People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — New Smells in Chicago. [ARTICLE]

New Smells in Chicago.

When all other senses fail him the visitor to Midway Plaisance may depend upon his sense of smell to inform him what village or building he may be in. There are dozens of smells on the Plaisance—not the ordinary odors we all meet daily, but characteristic smells, vaguely potent in awakening associations and exciting memories. The Chinese theater is redolent of the flowery kingdom and revels in a varied collection of odors from those of teas and spices to those of the queer little handmade articles which lie displayed op the counters. Taken altogether, it is a clean smell, pungently fragrant. Further down in the Turkish quarters there is an odor, pungent in another • way, but equally suggestive of the musky Orient. The rugs and tapestries exhale an odor as of sandalwood long locked from the air and going to decay. Dahomey smells of —Dahomey. There is nothing in the little bark-fenced quarters worth smelling so long as one is exclusive and reserved in his associa tions. The Japanese fragrances art sweet and a delight to the olfactories. Cairo bathes in a number of smells, led in importance by hot, acrid odors of Egyptian cigarettes and the close, dry perfume of exhibits packed in redolent woods. Taken altogether, Cairo's odon are the most suggestive of the torrid east. In front of the North Dakota build ing is an old cart which belonged tc the Hudson Bay company. A card on it calls attention to the fact that it was the only means of travel employed north and west of St Paul previous to 1871