Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-12

form of frankie Bailey at its best"
Il observe that most of the freaks are
foreign" said the High Brow.
Brooklyn His Birthplace
IVES, our greatest work of art here was born
in Brooklyn" said the Professor boast
fully: While he is the only freak who could
really go to work. he prefers the picturesque
career. He is the human art gallery, commonly
described as the tattooed man. He has five
hundred and seventy-fve designs on his body,
which won't come off. 1t took seventy days to
tattoo him with electric needles. Art con-
noisseurs like Pierpont Morgan and Andrew
Carnegie have tried to purchase him. but he
is under long contract with the Greatest
Show on Earth, and is beyond price. Stand
up, Mr.. Greenwood, and let the newspaper
gentleman see your pictures"
The High Brow wrote in his notebook,
Brooklyn may well be proud of Mr.. Green
wood, the most perfect work of art known to
science He would make picturesque long
shoreman."
A lady of nondescript age. wearing the short
skirt and high heeled shoes of rakish burlesque
sat inclosed by wire netting.
That" said the Professor, is Princess
Ania the Snake Hvpnotist." and he bowed
low to the charmer within the Enclosure
Is she a real Princess?" asked the High
Brow
I'm her own country she owned a camel
plantation, drove her own elephants, and drank
ambrosia out of an alabaster tea service, and
never lifted a finger for herself. Like all
ladies of regal blood, she developed a fad
Hers was snakes. During an internal war
between her own people and another tribe she
driven from her palatial home and COM
PEELED to earn her living in strange land. SO
far as possible, the management respects her
noble birth. and she travels in private car,
with attendants, Philippians. guards. and snake
grooms. She speaks language so foreign that
even official interpreter cannot converse
with her"
The High Brow patiently listened in silence
and decided that the Princess An1a was beyond
him.
An imp in police captains uniform, with
a gray mustache and stern expression, was
introduced as Major Page of Binghamton
New York. He was only twenty-elght inches
high. but in his cups imagined himself as
strong as the Giant, the Professor said. 1t
was his first season with circus, and he was
enjoying every minute of it.
He has bet on with the Lady Sword
Swallower. who has early English sporting
blood in her veins. that he will put the Iron
the Professor: but his weight is against him
he weighs only forty-eight pounds.
A Frisid Giantess
MISS Rosa Wedstead a beautiful blonde.
AvA only twenty two years old who has grown
to the height of seven feet four. in her native
home in Finland, although Giantess by pro-
fession, the most attractive freak the
High Brow had ever seen. and he said So Her
feet We're small, her hands unusually so; her
figure seemed reasonably perfect her features
had a suggestion of Lillian RUSSELL while her
manners were courteously frigid.
She speaks nothing but Finnish. although
she knows Canadian dime when she sees
one" said the Professor. The Giants wife
is said to be very jealous of her: but she has
that cold Morse blood in her veins that pre-
cludes any semblance of romantic interest in
anything but the price of her photographs,
She is lightning calculator; Until she joined
our Congress of Worlds Freaks, Marie, the
fat lady over there, was the beauty show
When the High Brow addressed a!d.l her she
shrugged her shoulders, with a smile. and
handed him a printed slip which was
written. % am the most beautiful giantess
in the word.-25c."
$50 many people persist in talking to her
that we had to put price on conversation"
said the Professor in explanation.
Reluctantly the High Brow passed on, re-
solved that the educational value of beauti-
full Giantess was her physical beauty.