The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-07-07
MASHED" THE WAX WOMAN.

lcs tnls nornInS!" aske0 the grocery
o lis your ma sick !"
mo, ma is worth two in the bush.
It's pa that amt we'll. He is having
some trouble with his digestion. You
see he went to the exposition with NE
as a guide and that is enough to ruin
any mans digestion. Pa is near-sight
ed. aud said he wanted me to 60 along
and show him thirgs. Well, l never
had so much fun Ance pa tell out of
| the boat. First. l made him jump
| clear across the aisle, there where the
stuffed tigers are, by the fur place. l
told him the keeper was just coming
along with some meat to feed the ami
mails, and when they smelled the meat
they just clawed things. He run
against g show ease. and then wanted
to go away. H. said Ii, Travelled with
a circus when he was young, and no
one knew the danger of fooling around
| wild animals better than he did. Well
you would ofd;ed to see pa there by
the furniture place. where they have
got beautiful beds and chairs. There
was u blue'chair under a glass case,
all velvet, aud Il sign Was over it telling
! people to keep their hands off. Pa ask
I'd me what the sign was, and l told
hin it said ladies and gentlemen are
requested to ST: in the chairs and try
them. Pa climbed over the railing
and was just going to sit down on the
showcase over the chair, when one of
the walk around fellows with police
hats took him by the collar and yanked
him back over the railing, and was
going to kick pas pants. Pa was mad
to have his coat collar pulled up over
his head. and have the seat of his coat
spoiled, and he was going to sa IS the
man., when l told pa that the man was
a lunatic from the asylum that was on
exhibition, and pa wanted to go away
from there. He said he did not know
what they wanted to exhibit lunatics
for. We went up stairs to the pancake
bazaar, where they broil pancakes out Of
self-rising flour and put butter and sn
gar on and give 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 pancakes
and tore oct a piece of the lining of my
coat and put it between the pancakes
and handed them to pa, with a 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. l told him l guessed he didn'.
have as good teeth as he used to, and
he said Never you mind the teeth and
he kept on until he swallowed the
whole business. but he said he guessed
he didn't want any more. But
l should split when pa wanted
a drink of water. l asked him if he
wouldn't rather have mineral water,
and he said he guessed it would take
the strongest kind of mineral water to
wash down them pancakes. so l took
him to where the fire e1:inguishcrs are
and got him to take the nozzle Of the
extinguisher in his mouth, and l turn
ed the faucet. l don't think he got
than u quart of the stuff out of
the saleratus machine down him, but
he rared right up and said he'd be con
Tanned if he believed that water was
ever intended to drink, and he felt as if
he should bust. and just then the man
who kicks the big organ struck up,
and the building shook, and l guess pa
thou ght he had busted. The most fun
vas when we came along to where the
wax woman is. They have got a wax
dressed up to kill, and she looks
iust as natural as if she could breathe.
She has a handkerchief in her hand and
IS we came along l told pa there was a
ady that seemed to know him. Pa is
On the mash hisself, and he looked at
and smiled, and said good evening
md asked. me who she was. I told
lin it looked to me like the girl that
sings in the choir at our church, and pa
said of course it is, aud he wen4ieht in
where she was, and said, Pretty good
how, isn't it, and put out his hand to
shake hands with her, but the woman