The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-22

fifty feet, and let down at the other
side. The queen passed ten tuppences
for herself and party to flip and flap.
Imre beat me into the car with AleXan
ORA. The duke and I flipped with young
royalty. It was fiap-fiOp and slap
bang adventure. The sp0kes moved
lige hour hands of rival clocks running
like a Kentucky mule Tace-the winner
to be the one that moved slowest with
out coming to a standstill. And yOur
wrong if you guess that speed was
sacrificed for royal safety.
shall 1 hold my breath till we get
over?" asked a royal grandson.
Then, fearing a break in heirship to
the crown if the ur in should never
catch his breath, L broke my reticence
with a scared: Don't stop breaIhingl"
At Luna Park, in Paris, everything is
higher, sleeper, swifJeT than at our
COney Island. At all the London resorts
they are shorter and slower The Eng
lish take their diversions deliberately.
They dote on cricket and can't bear
baseball. The Princess Victoria,
though, on sliding through the wiggle-
wOggle and landing at the bottom Of
the tube called it too slow; and even
her ride in a boat through the swirl of
the witching waves struck her as too
mild.
Several persons took a tip from the
dukes Difference to the queen and
tagged the party; others Joined in, and
she became herself an exhibit while she
watched her grandchildren race on the
cycles of a steeplechase incline about
one-quarter as long and fast as the
one at COney Island. By this time she
had stiffened into dignity under a
crowds gaze, and after the Princess
Victoria had fired siXpence's dozen
shots at a moving figure of a duck,
without hitting it, the party retreated
from the White City for luncheon in a
! tea house before making a round of the
Imperial International exposition.
X X x
/ Has Buffalo Bills Wild West disap-
| peared from America since it left New
York for a summer tour? If yes, then
1 have found a remnant Of its lost peo-
! pie at Earl's Court one of LOndOn's
/ popular show places. Each year the
diversions there take on new general
name; now they are the Golden West
with an exposition of western United
! States products and interests in the
main buildings, and the red Indians for
| the arenic show-frstly, in "a Colorado
| Indian camp" for y cents extra, and.
/ secondly, in the red mems spectacle"
| at 80 to IS more. 1t is in this illustra-
D
| London spectators take as contempt
raneOus, that I discovered the, possibly.
missing followers of Buffalo Bill They
number, as counted in the entree, only
/ siXty-fOur red Indians, yellow Mexicans
and white cowboys, also including a few
| London supeTs marching as American
soldiers. against the half a thousand
/ that made a brave show in Madison
/ Square Garden.
| The familiar old Wild West program
was adhered to feebly. A tribe of thirty
/ braves, squaws and children make a
camp of two tepees. and gave some
/ spiritless dances. Eight cowboys ana
girls went through a quadrille on horse
! back. Two cowboys busted" two
bTOnchos that "bucked' but mild lit
tie bit. Some poor lasso twirling and
pony racing, two more sparse dances
and an absurdly ineffective representa-
ton of an Indian massacre, occupied an
hour and a half.
It was in the midway, or pike, section
of Earl's Court that 1 got the biggest
moneys worth of my life in a show
Not all the visitors. though, took that
view of it. They wouldn't laugh at a
funny fake costing only 6 cents The
/ Theatre Of the Philippines stood small
/ but gay, for dramatic art i'm our
/ Oriental islands. A placard said that
on its stage. among other performers
the beautiful Almalellah would both
/ ''Overshadow and Outshine all the Sa-
| lone dancers" A Filipino barker in
| bad English eXtOlled Almalellah as her
races marvel of grace and unadorned
| loneliness. A native blower of a pipe
and a beaten of a tom-tom made a
! couchee sort of noise. And the price Of
| admission was only thrippence.
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/ The exhibition Of a British war fleet
/ in the Thames had brought many
/ thousands of English people to London.
including many of the territorial army.
! or militia, Teorganized to repel foreign