The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-01-20
TIE WAX WOMAN.



"What was the doctor at your house
for this morning:" asked the grocery
man. SIS your ma sick ,"
No; ma is worth two in the bush.
It's pa that amt well. He is having
trouble with his digestion. You see he
went to the exposition with me as guide,
s and that is enough to ruin any mans di-
gestion. Pa is near-sighted, and he said
he wanted me to go along and show him
things Well, never had so much fun
since pa fell out of the boat. First,
made him jump clean across the aisle,
there where the stuffed tigers are by the
fur place. I told him the keeper was
just csming along with some meat tofeed
the animals, and when they smelled the
meat they Just clawed things. He run
against showcase, and then wanted to
. 60 away. He said he travelled with a
circus when he was young and no one
knew the dangers of fooling around wild
animals better than he did. Well, you
would have died to see pa there by the
furniture place where they have got
beautiful beds and chairs. There was a
blue chair under glass case, and sign
was over It telling people to keep their
hands OF. Pa asked me what the sign
was and told him it said ladies' and gen.
tlemen were requested to sit in the chairs
and try them Pa climbed over the rail-
ing and Was just going to sit down on
the glass showcase over the chair, when
one of the walk-around fellows with DO
lice hats took him by the collar and
yanked him back over the railing, and
was going 10 kick. pas pants Pa was
mad to have his coat collar pulled up
over his head, and have the set OF his
coat spoiled and he was going to sass the
man when I told pa that the man was =
lunatic from the asylum. on exhibition,
and pa wanted to 20 away from there.
lie went up stairs to the place where the
young woman makes pancakes out of
self-raising -four. and puts butter and
sugar on them and gives them away. Pa
said he could eat more pancakes than
any man out of jail, and wanted me to
get him some. / took a couple of pan
cakes, and tore out piece Of the lining
of my coat and put it between the pan
cakes and gave them to pa with paper
around the pancakes. Pa didn't notice
the paper nor the cloth, and it would
have made You laugh to see him chew on
them. told him guessed he didn't
have as good teeth As he used to. and he
said, Never You mind the teeth, and
he kept on till he swallowed the whole
business; but he said he guessed he
didn't want any more, But thought i
should split when pa wanted drink of
water, asked him il he would rather
have mineral water, and he said he
guessed it would take the strongest kind
OF mineral water to wash down them
paneakesi so l took him to where the
lire extlnguishers are and got him to take
the nozzle OF the extiaguisher in his
mouth and ! turned the faucet, don't
'h'Ak he got more than quart OF the
stun from the salaratas machine down
him. but he rarsd right up and said he'd
90 condemned il he believed that water
Was ever intended 10 drink and he ielt
as though he should burst, and Just then
the mar who kicks the big organ struck
UP, and the building shook aud guess
pa thought he had busted, The mos,
fun was when We came along to where
the wax woman is They have got a wax
woman dressed up TO kill and she looks
Just as natural a. II she could breathe
She has q handkerchief in her hand, aud
as we came alongI told pa there was a
lady that seemed TO know him, Pa is on
the mash himself and he looked at her
aud smiled aud said good evening aud
asked me who she was told him it
looked to me like the girl who sings in
the ehoig at our church, and pa said
course il il and he went right in where
she was, and said, pretty good show,
isn't itl' and put out his hand TO shake
hands with her but the womaa Who
tends tbs stand cane along and Thought
pa Was dgupk. and said, 'old gentleman.
| guess Won had battae sat a,,t of here