The Newtown bee., 1901-08-02
TOWN TOPICS, GOING TO THE "PAN."

THE MIDWAY IN ALL ITS GLORY.-WHYI
 THEY HAVE THE MIDWAY.-UN- |
 TIGHTEN THE sTRAIN.-IN A PHIL l
 IPPINE HUT.-BABIEs JUST LIKE OUR
 OWN.-''HOW MUCH YOU GIvE?"-I
 THE NUMBERING CAMEL HAS THE
 RIGHT OF WAY.-THE OLD MAN IN
 THE MOON NOT A BACHELOR.-YOUI
 DO NOT HAVE TO GO TO BUFFALO TO
 SEE A HOUSE UPSIDE DOWNFALL
 THE BELLS OF VANITY FAIR.
 Will you take a walk with me through the Midway? You might as we'll, for you don't want to be always on the Qui vive of excitement. "DOing the Exposition is hard work, and it is a good thing to let the tension relax. The Midway was meant for that. Do you know, puzzled my head quite a while to learn why this conglomera- tion of the instructive and the enter taining, the odd and the regular, the grOteSQue and the SOmbre was thrust right into the midst of the glories of the "Pan." It seemed at first thought a little out of place and had the effect of lowering the tone of the tout en- semble; but, being the descendant of Yankee, am sure that is not so, for have gotten down to the root of the 1ldUUCl. DOu yOu oCC UldU Olu SChUlC- man taking a nap at 3 o'clock in the afternoon in the shade of that mas sive pillar? Why, of course, he wants a nap, dear old soul; but he wants something else. He has been hard at it all day since the gates opened in the early morning "doing" the Fair in fine shape, so that when any friend of his for the next five years mentions anything he saw at the "Pan," the old gentleman can remark, "I saw that too." Why don t you whisper in his ear that he needs a stroll on the Midway more than a nap. Daniel Webster used to go from the great affairs of state at Washington up to his home in Massa- chusetts just to look into the honest faces of his oxen. It did him good; it eased up the strain. After you have spent a couple of hours in the Midway, you are ready for the biggest sort of Exposition building to see it from end to end. Let us have all of June that the year can bring us. Let us read the column, "Just for Fun," as we'll as the column, ''Things of the Week." Let us have Midways in our lives as we'll as Smithsonian Institutes. A did not need vacation like the rest of his clerical brethren. 1 heard one of his sermons, and l should say his congregation needed a vacation if he didn't.
 Let us take the Trip to the Moon. It costs 50 cents, but that is pretty cheap to,go so far. The ship Ariel is at our service. We are>on board, and the big wings begin to move. There is lot of lowing and scraping of the crew to the officers, and away we go. \ Up, up, up! The earth recedes from our view; the glimmering lights of in the mist; night comes on, and, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven blossom the beautiful stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. After we have sailed on for many league through upper regions of the sky, the moon draws into sight, just as we have seen it in our school-books, the mountains there, the Old Man and all. We cannot land right in the moon; for the atmosphere is not like the atmosphere of earth, and we have the oxygen of earth. We run up at a convenient landing place just under the moon, and the Old Man himself appears. He is right glad to see us and brings out his sisters, cousins and aunts to introduce them. Oh, no, the Old Man in the Moon isn't an old bachelor. I have always been sorry for the solitary old fellow, but this trip cOnvinces me that there are yet a few things which have to learn. We cannot keep his reverence talking or lowing too long, for just think how many times he will have to go through that same performance before the 31st of October! We come in jiffy back +o <orro frpoo or1 find fhot uyo l,o,,o moved altogether about 12 feet from the place we started! I say i've" all the way through here; but, bless your heart, I didn't take the Trip to the Moon A boy friend of mine did and told me all about it. l set it down here, for I thought THE BEE readers would like for once to get into place where there are no mosquitoes and no Bees.
 We want to call upon our friends the FilipinOs. We had little ''on- pleasantness" with them of late, and we want to see if they are such bad out. We'll, that little baby isn't such a bad fellow even if his Filipino Papa and Mamma haven't the best of repu- tations. I declare he coos and laughs just like an American baby, and makes funny faces, and doubles up his fists: and I should not be bit surprised if he could cry once in while when things get all askew in babydom. These little thatched-roof houses look 1 for all the world like some pictures we have become familiar with of late.
 You must tread lightly as you go up the steps, for each step consists of two slight bamboo rods. There are three small rooms in the cottage. This is l fo ho nf these big old-fashioned New England
 fireplaces would take in the whole
 Filipino home and leave little extra room to call the dooryard. We go
 right into the bedroom. That is not
 very polite, but we cannot make the
 house all over again just to go in in
 the right way. The kitchen does not show any large display of cooking
 utensils. I wonder how they make
 their bread and where the pie and cake
 come in; but tush! we must not think
 of eating everywhere. In the Filipino
 theatre we get a glimpse of real Fili-
 these late followers of Aguinaldo play ing on their mondolins with evident
 relish "Star-Spangled Banner" and
 "Yankee Doodle;;" but they are going
 to become much used to Uncle Sam $
 way of doing things in short while,
 and wonder now they could have en-
 dured Spain so long, that is, if we re-
 tain the Philippines, but politics are
 barred out. That prestidigitateur
 gets lots of flowers out of cornucopia
 that he showed us was empty, and
 that native dance is very graceful and
 pretty. Does a minister dare express
 an opinion about dancing in these days leven when he is not speaking ex-cathe-
 dra? We'll, if all our dancing were as