The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-10
DON'T MISS THAT
!. BLATANT MIDWAY
There Isn't Anything Naughty
So There's No Chance of
Being Shocked.
TAKE you in FOR A DIME
Frankly Amusing and Frankly
TAKE YOU IN FOR A DIME
Frankly Amusing and FRANKLY
Some Fakes, but There's
Fun Along the Way,

1t takes more than prize hogs, fast
horses and crazy work uuilts to make
fair. These make special appeal to-
farmers with families, race track touts
and maiden ladies. but the only fea-
ture OF the whole fair that everybody,
young and old, rich and poor, wise
ana otherwise, goes completely dippy
over is the big blatant Midway once
on this magic crescent OF painted can
vas and strange noises. amidst mon
srtositips and curios garnercd from
many lands. the most staid individual
loses his accustomed aplomb ana
plunges into delicious mysteries prom
ised by leather lunged bankers with
an avidity and abandon possible only
on the gay. sassy white way.
The Midway this year Is larger than
ever. whole mile of IT. say the
press agents. Well. It takes good
number OF shows to I'LL a frontage OF
5.27B feet and there may not be quito
that much Midway. but there Ia
enough. The habitue of State fairs
Will recognize the old stand-bys. They
are there by the score-anclent and
honoruhie in conception and yet per-
ennially new. Some of them really
Instructive and merltorious. others
frankly amusing and funny. and--sad
to rclate-still others which are frank
~ avowediy and brazenly fakes. No
oNHSE Noiu can dtSCTlDe tHcU.
They Don't Cost Much.
But then nobody cares. Even the
fakes cost only nickel and 10 cents,
and IL is worth that much to find out
how easily fool and his rocket
change are parted. One is out TO see
everything there Is to be seen-the
bankers bark. the bands bray the lady
ticket sellers smile seductively. and
you give up your 10 centimes and go
inside II It's worth the money you
tell your friends: ~ you're stuck YOU
shut up and take in the next show,
hoping for better luck.
Only half OF the shows were open
yesterday. but all OF them will be
running full blast to-day Nothing
like IA comprehensive list is here at
tempted. Palm readers and clairvoy-
ants. mostly OF dusky hue. are in evil
dencc on every side. one enterprisins
woman has an automatic machine
which shells out picture of your
affinity and sundry Information about
slot route. a Mysterious Man From
the East stands on n soap box and
incants over piece OF blank paper.
returning II To you with map of
your future existence. a fake2 Maybe.
Very likely. but It's only a nickel. and
It's worth that to hear him meant,
"Bndda- cola booiah subal-ah. etc"
that draw the curtain and hold your
hand. and hold you up for as much
az the traffic will bear.
Princess" Olga is with us for tho
first time-thirty inches tall and
blonde. She admits shyly to being
thirty-one. and IL mot married, but
willing to he, The Little Admiral,
hardly any larger, is across the lana
for tao same price OF admission The
Alabama Blossoms--that perennial
hxture OF the csrnivai-.is present to
gladden. the heart OF the visiting ruDe
with oleaginous coon songs and break
downs, and Baby Victoria is here
600 pounds OF her. measuring around
the arm what the average woman
measures around the waist.
Your Real Mermaid.
You don't believe in mermnids? Get
rid OF II. Here is sure enough one,
captured on the Spanish Main off The
coast OF Brazil. in 1904. OF course, she
Is dead-actually petrihed. Head and
BODY of woman and tail OF fsh.
II you've got suspicion that the
mermaid was framed up in New
York studio. here Is the very Golden
Baboon alive and we'll that was on
the ship that captured her. Look who's
here! Thelma and the little Yankee
Prince-the youngest snake charmcrs
In America. The prince is nineteen, so
they say, and is twenty-one inches tall.
Here's Happy Jack. who has even
Baby Victoria beaten to fade-away.
He weighs 739 pounds, measures 103
around the waist and wears forty
four collar, There's the Trip Around
the World. with gruesomc exhibits of
mummitied Eskimos. and our cid
friend Eugo. tho Wild man from Aug
tralia. who eats snakes for dessert.
But 1t is impossible to name them
all. You can't miss them-the barkers
won't let you. 1t is the greatest Mid
way yet, and nothing on the joy pike
is more than 10 cents.