The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-10-08
HOWLING SUCCESS
DAISY FlIZRUGH'S BREEZY GLIMPSE
OF THE MIDWAY.
She Got a Kaleidoscope View of 1t AS 1t
VIII Be Seen Tomorrow Week at the
EIks' Carnival and Street Fair In
Wilmington.
From the Lexington Ky. Dispatch.)


The Midway is a bowling success.
Very bowling indeed. It's the howl
ing that makes the bigness of the sue
cess, and the howlers are the most
successful part Of all.
They are too fascinating for words,
these howlers. bankers, s~pielers-what
You will. Anyhow, these big. brawny
Blue Grass creatures. Elks, I think you
call them-in Immaculate white duck
and black ties. that whoop thing up
to the limit of their lungs, lure the last
red cent III Of your pocket, by the
seduction of their glances.
I'm sure it's sweet to be an Elk.
It's the Elks themselves that make
u own home grown Midway out-Mid-
way all the other Midways that ever
came down the pike"
Chicago, Paris, Buffalo-think of the
Elkless desolation OF their Midways
with only the professional %runner-in to
make things livelyi
Where was the thrill. the subtle mag
netism that a universal Elkiness inn
| parts!
I've just looped all the loops at Coney
Island, shot all the chutes, Tipped all
the flags, run all the rapids, rolled the
Barrel of Love-" steeple-chased,
magic-staired, topsy-turveyed, been
palm-read, tin-typed. ~peanutted, frank
furted, massaged and vaccinated-in-
QulSSu III the WlIueSI OTSy o. QlIle uc-
lights in the world, at Americas most
characteristic fun resort and found it
fiat, stale, Improbable, all.
1t was only yesterday I discovered the
reason why.
Home without a mother, for blank
ness and general insipidity, is not in
it with a Midway without the Elks.
You are made of sterner stuff than /,
young man or oma or old one either,
if you can pass by Little Minnie with
that stalwart knight of the megaphone
e~ntreating you to tarry.
Wont You step up and see Little
Minnie" he tootingly implored, she'd
trumpet. Little Minnie, the best show
on the Midway! The leader say Little
Minnie's all right, and what the leader
says always goes You know" Judge
have you seen Little Minnie" suggests
that other Elk with the soulful orbs.
with wistful eloquence.
Colonel, Little Minnie waits with
in"
Mrs. Johnson, you must not miss
Little Minnie, the Wild Girl
They know the value of the personal
equation, these willy bankers of Lexing-
toms -Four Hundred.
wall right up, ladies and gentle
men, and see the greatest dog and mon
key show on earth-and ali for two
nickles!"
Here are Your trained animals
finest things ever happened"
"Come in and lose yourself, my
friends, in the wonderful bewilderments
of the CRYSTAL Maze"
"Now's your chance to step up and
see the smallest horse on record"
Don't wait, don't wait, get a move
on you. Electra, the flying lady, is now
suspended in the air."
Performance now on in the German
Village"
This way to the aunted swing -
step up"
These and a hundred other exhorta-
lions in every grade of ~eloquence
through m~egaphone or viva voce blend
with the bandS and the other hub-bubs
in one Niagaran roa
They are bluffing. clustering and per-
spring for a noble cause in a noble
way, these energetic Elks of ours.
Life isn't all cakes and ale and Ger
man leading with this staunch crew.
Truly, Laughter Lane is the Midway
of the Elks' Fair. Did you ever giggle
so much to the square inch in your
life?
It's our proprietorship in the whole
concern that whets our enjoyment of
the many f~unninesses We own the
fair grounds and we own the ElkS -
that is, a good many of you girls do.
Two little girls stood %wistfully be-
fore a tent where were advertised la
dies without any particular dressing,
French, mayonnaise or otherwise. The
kimonaS were a mere delusion.
That show is too bad for us to go
in, amt it," asked one of the little
maids. laughingly.
You'd enjoy the trained animals
more. I should think" was suggested
diScreetly.
Il don't think they ought to have
ho1 chou-c 1;lya l. - ND =, A. rl,4
child v~irtuously, her eyes glued hum
grily to the Tapping Lanvas. 1 don't
think it's right for people to go in, do
you? We wouldn't go into such a show
as that even-even, if-if-we hadn't lost
our Dimes" Then a sudden duet of
tears.
There's a good deal of human ma
turc in some of us. even babes and
stockings.
Tn lost" cried the prettiest little
~16-year-old in pink muslin that ever
added bonniness to an Elks' Fair. She
stood flushed and c~urly-headed and pal
pitating. quite alone in the middle of
the Crystal Maze. Four hundred times
or four thousand times, which is it
never learned as far as multiplication
her rose colored prcttiness was re-
peated. Four million times the lacy
hip-daps on her hat trembled with anX-
iety and the delicious little pucker on
4lS IoISLSdu lnCIlSu 10 COuSOldClOn.
I thought she was a part of the show
"a property girl, a fairy of the maze
perhaps. as they have at the PAN
American-she was such a trump card.
But there was genuine trouble in her
sweet voice. I'm going to stand stock
still right here" she declared tragically.
until my friends fine me-"
She was CALAMITY rescued before very
long, and by an Elk, too. -
The Elks are such valiant fellows.
The assistance Of weakness in distress
is always their long suit. The Elk and
the pink fairy were tipping cherry cob
bier and orange cider when last seen.
It doesn't make So much difference
about finding ones lost friends after
all.
There is a dear little Turkish baby
just thirty days old, not down on the
bills at all, tina makes a home nest of
the tent where foreign jewelry is sold.
Papa and mama are as proud and
as happy as Punch. "Winona" they've
named it, because it was born at Win
ona, Mimi.
"A good Lexington lady goin' give