[Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley]@TWC D-Link bookSamantha at the St. Louis Exposition CHAPTER XIII 3/16
The tapestry and crape hangings are embroidered with cherry blossoms, its one picture is a sweet spring landscape.
Low green stools take the place of stuffy chairs and sofas. And there wuz an autumn room, autumn leaves of rich colors wuz woven in the matting and embroidered in the hangings, the screens and walls white with yellow chrysantheums. Then there wuz a gorgeous Japan room with walls of exquisitely carved laquear wood, massive gilt furniture, rich embroidered silk hangings, and the ceiling wuz a beautifully carved flowery heaven with angels flying about amidst the flowers.
This one room cost forty-five thousand dollars. And we see lovely embroidered cloths, porcelain, shrines, urns, cabinets, chairs all wrought in the highest art, silks of every description, and sights and sights of it.
Fans, parasols, lanterns, fireworks of all kinds, mattings, straw goods, cameras, etc., etc. In the mining display is a model of one of their copper mines, and you see they have the largest furnace in the world, and they not only mine on land but under the sea, it beats all how them Japanese do go ahead. There are tall gold and silver bars showing how much they have mined in these metals. Their educational exhibit shows the same wonderful energy and advancement.
There is a compulsory educational law and twenty-two per cent.
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