Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 157, 13 May 1914 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1914

Married Life the Fourth Year

By MABEL HERBERT URNER. "No, I draw the line at the Eiffel Tower." declared Warren vehemently. "You have dragged me around on a rubber-neck wagon, and to most of the tourists haunts ut I will be switched if I go up that tower." Helen looked crestfallen. "I thought everyone went there." "Then we will distinguish ourselves by not going. We hawe only got a few more evenings and we are going

to spend them seeing things worth while. How about the Magic City? Like to go there tonight?" "But I thought you said Friday was the night for that?" Yes, Friday is the big night, but If we sail Saturday, we will not want to be up late. If we go at all, we had better go now." They had just finished their dinner in a rather smart French restaurant on the Boulevard Capucines. A few moments later they were on a bus marked "The Magic City." The day had been close and hot, and now the night air seemed refreshingly cool. Soon they were speeding across the Seine, the dark waters reflecting the lights of the bridge; in long, golden, streaks. Beyond was a great mass of illumination the Magic City. Even from a distance Helen could see outlined by the lights the Ferris wheels and scenic railways which

made it look like Coney Island. As they left the bus and walked up the hill towards the glittering entrance, they could hear the clash of a brass band, mingled with the grinding music of the carousals, and the shrieks of the passengers on the thrilling scenic roads. VERY BEWILDERING. Inside the panorama was bewildering and the crowd gay and noisy. Before each side show stood a 'barker" shouting in French the wonders to be seen within. None of the attractions were over fifty centimes, ten cents. But the marvels of the painted signs that lured one to enter! The astounding freaks, the monstrosities that could be seen behind those c heap enclosures of canvas and board for only a few sous! "Regular old-fashioned side-shows," declared Warren, pausing before a highly colored lithograph of a cow with five legs. "This is the sort of thing that used to travel with Barnum's circus. Just about ten years behind the times over here." "Do you suppose they really have

i five-legged cow?" asked Helen. Warren grinned and poked some chauge in the ticket window, receiving two pink checks which allowed them to go behind the red curtain. In a roped-in enclosure a brindle cow was calmly switching her tail and munching meal from a wooden bucket. At first glance she looked like any other cow. The fifth leg which had been so glaringly conspicuous in the picture was not in evidence. Then Helen saw attached to the left fore-leg a small malformation, with a half formed hoof. It was only a few inches long and very unlike the sturdy limb that the atrist had painted under the cow in a sort of center-table-leg effect. "Well, that is more than I expected," laughed Warren, as they passed out. "That came nearer to being like the picture outside than anything else

we will see.

warthy, thick-set man extolling the marvels of hte show. Warren, who seemed to be in the mood to "take In everything", bought the tickets. But Helen, who hated and feared snakes, entered reluctantly. The whole "show" consisted only of a boarded -In enclosure which held a number of snakes, a tired looking monkey and a monstrous turtle. The only arrangement for viewing the menagerie was to stand around the fence and look over. Suddenly the girl in the pink tights came in from outside, leaped over the boards, and the "performance" began. Gathering up a dozen or more of the snakes, she hung them around her neck. Then she called to the monkey which had been sitting dejectedly on the back of the turtle. He limped

over wearily and submitted to having

ther est of the wriggling snakes wouna around him.

Helen was filled with revulsion for the performance and with pity for the

pathetic little monkey. "Not a very inspiring spectacle,'

agreed Warren. "Come on, let's see

whatis next."

Bevond this was a scenic railway.

where the cars rushed out in the darkness, shot up to dizzy heights and down sickening drops with their load of shrieking passengers. "If we were going to risk our necks on those things, we would take our chances at home," commented Warren,, as they passed on to a glittering carousel revolving dizzily to the monotonous tue of a steam calliope. Instead of the usual prancing horses and camels the steeds of this merry-go-round were all pigs! Great pink pigs with gilded saddles, astride of which were anumber of good-looking

Frenchmen in evening clothes and high silk hats. "That is the French of it," laughed Warren, at Helen's astonishment

"They say on Friday nights the smartest people come here. Everybody wears evening dress and takes in all these whirligigs." They strolled on by several small side shows and stands of tawdy trinkets, candy and popcorn. Even Helen could see that everything shown was of the cheapest and flimsiest construction. "They are afraid to spend money out here, that's what is the matter," denounced Warren. "Any good-sized town at home could put up a better amusement part than this." "That looks interesting." Helen stood on her toes to see through the crowd a sensational picture of a hypnotized girl suspended in mid-air. "Dear, as I have never seen any one hypnotized, I would love to go in

there." As this was a more pretentious show the admission was one franc. Inside were rows of rough board benches and a gaudily painted stage. "Hot and stuffy," grumbled Warren. "And they will not start this show until they get a crowd. Think you want to wait?" "Oh, yes, now that we have come in." Helen was thinking of the two francs admission.

In spite of the loud exortations of

the man outside the crowd straggled in slowly. After a few minutes Warren became impatient.

"Oh, come on, we have got no time

to waste here.

But just then the drumming and

exhorting outside ceased. The "bark

er" came in, went to the piano by the stage and banged out a lively march.

The place was darkened and the cur

tain went up.

Instead of the hypnotist scene thefe

was a group of girls in flesh-colored

tights posing as "living pictures.1

a different grouping "Venus apres le

Bain." "I should say Venus was slightly

bow-legged," was Warren's Irrelevant

comment. When half a dozen other groupings had been shown the curtain was lowered, the banging at the piano ceased, and a tall, thin man in evening dress stepped out to the front of the stage. It waB the hypnotsigt. Helen could not understand his rapid French, but plainly his remarks were to impress his audience wit hthe scene that was to follow. Then he stepped back and the curtain rose. Beside him on the stage stood a girl in a gauzy blue tinselled gown. It was the same girl who had posed in the living pictures as Venus. She smiled and bowed to the audience, then lay down at the back of the stage on a bench draped with blue velvet. The hypnotist stood over her and made mysterious passes with his hands. Slowly very slowly the girl's rigid form seemed to rise from the bench.

The man continued to make the passes until her body was suspended in the air about a foot above the

bench, Then taking a hoop, he dramatically passed it over and around the girl. Through the audience rippled a murmur of amazement. With another impressive bow the hypnotst resumed the passes with his hands and slowly the girl's body sank back to the bench. He snapped his fingers, the girl opened her eyes and sat up. The next moment he led her smiling to the front of the stage, and the curtain fell amid loud applause.

"That WAS wonderful," whispered

Helen, as they made their way out.

"Huh, that trick is as old as the

hills," scoffed Warren.

'But, dear, how could it be a trick?"

She must have been suspended or he couldn't have passed that hoop around her body."

"Oh, she was held up there by sup

ports or wires, all right. I read an expose on that but I forget how it is done."

But Helen was unconvinced. To her

the act had seemed very genuine and

she was loather to believe it merely

It was almost eleven now. The

crowd had thinned out, some of the lights had been turned off, and several of the stands werec losing up.

"Nothing more doing here, com

plained Warren. 'Not in it with Coney Island anyhow. Some enterprising

American ought to come over and

show them how this sort of thing is p

done. If I had the time and the cap

ital I would want nothing better than to start a first class amusement park right here near Paris. I would make a sucess of it too." "Oh, yes, I KNOW you would," murmured Helen admiringly. But if Warren had said he thought of reconstructing the Lourve or reorganizing the French army, Helen would have had the same firm belief in his success.

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