The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-11-05
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1heSightsand
the Masses i"

What will the stranger find who
stands around the street corners &?
The merchant cannot have him in
his store; he is in everybody's way.
The busy man, with the cares of
his family, rushes by him. The
stranger does not look good to him.
He has on a hickory shirt and cow
hide boots; he is a roughhead. He
goes into the Penny Arcade. Verify,
that place ought to be pulled and
closed up, says Mr.. Busy Man. Very
well, then. Where will you have
the visiting cowboy or the sturdy
rancher stop. He has contempt
for tenderfoot. billed" shirts
and a collar as stiff as a single
does not appeal to him.
The homesteader has proved ur
on his broad acres. He has sold
his cattle, has some surplus money,
and comes to Spokane for diver
sion. He wants to see the curiosi-
ties. SEARCHED linens are instru-
mentS of torture to him. No use
making dude out of himself. He
does not admire the tenderfoot, but
rather the man with the hoe, who
turns the desert into smiling gar
dens. This amusement resort gives
the man of this type royal wei
come. Fifty cents shows him fifty
sights. He will also get souvenirs
to remind him of his trip to town
when he gets back to his lonely
shack. If he does not put a penny
in any machine he may look at one
picture, which serves as an adver-
tlsement to the whole. He may
linger as long as he likes, listen to
the concert music box free. 1t is a
Wurlitzer at the Amusement Par
Tor at ST. Main avenue, and plays
one national anthem after the other
makes the Greek, Italian, Swede
and Hungarian laborer feel at
home.
An agitation against indecent
shows was recently started, and
the Penny Arcade was attacked.
The same actresses represent the
same pictures on the stage, after
which they are taken and put into
box. You drop penny, turn the
crank and see the whole show that
the actresses play on the stage.
Why not attack the living pictures
on the stage that are here repre-
scented?
| made a visit to the Penny Ar
cade and investigated about one
hundred and fifty miniature picture
shows. 1t took about three hours.
Many of them | had seen before at
the burlesque theaters and at va
riety circuits in New York. THE
Seminary Girls" and GLOW Foxy
Grandpa Was Caught in a Barb
Wire Fence" is an old story that is
a good laugh producer.
There is an elopement scene, with
all the thrills and ladder climbing,
love laughs at locksmiths, and the
end is wedding and forgiveness.
THE Queen of the Ilarem" is a
representation of oriental splendor,
soft cushions, draperies, fine fruit,
Turkish bowl, and oriental trap
pings. A queen of Grecian beauty
is seated among all these fixings.
Her garments are bejeweled and
bespangled. as is customary in the
adornment of feminine beauty in
the sultan's dominion
There is postoffice in which
the young swain may get love
letter for one cent. 1t Is couched
in endearing language and may
serve as a pattern to send back to
his sweetheart across big wheat
fields, where a love letter is often
a crude affair. The young man
eagerly puts the sample in his
pocket to pattern after In the
future
You get your fortune told by
one of the machines for one cent.
My! they tell you the same thing
at the star-gazing institution. or
where they look at the cards or at
tea leaves and charge n dollar. and
here you get your fortune printed
on paper to carry home with you.
No wonder crowd surges around
this machine!
If you have a hankering for a
baritone solo, or a tenor and alto
quartet, you can drop a penny and
hear the various songs. The voices
blend nicely, too. They get the
best singers to make records from
them.
Can you shoot straight? All sorts
of things are there for target.
If you hit the number that they
are on, you get the target. Eit3er
a watch chain. bracelet. POCKET
book, comb, mirror, a lead pencil,
postal card or some minor article;
but you will hit something every
time you shoot, and the article goes
with the number you strike.
There Is even a moral lesson at
the Amusement Parlor. A machine
shows what you will finally come
to. Drop a penny and you see the
head of grim skeleton.
The man with the foreign lam
guage can dwell and feel at home.
He can have his picture taken In
an automobile. What an air OF
this will lend to his visit
10 Spokane, If he sends that back
to his own country. A picture Of
himself in an automobile! How
high he can fly and how he is to
be envied for his prosperity in the
minds of the simple people away
back near the Danube river
A sailor may visit this inland
,ity and have his arm tattrs<ef-a
relic of the barbarous days when
II was nrOnpr to Dnint the faro