The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-28

ON HERALD, SUNDAY,
taken; you may not IKE it but it's your
face"
Right upstairs. Get q view of 5000
people. Ii doesn't cost anything 10 go up
or come down"
Have a looki Have a look! See an old
driver resting on his bed OF ease.
Some Star Human MegaphOnes.
These and other resonant cries greets
the visitors They have made ears ache
and pocket-books look as if an elephant
had stepped on them. But great Guns'
What a business tho "barkers" have done
for their lodges. and what would we do
without them?
! While every barker" in the fair has
labored unselhshly for its success, some
men by the very nature Of things have
! bigger voices than others and a mega
( phone Is a 'joy forever" Among those
who have compelled the crowds 10 stop
and listen are Roger O'Donnell. Of Mount
/ Vernon Chapter; James Miller Mcclure,
/ of B. b. French; Harry NJ. McDade, Of
Federal, No. J. and Walter T. Heyer, Of
/ the same lodge. w. l. Kettler, or Pen
talpha, No. %, is a born Snowman, his
! "All SkidoO' echoing through the hall
/ lie a young Niagara. Other members Of
4 the Pentalpha company Of "barkers' are
/ Harry Luckett, J. II. Anderson, J. w.
/ Collins. and Horace Nayl0T
| No doubt every one who has visited the
/ fair has seen the case of shoes donated
/ by Edmonston & Co, of 1894 T street
There are fifty pairs OF shoes in the case
Z and rfrgVtNea for There
are shoes for the baby. there are shoes
! for the young girl. there are shoes for the
/ boy. and shoes for the mother, father
grandmother, and grandfather II is
seldom you see such variety of shoes
together. and the exhibit as it appears
at the Masonic Fair is well worth view
I ing.
When Men CbeerfulIy Buy Coal.
pandemouium producers the BARRIERS"
that Mount Vernon Chapter has Ia front
of the famous 1O-cent museum receive all
the medals They should be given sixty
days at hard rest Their instruments Of
| torture include pair of broken cymbals,
that once served as a thunder crash in a
local theater; a triangle. made to order.
OF mastodonic proportion; bugle, upon
which none Of them can play anything
! but blue notes, and an assortment Of
megaphones, backed by genuine Russian
/ leather lungs. They do a large business
because, or in spite Of. the din they
create.
When a mere man looks down into the
depths Of some fiOwer-faced maids eyes
| as she beseeches him to assist her dis
pose Of ton of coal at a nickel a lump.
what chance does he stand TO get away
with an his loose change intact? That
IS the question pr0pounded by the fair
mana cement before the opening Of the
show. It has siace been answered. and
the answer is, AS much chance as an ele-
plant in a pink shir'w aist has of climb
ing rose bush, OF something equally
{ foolish.
Good for Return Engagement.
Here lies the secret of the source Of a
large percentage Of the wealth garnered
by the twenty-odd booths. The suscept-
bility of man has been played upon 20
the limit. Dainty. fuzzy. beWitching lit
lie bundles Of femininity with guileless
eyes hiding "a temporarily cold, caicuiat-
ing, mercenary brain. have been "A MAIN
stay of this fair, as of an other such en-
teTprises. Before these sirens no man Is
proof. They all can and have been SHARED
into producing some portion of their hard
earned gold. Some do II with great good
humOr. others seem ashamed of their
weakness. but to the average man il is
worth the dime or quarter 20 have one
Of these Circes speak 10 him. and the
Thank you. oh, ever so much" usually
is good for q return engagement.
No special programme has been planned
for the ensuing three nights. It viii be
a gO-as-you-p please affair with the fun
waxing faster and more furious as the
hour Of closing draws nearer Wedncs-
day night viii probably be the biggest In
point of attendance and amount of mon
ey taken ln on the floor. All previous Wis
itOrs who think they have a chance to Sc
cure some Of the valuable prizes offered
by the management viii undoubtedly be
on hand 70 learn who the lucky ones
viii be. The board OF control expects to
be able TO announce most Of the prize-win-
neTs that night, bat il IS likely that they
viii be unable TO do so, and the winners
viii have 20 learn their status by reading
the newspapers the next morning.