The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-12

az mem 50 II was with Mack. First
people began 10 Midget around then
LIey got 10 giggling. and, finally. a
snOuL OF laughter from the edge OF the
crowd set everybody laughing uproar-
lCusly- Johnny was quick to feed the
flame Picking up a little tin box he
SIG the cover of, revealing a white,
pasIy substance inside. Putting il up
70 MS mouth he ran his tongue up and
Gown the surface several times and
lhen IN a voice that made people start,
he yelled:
II eat it,"
Nothing preceded this remark, but
somehow il hit the crowd in great
shape and everybody laughed louder.
When the meTTiment had subsidized
Johnny took $40 bill, two 81 bills and
q 81 Dill from his pocket and laying
them out on the palm OF his hand. pat
ted them softly number of times
Money he murmured- ''Of what use
IS money 1 mean this kind of money.
Gentlemen, any piece Of paper that you
have in your pocket is worth as much
as these bllls / have in my hand. But
You can't set as much for it. can you?
No, sir, you cant. And whv2 Well
because the government hasn't STAMPED
a few figures and faces on il. making
It medium OF exchange. Money,
money, money, it's what we are an
aftef. 1t doesn't matter whether it's
a 81 bill, SO bill or a Buffalo Bill. we
want 1t and Wen do most anything to
get it,
Now, if any one but a person so gift
ed as Johnny Mack got off this line of
/ talk ne would probably be run out OF
town But even such fat jokes make a
mt when Johnny Mack gets them off
( The crowd always laughs when he talks
about SO bills and Buffalo Bills al
/ though they scarcely know what they
are laughing at themselves
1raE~
Tor about nfJeen minutes Then he gets
a small boy up in his buggy and starts
, Trick He gets as far as putting a
z9-cent piece in the boys mouth and
Jnen goes on on another line leaving
the boy to hold the coin in his mouth
lhdennltely- Mack has huge scrap
DOok- which comes into play Just before
he begins to talk sOaperina. 1t is full
| on all sorts OF old circus and thea trical
programmes and handbills and of
newspaper clippings, in almost all of
winch the name OF Johnny Mack ap-
pears
On the circus bills which Mack al
ways says are forty years old and Ger
fanny look II, Johnny Mack is described
as the famous bald-headed clown -
Inc newspaper clippings are accounts
I or the overwhelmingly funny things the
Dalo-headed clown has said and done
AT one time or another From all &C
/ counts Johnny Mack, the clown. was a
very funny man and not the least at
tractlVe thing about him was the fact
JnaL he hadn't a hair on his head.
Johnny Mack the fakir lets all OF these
| facts soak in his audience and then
/ comes out with the information that he
himself is Johnny Mack, the famous
bald-headed clown Of forty years ago.
/ This rather aWes the crowd There
may be some skeptics present in it but
! that doesn't matter. AS the crowd
Il
the man whose name has been in the
papers so much Johnny points at his
wig.
You see wear a wig" he says
Z Does it conceal a bald head2 1t did
once, gentlemen. but it does no more
Gentlemen, (snaching his wig from his
head and disclosing a good crop Of
black hair, neatly brushed here is the
Johnny Mack Of today. There is the
Johnny Mack of forty years ago (show-
ing newspaper picture of himself alb
sOlutely bald). Now gentlemen" ne
continues, what done it?"
A moment later the secret is out. 1t
was SOaperina. How Johnny Mack came
to discover this famous compound is
told in great detail Johnny says it
viii probably grow Whiskers on a
marble statue. whereat there are shouts
of laughter. Johnny says that it is one
OF the best tooth washes in the world
It IS also toilet soap unequaled by
any preparation on the market. Small
boys are shampOOed by Johnny Mack in
full view of the crowd. The harmless
ness Of the stuff is shown when Johnny
Mack ticks it, and after that the little
tin boxes go like wildfire.
Johnny Mack lives at good hotels
wherever he goes. and pays Hve1ymen
good prices for their buggies. He told
/ a reporter who talked with him that he
was making enough money out of Soap
erina and other things TO send two OF
his boys - college and daughter to
boarding school.
There's a heap more money in il
than in Glowing, and almost as much
fun" he said and there was a time
when 1 thought that clowning was the
only thing in the world for me"
It's hard for Johnny Mack to get
down from his buggy, hguratively
speaking In a personal conversation
he insisted that SOaperina had really
made hair grow on his head. and that
it had cured MIN Of a skin disease, the
result of too much grease paint in his
old circus days.
When the fakirs come in for the win
ter months they enjoy life TO make UP
for their hard work in the summer. All
winter they loaf and, like the trampsi
they are off with the first breath OF
spring. Theirs is a peculiar business,
but evidently not without its fascina-
tons.