> - -<p>This court is supposed to be the Court of Oriental Fairy Tales, but so -far we have not met any one whom we know especially, except “Beauty and -the Beast,” by Edgar Walters, and they do not seem quite in the right -place.</p> - -<p>Mr. Calder’s Flower Girls, with their garlands, make the place seem very -gay and happy, but the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_054" id="page_054"></a>{54}</span> real flowers were what we liked best, and we -could sit for hours and hours in this beautiful spot, watching the big -butterflies flitting over the pansy beds, and the bronze, ruby-throated -humming-birds flashing like jewels escaped from the Tower.</p> - -<p>This Fair makes us wonder why people do not make gardens prettier, and -not live in houses as much as they now do.</p> - -<p>We suppose it is because they cannot all live in California, where -out-of-doors is nearly always nice.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/p054.png" width="172" height="238" alt="" title="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_055" id="page_055"></a>{55}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="MURAL_PAINTINGS" id="MURAL_PAINTINGS"></a>MURAL PAINTINGS</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">F</span><b>ATHER</b> said today that he was afraid we had not learned much about the -murals, and we said that we would like to study them more, but they were -so high up that we got a dreadfully achy neck every time we tried to do -much with them.</p> - -<p>He laughed a little at that, but said that it was an affliction which -had to be borne, as he was anxious that we should study them. He wishes -us to be able to read pictures as well as we do print, or music, because -they always have some story to tell which helps in life.</p> - -<p>We are glad now that he insisted, because otherwise we should have -missed seeing Mr. Robert Reid’s pictures in the dome of the Palace of -Fine Arts.</p> - -<p>We liked very much the panels which symbolize the four golds of -California, the poppies, the oranges, the gold, and the wheat. We have -secured<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_056" id="page_056"></a>{56}</span> some photographs of all the murals in the Exposition, and shall -study them when we are at home, and we shall send you some pictures with -these letters.</p> - -<p>We are of course not quite sure why we like some things better than -others, but we do like very much the picture entitled “Victorious -Spirit” in the Court of the Palms.</p> - -<p>It has the most beautiful blue in it, and we love blue, though of course -we know that that is not an adequate reason for liking a picture. There -is something fine about being a Victorious Spirit, which we admire, -especially if it is a good spirit, and this one seems to be.</p> - -<p>In the Court of Abundance we saw Mr. Frank Brangwyn’s “Earth,” “Air,” -“Water,” and “Fire.” The “Earth” picture shows in a harvesting scene all -the things which the earth has given to us. In “Fire” we are shown how -fire was first found, and how much more comfortable people were after -that.</p> - -<p>Next, men were learning how to use the fire, and when they had -discovered that cooked food was better than the old way, they needed -pots to cook their food in, and so had to make the pots.</p> - -<p>In the “Water” picture, you will notice that the people are using the -pots now for carrying the water<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_057" id="page_057"></a>{57}</span> to their homes, and the clouds show you -by their heavy grayness that it will soon rain.</p> - -<p>The “Air” picture shows that the storm has come, and the children are -hurrying home to shelter. We did enjoy these pictures so much, and we -wish that all pictures were as easy to read and as interesting as these. -It is a bit hard to understand that there has ever been a time when -people did not have fire and such things, but father says we should not -say such things when we are in the Fifth Grade.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_058" id="page_058"></a>{58}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="WHAT_WE_DID_IN_ITALY" id="WHAT_WE_DID_IN_ITALY"></a>WHAT WE DID IN ITALY</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">F</span><b>ATHER</b> said today that it was time to improve our minds by some foreign -travel. So we stepped into our imaginary aeroplane and flew right over.</p> - -<p>Italy’s palace is very stately with great high ceilings and elaborate -entrances. It represents both Mediaeval and Renaissance styles of -architecture.</p> - -<p>A very nice Italian gentleman showed us over the palace and explained -the things to us as well as he could without knowing our language, and -of course we knew nothing of his. We shall study languages, and we like -Italian. It sounds so polite!</p> - -<p>If Christopher Columbus could come to the Fair, he would find himself on -a pedestal in the throne room, along with his king and queen. Dante also -is there, and stern-looking Garibaldi, and Alexander Volte, who -discovered how to apply electric energy, and many other famous Italian -persons.</p> - -<p>In another part of the palace wonderful laces were<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_059" id="page_059"></a>{59}</span> displayed, and some -carved corals which we know would have pleased mama.</p> - -<p>In one case were some old velvet cloaks, which we have seen worn by -pirates and buccaneers in our story books—those who wear big droopy -hats with big plumes on them,—you remember?</p> - -<p>There are copies of famous painters, among them several by Titian, who -always painted red-haired people, and isn’t it funny how one thing you -hear fits in with something you have heard! We know now why big sister -is called Titian-haired.</p> - -<p>Michael Angelo’s “Virgin” we shall always remember, the face was so pale -and pure looking, and so young, though she has been made so long. There -were some carved alabaster vases, real ones, though almost everything is -copied, and some modern paintings which my nice gentleman did not care -about. He liked the old masters, he said. There were some musical -instruments which had been dug up from Pompeii, just green with age. -Nobody knows what their names are.</p> - -<p>Some copies of Lucca della Robbia were very beautiful, especially an -altar piece of Virgin and Child.</p> - -<p>The furniture is beautiful, and is all in keeping<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_060" id="page_060"></a>{60}</span> with the big rooms -and high ceilings. They use fireplaces mostly in Italy, but have modern -heating now. Our nice gentleman said that Italy is a good deal like -California, “only little bit nicer.”</p> - -<p>We enjoyed our Italian trip, and shall always remember it.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_061" id="page_061"></a>{61}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="OUR_VISIT_IN_TEHUAN-TEPEC" id="OUR_VISIT_IN_TEHUAN-TEPEC"></a>OUR VISIT IN TEHUAN-TEPEC</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">M</span><b>EXICO</b>, who is our near neighbor—she lives just across the Rio Grande -River from us,—has always before this time sent a good representation -to Madame World’s fairs.</p> - -<p>But this year she could not arrange to leave home, and some of her -children were much disappointed, just as one would naturally expect, -when they had their minds all made up to come. We can quite understand -it.</p> - -<p>So one little village said, “Oh, Mother Mexico, please let us go to our -Cousin America’s party?”</p> - -<p>Mothers always enjoy making their children happy, we are glad to have -observed, so Senora Mexico told the little village if it would be good -and keep its face and hands clean, and not ask for more than one helping -of cake and ice-cream that it might go to the party. So it came, and one -evening we<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_062" id="page_062"></a>{62}</span> went up to call. It lives on a very noisy street called “The -Zone,” but after we were inside the gates we did not even hear the -noise.</p> - -<p>It is quite the quaintest little village we have ever been in. They have -a dear little theatre, not a movie, but a real play theatre, which -pleased us because we like regular plays much better than pictures. It -seems more like really doing things, and we miss the voices so much in a -movie.</p> - -<p>They gave a play for us, in their own language, and it was very funny. -We did not, of course, understand the words, but they laughed so much at -it that we knew.</p> - -<p>After the play we went to supper, which was cooked on a ’dobe stove, and -served in a real kitchen in a real hacienda.</p> - -<p>There is a real river of real water running through the village, and on -it is a tiny barge full of green vegetables, showing how the gardener -takes his produce to market. There were two big catfish in the river. We -stood on the puente, which is Mexican for “bridge,” and watched the good -ship Anita as it steamed into the harbor. We feared the catfish would -capsize it.</p> - -<p>Some of the people of the village have brought<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_063" id="page_063"></a>{63}</span> along their work, and we -were much interested in the basket-making, and the weaving of the -brilliant colored serapes, which the people wear instead of coats.</p> - -<p>A Mexican grandmother gave us each a dear little vase of red pottery, -and a feather picture of a blue jay. We hoped the picture was not made -of a real blue jay’s feathers, because we are fond of him.</p> - -<p>We found the village interesting. They bade us adios, and asked us to -come again. Thank you, Mexico, we shall.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_064" id="page_064"></a>{64}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="OUR_VISIT_TO_JAPAN" id="OUR_VISIT_TO_JAPAN"></a> -<img src="images/p064.png" width="500" height="125" alt="Our Visit To Japan." title="" /> -</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">W</span><b>E DO</b> not know where we have been more beautifully entertained than we -were in Japan. A lovely little Japanese maiden with an embroidered robe -told us a good many interesting things. One of them was about “Boy Day.”</p> - -<p>It seems that in Japan all the boys have one birthday, that is, May -fifth is set aside for a universal boys’ birthday. They have then a -celebration, all over the nation, and it is what with us would be a bank -holiday like Thanksgiving, or Decoration Day.</p> - -<p>The carp is chosen for the emblem, because he is the Samurai, or warrior -fish, because he is so full of courage, and figures of him are made of -crepe and floated from bamboo poles, along with their flag.</p> - -<p>On that day the boys are instructed in the standards of manhood as they -are expected to live, and shown their ancestors’ great deeds as recorded -in the family records.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_065" id="page_065"></a>{65}</span></p> - -<p>We think we should not exactly care about a wholesale birthday, but the -maiden said that the girls also have one, which is March third. A doll -made like the small girl child is presented to her, and she is supposed -to keep it until she grows up, so that her children may have it. -Japanese people care a very great deal about their ancestors, and we -suppose they feel about them as we do about our great-grandfathers who -fought with George Washington.</p> - -<p>We had Ceremonial Tea, in a lovely tea-garden, which was very beautiful, -but of course we are not allowed to drink tea, but the cakes were -interesting, and father said that budding authoresses should always -absorb local color.</p> - -<p>We think that we did that because we studied the flowers and shrubs very -intently, and while father talked with the artist who was making lovely -postal cards by painting scenes from the gardens we went out and traced -to its source the laughing brook which was rushing through the grounds. -It did not spoil it a bit for us to discover that the brook came from a -water pipe sunk in the ground, because we understand of course that the -gardens did not grow there of their own accord.</p> - -<p>The Japanese people love beauty and always<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_066" id="page_066"></a>{66}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/p065.png" width="419" height="570" alt="A lovely little Japanese maiden with an embroidered robe -told us a good many interesting things." title="" /> -<br /> -<span class="caption">A lovely little Japanese maiden with an embroidered robe -told us a good many interesting things.</span> -</div> - -<p class="nind">create it wherever they may be living, and their gardens at the Fair are -very wonderful. They have a dwarf evergreen tree which is said to be -over one thousand years old. It is about as large as our Christmas tree -is when we have a large one for both families.</p> - -<p>In Japan, the silk culture occupies an important place. We saw some -exhibits of it, and it seems to us that if we did not care so much about -our native land that we might like to go and raise silkworms in Japan.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/courtoftheages_lg.jpg"> -<img src="images/courtoftheages_sml.jpg" width="500" height="320" alt="Section Court of the Ages, showing Tower of Jewels and -Arch of the Rising Sun in distance. The Fountain of Earth in the -foreground." /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">Section Court of the Ages, showing Tower of Jewels and -Arch of the Rising Sun in distance. The Fountain of Earth in the -foreground.</span> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_067" id="page_067"></a>{67}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="CANADA_THE_BEAUTIFUL" id="CANADA_THE_BEAUTIFUL"></a>CANADA THE BEAUTIFUL</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">C</span><b>ANADA</b>, who is our very nearest neighbor on the North, has built a -mansion at the Fair, which seems to us the very most beautiful of all.</p> - -<p>The pictures shown give one a perfectly correct idea of the country, and -what it produces, and can produce in the future.</p> - -<p>As we entered we were asked by a polite attendant to “keep to the left, -please,” which rather surprised us until we remembered that in England -and all colonies belonging to her all traffic passes from left to right, -and not the opposite, as with us.</p> - -<p>The pictures of the forests and the birds and animals which live in them -kept us a long while, and we were never tired of looking at them. We -were glad that father brought us, because we could look as long as we -liked, instead of hurrying through as so many children are obliged to -do.</p> - -<p>The pictures are made by placing real animals or<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_068" id="page_068"></a>{68}</span> other objects in the -foreground, and painting a back drop continuation of the scene, in the -manner of a stage drop in a theatre.</p> - -<p>One beautiful scene represents a farmhouse with cattle grazing in the -distance, and green gardens and fruit trees around the house. It is -meant to show what a farmer can do in five years of work on a new piece -of ground.</p> - -<p>Another picture shows the rolling prairies with fields of ripe, yellow -wheat, with snow-capped mountains in the far distance, and still another -takes one to the extreme north of Canada, and shows how the Aurora -Borealis lights up the world during the time of the midnight sun.</p> - -<p>There is also a wonderful apple-harvesting scene, where real apples are -used in the foreground, and in the background men on ladders are -gathering the apples from the trees.</p> - -<p>Canada has also immense mines of iron, coal, gold and silver, as well as -great quarries of marble, asbestos and copper, and many other minerals.</p> - -<p>The decorations in the main building are made from seeds, and you would -be surprised, we are sure, to see the pictures which can be produced -with the natural seeds and grasses.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_069" id="page_069"></a>{69}</span></p> - -<p>We liked Canada very much and brought away some new ideas.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_070" id="page_070"></a>{70}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="OUR_CHINESE_VISIT" id="OUR_CHINESE_VISIT"></a>OUR CHINESE VISIT</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">W</span><b>E WENT</b> one day to the Chinese pavilions, and wandered around there to -our hearts’ content. It was so fascinating that we could hardly come -away. The embroideries are wonderful, especially the scenes and birds, -and we had no ambition to try to do them. The carved teakwood furniture -is lovely, especially that combined with porcelain. Unless one could -travel to China they could never see such treasures as are here -displayed.</p> - -<p>A very polite little Chinese gentleman noticed that we were interested -in an old coin collection, and explained to us that “these ancient cash -were unearthed by a farmer while plowing near Canton.” The coins bear -dates all the way from 618 B. C. to 1265 A. D. We decided that we would -keep our “cash” in a different sort of bank.</p> - -<p>The polite gentleman told us something about the dwarf trees which are -used for decorative purposes,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_071" id="page_071"></a>{71}</span> and showed us an elm tree which was over -a hundred years old, and is only three feet in height, and is growing, -or, as we said we thought, just living, in a flower-pot. The Chinese -dragon on the flower-pot would have scared us so that we never could -grow any more if we had to live with it, and perhaps that is what -happened to the tree.</p> - -<p>The gentleman was feeling very sad over the loss of some similar trees -which had been ruined by the voyage from China, by the carelessness of -some one who took care of them, in watering them with sea water. We took -note of the fact that salt water will kill trees and plants.</p> - -<p>There were some reproductions of ancient temples and shrines, and a -queer picture made of postage stamps of all nations, and we had a lot of -fun finding our own stamps. It has a picture of George Washington, and -as far as we can remember it was the third one from the end, starting at -the right.</p> - -<p>After we had seen all the pictures in the pavilion, and all the other -treasures, we went to the tea-house to have lunch.</p> - -<p>Dear little almond-eyed Chinese girls waited on us, and surprised us by -speaking excellent English. We were a little disappointed that they wore -American<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_072" id="page_072"></a>{72}</span>-made shoes with their pretty native costumes, but father said, -“Why not? They are going to be American girls now. That is why Madame -World was anxious to have the Canal.”</p> - -<p>We are glad we brought father, he always remembers what we do not want -to forget.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/p072.png" width="175" height="276" alt="" title="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_073" id="page_073"></a>{73}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="MORE_FOREIGN_TRAVEL" id="MORE_FOREIGN_TRAVEL"></a>MORE FOREIGN TRAVEL</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">I</span><b>F THERE</b> is one place that we do adore it is Hawaii. We have been there -so many times since we came to the Fair, that now when we stop to look -at the gorgeous fishes they seem to show signs of recognition.</p> - -<p>We spent a very pleasant hour in the motion picture theatre in Hawaii, -and got a very good idea of the country. We have resolved that we shall -go there the very first trip we take really abroad.</p> - -<p>The day before our last at the Fair we stopped in Hawaii to get a glass -of pineapple juice, and to listen to the singing. The choir sang -“Aloha,” the Hawaiian song of farewell which ex-Queen Liliuokalani -wrote, and it made us feel a sort of sad happiness.</p> - -<p>So, to get cheered up we went over to Holland, and looked at the -beautiful picture of the land of Queen Wilhelmina, whom every one loves.</p> - -<p>Holland’s mansion is tastefully decorated in blue<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_074" id="page_074"></a>{74}</span> and brown, and looks -very inviting. Java, one of Holland’s colonies, has some interesting -colored prints called Battik cloth, which are made by covering the -surface of the cotton with clay, or wax, and then cracking the covering -so that the dye stuffs may penetrate to the cloth.</p> - -<p>In Norway there was no one at home except some singers who were giving a -concert, which we enjoyed. Their things had not yet been unpacked.</p> - -<p>Australia was at home and showed us her treasures. We liked her birds -and brilliant butterflies, but father was more interested in her -articles of commerce, such as woods, wools and fruits.</p> - -<p>It is hard to remember that these countries are really so far away from -our own country, it is so easy to get to them in the Fair.</p> - -<p>New Zealand showed us some motion pictures of interesting water sports, -and how they catch the big kingfishes; we saw, also, some mounted -specimens of the kiwi, the wingless bird of New Zealand. It has -absolutely no wings, and is about the size of a guinea hen.</p> - -<p>From there we went over to Siam for a few minutes, to see their lovely -lacquered wood, and other treasures, and then went to Turkey to admire -the<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_075" id="page_075"></a>{75}</span> rugs and Benares brasses. We are sorry that so many of the -countries which we are anxious to see have not as yet arrived, but we -must hope to come back to the Fair before it closes.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p>P. S.—Have you ever noticed how sad it is to do things for the last -time?<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_076" id="page_076"></a>{76}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="OUR_DAY_IN_SWEDEN" id="OUR_DAY_IN_SWEDEN"></a>OUR DAY IN SWEDEN</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">W</span><b>E HAVE</b> always wanted to see how skis are really worn, and we were very -glad to go to Sweden and see them. The Swedish mansion is directly -across from the Canadian building, so our foreign travel is being made -very easy for us.</p> - -<p>We went into a blue room, after we had seen all the ships, and steel -things, and the beet sugar cones, which made your mouth water just to -look at them.</p> - -<p>The walls of the blue room are covered with a cloth made from wool, and -colored blue, the very bluest blue you could imagine. Then we saw the -nice deep hand-painted chests which we thought would be perfectly -fascinating to have in our attic, to put all our brocaded satin dresses -in, so that our children could dress up in them as we do in our -grandmother’s things. There are old-fashioned wool rugs made with a hook -which pulls wool through a<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_077" id="page_077"></a>{77}</span> foundation. We have seen Tillie Nelson’s -mater make them in Minnesota.</p> - -<p>Their furniture is black oak, with wool tapestry for covering, and there -are some beautiful bookcases, and hand-carved book-ends, and some -beautiful book-bindings.</p> - -<p>We looked a long time at the wonderful pictures of snowstorms painted by -A. Schultzberg, 1914. We both like them better than any paintings we -have ever seen. We almost expected to see little Mrs. Cottontail hop out -from under the snow-laden spruce trees, or to hear a chickadee bird sing -his winter song from one of the branches. We have resolved to study art. -A beautiful statue, carved by Alice Nordin, entitled “The Goddess of -Love,” is in that room, and seemed to us very beautiful.</p> - -<p>There were some bronze chandeliers which we know would interest big -brother, they were what he calls decorative, and some china which sister -would rave over.</p> - -<p>We came away feeling that Sweden is a very large and useful nation, and -a homey and comfortable sort of people. We said so to father, but he -said, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page_078" id="page_078"></a>{78}</span>“Yes, yes, children, I am glad you felt that, because they are -that and more.”</p> - -<p>We knew by his tone that he was thinking, so we were careful not to -chatter and disturb him.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/p078.png" width="149" height="275" alt="" title="" /> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_079" id="page_079"></a>{79}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="THE_FIREWORKS_AND_ILLUMINATIONS" id="THE_FIREWORKS_AND_ILLUMINATIONS"></a> -<img src="images/p079.png" width="500" height="121" alt="The Fireworks and Illuminations" title="" /> -</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">F</span><b>AIRY-LAND</b> was never more beautiful than the Fair is when the lights are -on in the evening, with all the big searchlights and the colored lights -going at once. Then the Tower looks like the queen that it is, with its -thousands of sparkling jewels. There is something majestic and silently -mystical about it, as it stands with its head among the stars. There has -never been anything like it, and there will never be anything like it, -and while, like other great things, it may have faults, it will live -forever in the hearts of the little children who have seen it.</p> - -<p>Once in a while, as a special treat, Madame World has an evening of -fireworks, in addition to the illuminations which she provides for her -guests every evening. We went out late one afternoon, and stayed out for -them.</p> - -<p>Out on the Marina, or water-front, there is a big<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_080" id="page_080"></a>{80}</span> machine which -controls the searchlights, and from there the whole Fair is illuminated.</p> - -<p>When the lights are turned on, and stream far up in the sky, it looks as -though the Goddess of Light and all her subjects were holding high -carnival in the heavens. Sometimes the lights are all colors of the -rainbow, and when they are turned on Golden Gate it looks as though all -the color sprites from the coral caves were sailing in from tropical -seas to dance at the carnival.</p> - -<p>A most beautiful color effect was arrived at by puffing great white -clouds of steam from engines, and turning on them the colored -searchlights.</p> - -<p>The fireworks were, however, the crowning surprise. First they were the -ordinary Fourth of July kind, just skyrockets, which, bursting with a -loud report, fling stars and bouquets of flowers in the air.</p> - -<p>We liked them very much, as all children like fireworks, and were quite -satisfied that we were having a lovely time, when Boom! a big rocket -exploded, sending balls of fire high up in the air, and do you know, out -flew Old Mother Hubbard and her dog Tray, Mary and her little lamb, -Little Boy Blue and his flock of sheep, the old woman who went up in a -basket, the pig which flew so high, and the cow<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_081" id="page_081"></a>{81}</span> which jumped over the -moon, not to mention a ballet dancer, and whole flocks of geese, and -strings of flags, all the old story-book folks, not little things which -you would have to guess about, but real large-as-life characters whom -you would at once recognize. Now if some one will explain to us how they -could pack them all into a skyrocket, we shall be satisfied.</p> - -<p>To complete the entertainment, the aviator then went up in his aeroplane -and gave an imitation of a comet tearing through space.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_082" id="page_082"></a>{82}</span></p> - -<h2><a name="THE_PANAMA_CANAL_CONCESSION" id="THE_PANAMA_CANAL_CONCESSION"></a>THE PANAMA CANAL CONCESSION</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">I</span><b>N SPITE</b> of the fact that it may be called advertising, which, father -says, we are not being paid to do, we wish very much to tell you about -the Panama Canal representation which we saw at the Fair.</p> - -<p>It is far and away the most educational and interesting thing at the -Fair, and helped us to understand really why Madame World was so anxious -to have the Canal cut, and why there is so much rejoicing over it.</p> - -<p>They have a moving platform with chairs upon which we were seated, and -given a telephone, through which we heard the lecture, and as the -platform moved around the circle, carrying us from the Pacific to the -Atlantic, we were informed as to each step in the great work of making -the Canal, and shown exactly how it is now operated.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_083" id="page_083"></a>{83}</span></p> - -<p>Of course we had to keep constantly in mind that if we were really to -travel over the country which we were being shown that we could by no -means do it in the twenty-three minutes which are used in seeing the -show. But it gives a really correct idea of the country, and the work -which has been and is being done, how the locks are opened and closed, -and how the ships go through the locks, the location of the lighthouses, -and of the various rivers and mountains, also how the cities are placed, -and what cities are now submerged.</p> - -<p>We had always wondered how it was possible for a ship to go higher than -the level of the ocean, and no amount of explanation which father could -give us was able to make it clear to us. But the actual passing through -of the tiny vessel showed us at once. Whenever a vessel has gone through -the Canal the fact is communicated to the world by the wireless which is -stationed at each Canal entrance.</p> - -<p>We are very glad that we saw the real working, splendid Canal spread out -before us, and only wish that you might also have seen it.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_084" id="page_084"></a>{84}</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<a href="images/joyzone_lg.jpg"> -<img src="images/joyzone_sml.jpg" width="500" height="323" alt="Western Section of the “Joy Zone.”" /></a> -<br /> -<span class="caption">Western Section of the “Joy Zone.”</span> -</div> - -<h2><a name="OUR_DAY_ON_THE_ZONE" id="OUR_DAY_ON_THE_ZONE"></a>OUR DAY ON THE ZONE</h2> - -<p class="nindc">DEAR COUSINS:</p> - -<p class="nind"><span class="letra">F</span><b>ATHER</b> said that on our last day at the Fair we might be as frivolous as -we pleased. So we went in at the Van Ness Avenue entrance, and did -everything we wanted to do. Father did not seem a bit bored, though we -had been afraid that he would.</p> - -<p>We went to Toyland, and saw the circus, and the dog show, and the funny -little men and women, who are really grown up although they are scarcely -bigger than little brother, who is only five. There was one little -father and mother there with a baby nearly as big as they were.</p> - -<p>Then we went over to Japan Beautiful, and it is indeed beautiful, and we -stayed a long time, buying gifts for all of you. It looked like -fairyland with all the red lanterns and pretty flags flying. It was -Queen Day. The queen’s chariot was a big bird, like a swan, only more -beautiful.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_085" id="page_085"></a>{85}</span></p> - -<p>Then we zigzagged across again and did things on the other side of the -Zone, like going up in the funny thing which gives you a ride in the -air, so you can see all the Fair at once. Then we stopped a few minutes -in Old Mexico, but we had been there before, you know, so we came out -and went to see the little babies in the incubators. They are very -sweet, but are so little that they cannot live in just beds like other -babies. They should have had “The Blue Bird” to read before they came -and then they would not have been in so much of a hurry, because it -cannot be any fun to be shut up in there.</p> - -<p>We were hungry when we saw the chickens being roasted in front of a -cafe, so we went in and had some lunch, and came out in time to see the -big man walk across the Zone on a wire stretched away above our heads. -We bought some candies, and saw them being made, and father bought us -each a Nova Gem pendant, so we should not forget how the Tower sparkles -in the sun, and then we went down to see the man fly. He writes his name -in the sky, but it does not stay there very long. Father says Fame is -like that.s</p> - -<p>Then we came out and stood and looked back at the Tower, and out under -the arches, out to where<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_086" id="page_086"></a>{86}</span> the bay was shining in the setting sun, and -were glad that we had come. Father asked us what we had liked most. We -couldn’t answer just at first, but after we were outside we knew. We had -loved it, every bit of it, but the best thing of all was going home to -mother.</p> - -<p class="r"> -<span style="margin-right: 2em;">Your loving cousins,</span><br /> -JANE AND ELLEN.<br /> -</p> - -<div class="figcenter"> -<img src="images/p086.png" width="232" height="237" alt="" title="" /> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of What We Saw At Madame World's Fair, by -Elizabeth Gordon - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT WE SAW AT MADAME WORLD'S FAIR *** - -***** This file should be named 51599-h.htm or 51599-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/5/9/51599/ - -Produced by David Edwards, Chuck Greif and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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