Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-06


are limitations We would nate 70
think we were seeing any but the
real thing, because seven OF us had
paid our good money At the door OF
the Royal yesterday afternoon only
to be told that there was no room
except in the gallery, where If you
cannot see so well you can smell bet
ter. Larry says so, and he has been
to sea in a Government transport
Carrie and Stella came along. Jim
Rogers was having an afternoon
ashore from the Vermont. Skeeter
Haines came along, so he said, out
of professional interest, and certainly
nobody minded the remark if he did
MT, for he has been down duck four
times that we know of. Tony Isaurolla
was there from force of habit. He
pays his ten cents and then occupies
one seat and two halves Nobody
speaks to him about ii because he
can't help it, and besides he is SEN
sitive
The professor said that Sadie
could get out of any handouts she
ever got into. He said she had never
been stumped 90 far. Il don't be-
lieye that. / wonder what the dope
is" Larry said right out loud, as If
he was thinking The professor said
that once when Madame Sadie was
the guest of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
they put some Government shackles
on her tender wrists that had bafIled
the ingenuity of strong men. and in
! ten minutes but Larry was
saying like one that knew. that it
she got out of U. s. Navy shackles
1t was his belief that there was a
| frame.np 10 II. Would a com
mittee of gentlemen kindly step up
on the stage and examine the hand
cuffs?" Any gentlemen would do, the
professor said. Jim was starting. and
then suddenly sat down as if he had
remembered something, and Skeet
! laughed. The two that went up were
squab-faoed boy and rough-necR.
TITS a cninch they know sumpin
about UNI Jim whispered to Stella,
but the professor was saying 20 that
the crowd could hear, Il suppose you
two know all a5out handouts, chr"
"Puttum onim" says i'm, Here's a
pair of IT, S. Marine shackles," the
professor goes on; perhaps some
gentleman here has seen shackles
like these before and Jim didn't
have anything more TO say The pair
was handed TO the squab-faced boy
and the professor said: "You handle
them like you was acquainted with
UNI" and the boy was so flustered
he let them drop. "Tnis pair was
loaned for the performance by the
officer outside; forget his name.
Maybe some of you know II. Does
anybody in the audience recognize
these handouts? Eli All, can ten
from the sounds that many does"
Just then the orchestra retched and
Madame Sadie fioated in She wore
"a black silk dress suit like a man in
the minstrels Stella said she had ON
a diamond "Ain't it lovely?7 Mad
anne Sadie stood by the green velvet
curtain that had her name OH it in
silver letters, and the professor talked
some more.
He said how she was the greatest
in her line. which was probably so.
for she didn't make any move to
deny It, He said that probably all
the important Governments of the
world had tried to handcuff her so
that she couldn't get out, but she
was too much for them all. On tl9e
board outside the theater there were
several pairs OF handouts. from chi
nese handouts. used in Handwriting
Cinnamon in China, TO German man
acles, like what they used in the
German army, and ne wouldn't he
exaggerating to say that she was
only from 10 to 20 minutes at the
most getting out OF any Of them. This
was something TO make the Govern
ments feel pretty sick
The two boys put three pairs OF
handouts on her wrists and were
swapping manacles or her ankles, at
which the gallery vahoocd 1.-THE.
but the professor said you're only
iealons because you didn't come up
yourselves. Now" he said, II hold
in my hand a Russian thumb cum.
used on the prisoners in Russia when
they send them 70 Syberia. When
they want to get secrets out of them
they screw this up. and then wait .
minute and screw il up again. and
pretty soon if the prisoner don't tell.
his or her thumb is crushed. very
painful" - "Aw!a could hear
Carrie and Stella Now, If any lady
present win let me puttum onner
and then get them off without help.
] will buy each and every lady in
this house a peach-basket hat" hut
there was no great demand for peach i
basket hats-they're out Of fashion.
hear. You notice when we place
the thumb cum on the madame's
thumbs we thus take away all the
liberty Of her hands But the mad
anne doesn't look a bit worried That
was what got Larry; bnt Jim said II
was all frameyup. you wait.
Next the professor explains how
Sadie didn't so into cabinet to set
out Of these handouts no, indeed.
sets down right bv the footlsls.
and 81 we do is throw a red cloth
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