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

invasion; and on this day all who came
in military uniform were let free into
Earls Court Barely grown boys IN
red coats were numerous in the thrOngs
Of a Saturday half holiday. These
youngsters sided in. Women We're
plenty too, and some young girls en-
tered shyly.
Wait" said a discreet mother to her
daughter, tin 1 come out and tell you
if it's fit for you to See
When the seats for a hundred were
filed. a clumsy imitation of the East
Indian basket trick-in which man
-urls up in the basket and you are
asked to believe he isn't there-Occupled
five minutes. Then, AImalellah. The
Two men of the pipe and tom-tOm re-
newed the couchee noise. An ugly
brown women stumped out, fully rODed,
and for three minutes stamped, turned
around and struck graceless poses.
That was all The show was over. She
shed no clothes. It was a bald fraud.
At the jamestown fair I had seen fell
lows from the Virginia militia tear
down and clean out less fraudulent
sideshow. What would these young
English amateur soldiers do? They went
out ashamed, but UnprOtesting. And
the mother who had left her daughter
outside?
THE hizzy didn't show breast, wrist
or SHIN" said he; .'thrippence! She
don't make good for a ha'penny."
The San Francisco earthquake, the
Noah deluge, a coal mine and several
other things now familiar in the sub
urban resorts of American cities, are
DUPLICATED here; and so are some of
our variations of gravity railways and
sy-turvities; but all is moderated;
and the visitor to COney Island would
scorn to shoot a chute in a boat that
slid only three hundred feet at an angle
of more than twenty degrees and glided
into unagitated water. An6 when
told an Englishman of cur lOOp-the-
loops. with cars descending at great
velocity, and turning upside down in
rounding a vertical circle, his tongue
was politely silent, bat his eyes said:
you are a liar!'
1t is much the same at the third Of
London's spacious amusement places,
the Crystal Palace, where the main
spectacle is the repUlse by England of
invading airships from Germany. Moth
ing here, though, is q fake like the
Filipino SalOme. A maze Of mirrors, in
which you meet yourself at every turn
and get so bewildered that you can't
find your way out, is deemed exciting.
In America it is sOporific. I followed in
a dignitary of the church. He lost
himself in the labyrinth; but the seTeni-
ty OF his poise, his meditative urbanity,
stayed with him. At moments, a bland
smile curved his lips; at others, a puz-
zled wrinkle crossed his brows; but for
half an hour he very sedately zig-zag-
ged. side-stepped and backed up, before
giving up the maze and letting an at
tendant show him the way out On the
ensuing Sunday, the Dean of Canter-
bury's sermon-as I read-"drew an
apt lesson and metaphor as to the devil
Gus and distracting ways Of life, from
a recent experience of his eminence in
a crystal maze
When I write that London amuses it.
self sOberly and Paris gaily, it isn't TO
say that one is all good and sad, while
the other is all bad and glad of it. I
give you facts, not opinions. Therefore
/ note the contrast. Today is Sunday.
Not a stage performance is given. No
sort of public show is open. The re-
sorts that I have described are shut.
Three weeks ago I was in Paris. Every
theater music hall and dance house
was in full operation. In the afternoon
I drove eight miles out to Echgien,
where a vaudeville theatre had along
side a gambling casino, with crowds of
men and women playing baccarat and a
French variation Of roulette at sixty
double tables. Every gamester had paid
two dollars for years membership of
"the club" and few of them looked like
payers of that fee for a single visit;
so they were frequenters of the place,
and relatively of the same classes that,
that Sabbath afternoon in London.
were content with rowing, punting and
picnicking on the Thames-with boobies
70 n701 inc af1-ff.
as a clown or a minstrel cutting UP
capers for coppers.
That same Sunday evening I spent in
Paris Fete de Neuilly, which annually
through July fills two miles of a sub