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
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Elizabeth Gordon is the founder and owner of Betsy & Claude Baking Company, a mail-order gluten-, dairy-, egg-, soy-, and nut-free bakery. She trained in cake decorating under Toba Garrett at the Institute for Culinary Education. For more information, visit Elizabeth's Web site: www.betsyandclaude.com.
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What We Saw at Madame World's Fair - Elizabeth Gordon
Elizabeth Gordon
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
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4064066169114
Table of Contents
FESTIVAL HALL
THE PALACE OF VARIED INDUSTRIES
THE PALACE OF MACHINERY
THE PALACE OF MINES
THE PALACE OF MANUFACTURES
OUR HOSTESS
THE PALACE OF FINE ARTS
THE PALACE OF EDUCATION
WHAT WE SAW AT THE PALACE OF FOOD PRODUCTS
THE PALACE OF LIBERAL ARTS
THE PALACE OF HORTICULTURE
OUR FIRST LESSON IN SCULPTURE
THE COURT OF THE UNIVERSE
THE COURT OF THE FOUR SEASONS—THE COURT OF FLOWERS
MURAL PAINTINGS
WHAT WE DID IN ITALY
OUR VISIT IN TEHUAN-TEPEC
CANADA THE BEAUTIFUL
OUR CHINESE VISIT
MORE FOREIGN TRAVEL
OUR DAY IN SWEDEN
THE PANAMA CANAL CONCESSION
OUR DAY ON THE ZONE
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.
Night Illumination, Tower of Jewels.Night Illumination, Tower of Jewels.
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