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| SINGHALESE WOMAN - Lady Havelock has the
credit of bringing the World's Columbian Exposition to the favorable
attention of the native woman of Ceylon, and may be associated on the
roll of honor with the Countess of Aberdeen, whose active personal
efforts made the Irish Village of Blarney
Castle a creditable and
instructive ethnological feature of the Fair. It was through the aid
of Lady Havelock that J. J. Grinlinton, member of the Legislative
Council, and Frank Preston, his lietenant, were enabled to make the
extraordinary displays of the Asiatic Island in the Ceylon court, in
the Woman's, in the Manufactures, and in the Agricultural Buildings.
The richly dressed woman before us at the left served Ceylon tea in
the Ceylon room of the Woman's Building. It
was a common thing for
American women to express their astonishment at her ear and nose
ornaments, suposing she could not understand what they were saying,
when she would politely ask them, in perfect English, if they would
like a cup of tea. Her sad expression may be noted - the result of
ages of a religion that teaches self-abnegation in the defiance of
human nature.
BEDOUIN WOMAN - The Arabians furnish all manner of
people, from the robber tribes to the highly civilized, and the
Bedouin woman depicted on the right belongs well up in the latter
class, as may be seen by her jewels. She is the wife of a well-to-do
Syrian, who came with the Wild East entertainment to the World's
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