Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-10

NT least IL honest occupation and
a which gentleman could assume Yet
~ grateful to Fate, having been set down in
- strange city where soul knew If one
h is obliged TO be penniless IL is better
NyD4&IYHHU Mr. Moe Levy enthusiastic regarding
V&yGt&8Sl his scheme. did confess, show
inventive turn of mind Mr.. Levy raoked
his brain daily for and startling advertising displays
and the macintosh masque certainly kept throng In
front of his huge display window. IL was arranged in
this way: At the OF the window was a square
booth six feet high and nclosed in brown curtains This
divided in the middle with curtain. and in the
part chair In which / could sit to rest myself
between in the front compartment Of the
booth as the animated dummy"
The real dummy a figure Of just my height with
a waxen face which made lifeike and sufficiently
like my be a startling resemblance. Each morning
at half past s, when went to work. made up with
grease paint until the exact counterpart
of the dummy. On the dummy fine brown
mackntosh / wore a black There clock
in the back Of the dummys head which, when
up, made the figure wink and roll its in most
And not regularly, either but with suf
hcen apses between to make the thing seem wonderfully
would display the dummy for a while keeping Of
myself behind the dividing curtain then the front
of the booth would be drawn rolled the dummy
back into the compartment and carefully assumed
its attitude in the front the curtains of which were then
drawn aside again The change took about the length Of
time would have demanded to exchanged the mack
intoshes big sign offered pair of rubber Overshoes
every who during the month guessed which
the man and which was the dummy. And hatter
myself that filled the dummys part most excellently
guesses piled up Moe Levy's safe the old
rubbed hands deghtedy that guessed
that the dummy than vice
never stood in the dummy's place half
hour Il time, and for that stretch could keep
perfectly mpassve expression and sometimes winked
rolled with the precision of cockwOrk once
stood in front with his watch timing these
for the purpose Of discovering,
the movements really mechanical l could hear
watch ticking in vest pocket and rolled
every sixty seconds exactly during the half hour Then
the change and the wheel OF the dummys
mechanism broken off at uneven intervals the dunn
my's eye rolings actually seemed like life than
my The with the watch walked in and wrote
down his guess that the mechanical figure.
interested in daily audience; could not
help that Many of the people passed Moe Levy's
daily 1t seldom that the unhurried
did halt to watch either the dummy Small
boys tried to make me laugh by cutting antics in
Of the window. One youth made believe to throw
cobble through the window at head but had
long since learned to control features Occasionally
a fly buzzing about my head me some trouble and
a possessed strongly that had
| had under my foot spring by which the curtains
dropped instantly would have given
the exhibition of a dummy shouting achoo!
with most human vehemence.
when the month almost completed and /
was wondering my job TO rise from, that
began young standing before the window
sometimes for half an hour at
stretch and several times day He evidently was as