The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-18
IT'S GOING GOOD.
Mfdwinter Exposition Is Prov
ing a Success.
Trained Ponies Are the Popular
Vaudeville Feature.
BRING DOWN HOUSE.
Little Animals Really Do Funny
Things.
Exhibits Proving More Attrac-
tive Than Ever Before.

1t looks as though all Topeka wants
to be amused-that is to Judge from
the crowds at the Kansas Midwinter
exposition. The afternoon attendance
today was larger than on Tuesday, and
packed hall is expected tonight.
Morris trained ponies, the toplincr
of the vaudeville show, puts the onlook
ers into commissions of laughter. Buster
Brown, the horse that dances, and
walks on its hind legs, and Banner and
Madison, the wrestlers. are the fav-
orites.
Henry Gentry used to work for Prof.
Morris, my father said Leon Morris,
the owner of the little ponies, after
the show today. He, was the first man
who had a dog showgon the road.
How do you train the ponies?" was
asked
.'Oh, that is not done by brutality as
some people seem to think-not entire
ly by kindness. If they do wrong I
whip them for it, but 1 have never
whipped an animal in my life until l
was sure he understood fully what I
wanted him to do.
"A pony can learn to perform tricks
fairly well in a month, but to train an
animal as Banner and Madison are
trained it is a matter of years. Madi-
son is the son of Banner, the former
being 16 years of age and the latter "a.
'They don't show their age, do they?
Well, that is because they have been
well taken care of, and the stunts that
they do keep them in good condition
physically.
1--WE go back to Chicago from To-
peka. and next September go again TO
the Hippodrome in London, where we
have been many times before.
John Hedge and have been to
gether for 80 years. I've been around
ponies from the time that I was Or
3 years old.
Saturday will be childrens' day at the
Midwinter and special attention will be
given the children afternoon and ev-
ening.
- machine of e Kansas Voting
Machine company is attracting much
attention at the show. Charles Hull,
the jovial manager. describes the piece
Of mechanism as THE cash register of
politics-the adding machine of cleo
tons" Anyone who sees the machine
can't help but admire the genius
which was required in perfecting the
machine which is built of thousands of
separate pieces and is said to be fraud
and fool proof"
Many of the coupons which appeared
in the State Journal and entitled the
holder to a shirt waist pattern drafted
to her own measure. were presented
today at the booth of the American
College of Dressmaking-
CRISP, choice crackers, delicate,
dainty and delicious" continue to be
passed out at the booth of the Item
Biscuit company near the entrance.
The Uncle Sam Breakfast Food
booth is one of the places before
which the crowd pauses In its restless
march around the building. Then
there is the booth of the Egg-O-See
Cereal company not far away, where
boxes of the products of the company
are given out lavishly. and hard by is
the Atlas Oats company booth, where
are dealt out packages of oats and
small rulers.
Exhibitors which were not included
in the list are c. NJ. Hill. Topeka; Mrs
g. c. Nicely. Topeka; Kansas Voting
Machine company, Topeka; Lukens
Brothers. Topeka, and the Club Mem
Der, Topeka.
| The ladies of the U. c. T., who have
| the Delicatessen booth in charge a
| the Midwinter, are not giving any
samples away, but this morning gave
forty large 1oaves of bread to the
/ Provident association. TO be distributed
among the needy of the city. Every
thing at their booth has been donated
| by wives of the members and mer-
chants of the city and embraces every
thing in home cooking The ladies il
charge are hard workers and are striy-
| ing to make their booth the most sue
tcessful one at the Midwinter.
Right across the aisle from tbs
| Shredded Wheat biscuit plant at tbs
Midwinter exposition is the booth o.
familiar faces-the place to meet ole