Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1928 — Page 36

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THIS HAS HAPPENED SALLY FORI), inmate ol a State orphanage, is “farmed out’’ the summer she is 16 to CLEM CARSON, farmer. There she meets DAVID NASH, student and athlete, who is working on the Carson farm for the summer. Carson makes insinuations about David's friendship for Sally and David strikes him. Not knowing whether Carson is dead or not, Sally and David decide to run away. All that night they tramp through fields and unused roads toward the little town of Stanton. At daybreak they cross the railroad track and see a carnival train. Sally instantly spies EDDIE COBB, a former orphanage boy who ran away to join the carnival. The owner of the carnival makes a place for them. NOW GO WITH THE STORY CHAPTER. XIV v “T> IGHT this way, la-dees and XV gen-tle-men! Step right up and see Boffo, the ostrich man, eat glass, nails, toothpicks, lead pipe, or what have y6u! He chews ’em up and swallows ’em like a kid eats candy! Boffo digests anything and everything from horseshoe: to jackknives! Any gentlemen present got a jack-knife for Boffo’s dinner? Come on, folks! Don’t be bashful! Don’t let Boffo go hungry!” The spieler’s voice went on and on, challenging, commanding, exhorting, bullying the gaping crowd of country people who surged after him like sheep. Admission to “The Palace of Wonders,” a tent which housed a score of freaks and fakers, was 25 cents. It still seemed wonderful to Sally that she was there without haring paid admission, that she—she, Sally Ford, runaway ward of the State!—was one of the many attractions which the fanners and villagers had paid their hardearned money to see. Dimly through the crowd came the voice of the barker and ticket seller in his tall, red, scarred box outside the tent! “All right, all right! Here you are! Only a quarter—2s cents—two bits —to see the big show! Performance just started! Step right up! All right, boys, this way! Don’t let your girls call you a piker! Two bits pays for it all! See the half-man-half-woman! See the girl nobody can lift! Try end lift her, boys! Little and pretty as a picture, but heavy as lead! All right, step right in! Don’t crowd! Room for everybody! See Princess Lalla, the harem crystal gazer! Sees all, knows all! See Pitty Sing, the smallest woman in the world—” Incredible! On Saturday just two days ago, she had been peeling apples to make pies for the Carson family. Today she was a member of a carnival troupe, under the protection of Wiinfield Bybee, owner of all thes weird creatures about whom the spieler was chanting. It was too unreal to be true. There had ben twelve solid hours of sleep. Then had come a marvellously satisfying supper in the dining car, or “privilege” car, with Bybee himself introducing her to those astonishing people whom the spieler was now exhibiting to the curious country people. The giant, a Hollander named Jan something-or-other, had bent from vast heights to take her hand; the tiny male midget, a Hawaiian biHed merely as Noko, had gravely asked her, in a tiny piping voice, if she would sew a button on his miniature coat for him; the bearded “lady” was a man, after all, a man with a natural falsetto voice and tiny hands and feet. Boffo, the human ostrich, had disappointed her by being satisfied with a very ordinary diet of corned beef and cabbage. The fat girl, who had confided to Sally that she only weighed 380 pounds, though she was billed at “tipping the scales” at 620, had patiently drank glass after glass of milk, until a gallon had been consumed —all in the interest of keeping her weight up and adding to it. Then Bybee had taken her to his wife, a thin, hatchet-faced shrew of a woman who seemed to suspect everything in petticoats of having designs on her husband, and who, in turn seemed to feel equally sure that every man must envy him the possession of such a wonderful woman as his wife. His deference toward her touched Sally even as it amused her. Mrs. Bybee was too good a business woman, however, to let jealousy interfere with her judgment where the show was concerned. She had demurred a little, then had abruptly agreed to Bybee’s plans for Sally. Hours of sharp-tongued instruction from Mrs. Bybee had resulted in Sally’s being on the platform now, nervously awaiting her turn. The crowd surged nearer to Sally’s platform. The spieler was introducing the giant now, and Jan was rising slowly from his enormous chair, unfolding' his incredible length, standing erect at last, so that his CHURCH RISES IN SEA Low Tide Reveals Ancient Edifice Swallowed Years Ago. Bn United Press WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE, England, March 30.—Hundreds of people rushed to the beach here to witness the spectacle of a church gradually rising out of the sea three miles from shore. The church, a thousand years old, was swallowed up by the waves in 1798. Since then its belfry 'has been seen on several occasions, the last time fifty years ago. An extraordinarily low tide, following the recent heavy storms, revealed the old building thickly coated with seaweed and shells. Attempts to reach the church failed, owing to the soft sands and the incoming tide. A few hours later it was again swallowed up by the flood tide. Hoosiers Fly to Detroit By" Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., March 30. Seven Calumet District business men were passengers on the first long flight of Miss Hammond, first plane put into service by the Betz Air Lines, Inc., of this city, making a trip to Detroit, Mich. Carnival Tonight at Purdne By Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 30. The Purdue! University Reserve Officers Training Corps will present its annual military carnival tonight in t ie university armory. A concert by the Purdue Military Band will open the program. A war play in foyer episodes will be a feature.

head touched and slightly raised the sloping canvas roof of the tern. She wondered, as she gazed pityingly and a little fearfully at Jan, how it felt to be three feet taller than even the tallest of ordinary men and as she wondered she gazed upward into Jan’s face and caught something of an answer to her question. For Jan’s great hollow eyes, set in a skeleton of a face, were the saddest she had ever seen, but patiently sad, as if the little boy soul that hid somewhere in that terribly abnormal body of his had resigned itself to eternal sorrow and loneliness. At the request of the spieler Jan stalked, like a seven-league-boots creature of a fairy tale, up and down the little platform, then, still sad-faced, patient, he folded up his amazing legs and relaxed in his great chair with a sigh. He was silently and indifferently offering postcard pictures of himself for sale when the barker turned toward Sally, cajoling the crowd away from the giant: “And here, la-dees and gen-tle-men, we have the most beautiful girl that ever escaped from a Turkish harem—the Princess Lalla. Right here, folks! Here’s a real treat for you! They may come bigger, but they don’t come prettier. I’ve saved the Princess Lalla for the last because she’s the best. I know all you sheiks will agree with me ” Embarrassed snorts of laughter interrupted him. “That’s right, boys! And if the Princess Lalla don’t show up tonight I’ll know that some goodlooking Stanton boy has eloped with her. “Stand up, Princess Lalla, and let these boys see what a Turkish princess looks like! Don’t crowd now, boys!” Sally slipped from her chair and advanced a pace or two toward the edge of the platform, her knees trembling so she could scarcely walk. It did not seem possible to her that the glamorous, beautiful figure to whom the spieler had made a deep and ironic salaam was Sally Ford. She wondered if all those people staring at her with wide, curious eyes or with envy really believed she was the* Princess Lalla, an escaped member of the harem of the Sultan of Turkey. She made herself see herself as they saw her—a slim, rounded, young-

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girl figure in fantastic purple satin trousers, wrapped close about her legs from knee to ankle with ropes of imitation pearls; a green satin tunic-blouse, sleeveless and embroidered with sequins and edged with gold fringe, half-revealing and half-concealing her delicate young curves; a provocatice lace veil dimming and making mysterious the brilliance of her wide, childish eyes. She wondered if any of the more skeptical would mutter that the golden-olive tint of her face, neck and bare arms had come out of a can of burnt-sienna powder, applied thickly and evenly over a film of cold cream. The mock-jewel-wrapped ropes of her blue-black hair, however, were real, and she felt their beauty as they lay against her slowly rising and falling breast. To her gravely expressed doubts of the authenticity of her Turkish costume, Mrs. Bybee had replied curtly, contemptuously: “My Gawd! Who knows or care whether Turkish dames dress like this? It’s

pretty, ain’t it? Then women may wear turbans and what-nots for all I know, but that black hair of yours ain’t going to be covered up with no towel around your head.” And so, circling her brow and holding the scrap of black lace nose veil in place, was a crudely fashioned but gaudily pretty crown studded with imitation rubies and emeralds and diamonds as big as bird’s eggs. Her feet felt very tiny and strange in red sandals, whose pointed toes turned sharply upward and ended roguishly in fluffy silk pompoms. “I declare, you make a lot better Princess Lalla than Minnie Brooks did,” Mrs. Bybee had commented after outfitting Sally. "She took down with appendicitis in Sioux City and we ain’t had a crystal gazer since—one of the big hits of the show, too.” But the spieler was going on and on, giving her a fearful and wonderful history, endowing her with weird gifts—” . . . Yes, sir, folks, the Princess Lalla sees all, knows allsees all in this magic crystal of hers. She sees past, present and future, and wHI reveal all to any one who cares to step up on this platform and be convinced. Just 25 cents, folks, one lonely little quarter, and you’ll have past, present and future

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