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wo wish to express ih somo blundering way
our admiration. The art department cer
tainly novor opened with such prospects bo
foro. Miss Parker seems to havo brought
back something from the groat school of
modern French painters, which most artists
who study in Paris do' not.
JAKEY AT THE WORLD'S FAIR.
Ho wont with a rush. Somewhat liko a
fourth of July sky-rocket. A swish without
impetus, a scoot through space, a report, and
golden eagles flying helter-skelter through
the air. Jakey had boon going to go to the
World's Fair for two years running; that was
the swish. Ho wont; that was the scoot.
He got "broke;" that was the report. And
he didn't whine because his paternal sire
wouldn't purchase him a bow wow wow after
ho canio back either.
But Jakey was unlucky in one particular.
Ho had no relatives in the city that is oper
ated by the wind and lightning, not a single
person whom he could rely upon to furnish
him a temporary home. Not a single loving
heart breathed out that warmth of affection
which all Chicago great-aunts and sixteenth
coueins are required to show towards any
relations who may come in from the high
ways. So all the poor fellow could do was
to take his carpet sack in one hand and his
independence in the other and tumble off at
Englewood which was only a five minutes'
ride to the Fair grounds and any way from
one to twelve miles from where he didn't
know whether he wanted to stop or not.
He soon found out that he was five minutes
ride and ten minutes walk and one hour's
inquiring from where he didn't care-if he
ever got at all. But of course ho arrived.
His was a lucky star, and as ho owed the
plaster paris hotel five dollars yet, ho was
unable to miss the place and lose himself.
There are hotels and there are furnished
rooms and then there are confiding friends
who get unwary way-farers to go to neither.
Jakey wont to neither. And law, didn't ho
have a large, warm time in getting to neither.
Emerson's rulo of compensation works out
at tho World's Fair if it over doos. One has a
time with a high altitude and pays for it by
a corresponding depression of energy and
funds. He walks all day and sees tho world's
congress of beauties and goes to sloop on a
mattresss that in a finely printed f older was
onco hair with springs bolow; but alas, owing
to tho ovils of a democratic government, is
no softer than pounded sand. There is
naught in art's bravuras that can work with
such a sell and can readh tho soul's dark,
deep fountains whore tho imprecations dwell
as that melody of nature that constitutes tho
groan of a tired World's Fair visitor who
throws himself for tho first time upon the
conventional ox-hair mattress. But our
friend went expecting such little difficulties.
All tho preparation in tho world, however,
could not prevent him from dreaming of Mor
pheus blowing up a pneumatic mattress which
looked so comfortable and so awfully nine
because so unattainable.
Jakey wont for education, however. His
mind had to be broadened bv contact with'
things elevating and instructive, so he deter
mined to be in Chicago on the fourth of
July. What would 283,000 people do with
themselves if they were assembled in a crowd
and deprived of the bliss of making idiots of
themselves ? One or two fools aro tiresome
company; thousands are interesting. From
six to nine o'clock on the evening of July 4,
1893, there were gathered on the lake front
at Jackson Parka large number of this class.
The beach is paved with rough stone blocks;
on tho edges of these blocks tho multitude
sat and yelled and scored any poor mortal
who desired to stand and stretch his wear.y
shanks. That was education. A few whiz
zes and a number of bangs followed. These
were pyrotechnics, and they didn't got home
till dayljght. What would a person feol like
if he were in an immense crowd and felt
supremely happy and thought he was not
abused and ill treated? Half tho joy of life
comes through being able to be miserable on
occasion, and in company. ,
After another interview with the interior