| Show GERMANYS TRIUMPH AT WORLDS FAIR in every exhibit the fatherland has won a dominating prominence everything artistic thorough and attractive germany at the worlds fair has herself a place of dominating not only baa she as rich and varied collection of exhibits to illustrate her in every department ot human enterprise but she has grouped and displayed cheso with consummate ability and lavish disregard of cost the old time method of having a blang array ot showcases show cases representing the work ot individual firms has been resolutely discarded by the german they have taken h as their true mission to exhibit the industrial of germany the nation and to this patriotic end the merely personal interests of those contributing to the representations have been subordinated the effect Is massive the impression made upon the sightseer instant and all powerful the result a general advertisement for german industries dus tries that after all cannot tail to operate tor the benefit of each individual who has played the unselfish part of submerging self for the glory of the fatherland collectivity Is the secret of germanas germanys Germ anys magnificent triumph at st louis and the lesson is one that will be taken to heart by other nations at any future International exposition in each and every worlds fair palace tho noble pavilions erected by germany as the distinctive setting for her exhibits attract the eye by the boldness of design the elaborate yet always artistic decoration the unity of purpose revealed as the keynote of the display when the threshold Is passed the visitor is further impressed with the evidences everywhere around him that here the brain of a mighty nation has been at work that the task of making a grand and striking picture has not been left for completion piecemeal piece meal by individuals but that the government itself has accepted full responsibility and discharged the duty for all by way of example let us take our stand in the central ball of the ger xa an section in the palace of varied industries we can readily imagine ourselves in the castle of a king the approach roach to the vestibules vesti bules beyond a marble stairway around us rich tapes utes and paintings statuary stained glass costly and artistic furniture in a fjord all the dignified accessories that make us feel we are in some great presence in some right royal home aad so in all truth we are for here ire enshrined the choicest specimens 0 germanas germanys Germ anys artistic handicrafts none can pass through the suites ot magnificent rooms each more wondrously fitted and furnished than the other without realizing the of the german character the strength that turns even the highest art to practical purposes no dwelling place for show this with tables too fragile to lean upon or chairs too ex use the library is a library where a man feels impelled to read or to write the music a place where in the intervals of listening to the harmonies of mendelssohn or beethoven we might conceivably enjoy a romp with the babies on the floor but yet what a revelation of harmonious beauty is each apartment what an achievement of taste and culture is this entire german home nothing in the whole worlds fair has more effectively captured the popular imagination and the court has become one of the cost thronged thron ged attractions but after broad effects have been grasped let attention be turned to the details for those who look lessons stand forth everywhere take this single room for instance the wall decoration of which Is exclusively in wood at first we fancy we are gazing on fine oil paintings landscapes and Bea glimpses of town and river portraits 0 men and women representations of animal life but boon the wondering thought comes upon us that all these works of art are produced by natural coloring and graining of thousands of pieces of inlaid woods scrutinize this one panel A lady in ballroom costume is holding a mirror in her band and arranging her hair the whole picture Is in wood from tie black colled tresses to the sweeping folds of the silken dress it Is perhaps such such comparative ly little things that genius of the german nation Is re all the world already knows about her mammoth engineering shops her mines and her mills but the subtle delicacy of her ar tart be it noted always with borne useful purpose behind it comes somewhat as a elegance and national decadence have been associated ideas in most mens minds from the day 0 ancient greece and rome yet here at st louis germany proves to us that the strong and the powerful nation in her all essential grip of the great basic industries need not lose bold ot lifes daintiest daintie st refinements we have mentioned only one of ger banys dozen courts at the worlds fair but all the others have just the same wealth of interest and of suggestion to make the grand tour to in eject each in detail is a liberal education and then to jbrown the days 0 study visits must bo paid to the pal ace of art and to the german building close by in the former are gathered together germanas germanys Germ anys masterpieces of contemporary painting in aba latter we eee everywhere the touch ot the imperial and in thought if not in act for the rooms are filled with treasures from the emperors homes things ot interest of beauty and of value far beyond estimate then he conception of the german building is itself a gift from the emperor to the worlds fair for it was he who suggested this splendid reproduction of bis own castle of on the sweeping rim at art hill the noble edifice its dull time weathered dome contrasting well with the white palaces and the sculptured colonnade of states that are its neighbors has become one of the most beautiful and distinctive of tho grand central picture of the exposition and when the shadows of night have closed down when myrl ade of electric globes trace the architecture of overy building with triple lines of fire and mirror themselves in the lagoons like sequins ot gold when the cascades glide down in a sea green mass of incandescence and the fountains send up white bouquets of diamond sparkling spray perchance the soft chimes of the german tella steal upon thecae with one of tie old folk songs of the fatherland thus even as we turn our steps tor home and slumber are that germany la with asit the fair |
