The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-22

and q long line Of eager small boys allowed
one by or to take q bite at the stuffed
club OF sausage meat without touching
IL With his hands. Like bobbing for
apples ON Halloween. And for q prize.
Then the -reisessen- or roofing In q
rice bowl with hands tied TO see who oan
finish first without getting most Of IL in
his hair. The -kartonelsohalen': that's
plain potato pairing for women to zee who
can pare best and fastest q certain num-
Der Of the tubers. Then pie eating and
egg rolling and women saving wood for
q prize.
They don't take thess games seriously.
A. the Bowery does when II goes up-rivsr
with tho Sullivans At one sullivan
picnic the announcer had to stipulate
before the creased pig race that any guy
found sticking knife into the pig would
oe ruled out. That's the difference. The
PlRttdeutschers roar and below with full
throatsd laughter over their games and
the prize ~ only ire dental.
The games committee had a creased
and shiny pole. at the top circlet of wood
from which dangled baseball mitt,
bat. nickel watch, a pair Of gymnasium
shoes. The COMMITTEES had to spread
out its arms and NOW down too eager
youn gsters who fought TO he first ~ the
chance for tho prizes They were all
plucked IA fifteen minutes. even though
there were that many pairs Of Knockers
mammas saw their condition
Not To forget Prof. Charles Frischer
The professor Ii almost the last scholar
m his In" at this decadent day Of moving
picture shows and cheap melodramAs
yet he ~ "a worthy student OF the spirit Of
drama His Punch and Judy show which
played nearly all afternoon down on the
green beyond the plot where the games
wer. held. exhibited some daring de-
partures from the classic story 81 the
hVsN zh ia haa a htta "A
one Of the departures was an alli gator
Perhaps some older reader acquainted
with the drama as ~ vas IN the golden
age of Booth and McCready can saw that
the ALI gator in Prof Frischers Punch and
Judy show IL not an innovation but a
revival
Next to Prof Frlscher = show was Ernst
Blocker There - no doubt hut that
such Is his name. for he had IL hammered
IN brass tacks on the face 81 his ancient
barrel organ
Ernst - proof Of atavism. although he
may not know ~ He ~ a throw back 20
M" days 81 tho court testers OF the Medi-
cis His face y like that 81 Hugo
-IHomm" qui Rt He laughs silently.
with a thousand little lines Creasing his
nV-~ and his eve corners He HOSTS his
, nose the neat minute a. II he snelt burn
ing kraut factory and snorts through his
nrstr,l- like a horse All the kinder
stand around and hold their sides lust TO
see Ernst make faces
Behind him be has two terrible screens,
one depicting Thank sgiving on a cannihal
island and the other the tragedy OF a man
gone wrong both don" IN primary colors,
with little left to The imagination Of the
critic But these horrtble- have nothIng
| AZ all TO do with Ern=t's line. All he does
~ Ia grimace IN n fanciful manner. then
turn the crank Of his aAthmatic organ and
accompany himself IN some supposedly
comic song Very often the single tune
the organ po~sesses Is nanifestly not an
accompaniment 20 Ernst = song. but that
makes him grim all the more merrily
He reaches out with q long stick and slaps
some man on the rS>ounding derby.
nows at hum terribly. then invites him to
buy a song for five cents
When one buys a song Ernst in vitea the
patron 20 stand by while he grinds the
organ and To sing with him The songs
all seem 70 he com zeal there under that
grizly Cannlbal feast