Evening star., 1914-11-01

a family resemblance to the Elks' car
nival at Columbus. Ohio. There are the
women in cotton tights who stand in
front Of the circus tent, and Anita. the
smalles4woman in the world. and the
wonder of science. The goose fair Is
the great annual event of Nottingham.
This year .Tottingham closed its
stores as a protest against this tinsel
frivolity when England is engaged in
war. Everywhere one turned one saw
disproving placards. calling upon the
citizenry to keep away from the fair.
They did, too. The man who has the
tent in which 400 pink rats and 40 tor
toiseshell cats go through evolutions
! In enforced amtty was violently pessi-
mistic. He had covered the front Of
his tent with signs announcing that the
greatest show in the world-to wit. his
show-was for sale, or exchange for
anything useful.
What would you consider useful?"
What have you got?' he asked.
darkly.
only luck that saved us from having
cat and rat show sawed OF on US
right there. The Snowman said the war
had ruined his business. There was a
time when people used to pay admis-
sion just to see Intoxicated persons
pass through Mysteries into sobriety.
Nowadays the pot-tossing adventurers
conduct their incursions into reform in
q rat-haunted solitude.
A well known American journalist
who wears spectacles and owns a
stern, bald forehead-registered at q
hotel in Liverpool the other day. The
first thing he saw was a police order
requiring all aliens to register at once.
Germans and Austrians were forbidden
to leave the hotel until the precise mo-
ment Of catching their trains or boat,
and were notified that an attempt to
use the telephone would be followed
by arrest. When the journalist had
signed the hotel register the woman
clerk called him back.
Put down your nationality. please"
said she.
Then he saw that each hotel guest
had noted at the right of his name the
country to which he owes allegiance.
Usually the river Mersey Is SO full Of
shipping that a dory can hardly get
through. Nowadays the great piers are
empty. In the channel lie warships
The few incoming steamers are not
permitted to enter the river except un-
der convoy. By this means they escape
the mines with which that Shiny thor
oughfare is flled. At one Of the great
drydocks is the Aquitania, the newest
of the Cunard line. and one Of the very
finest passenger steamers In the world.
Her nose has been crumpled up like q
paper bag.
What happened to herr" you ask.
AAe 0cout OA TIC AQu1tan1a.
The man you ask looks you over
very carefully. If you pass inspection
he tells you that "the public has not
been informed" He conveys the i'm
preston that there is something trea-
sonable in your curiosity. He admits
that 1t Is evident that she has been in
head-on collision with something. He
tells you she went out laden with coal
for the feet. At the Cunard Offices
they say she did not carry coal.
"They ripped her interior fittings out
with crowbafs," they say at the Cunard
offices. They didn't have time to un-
screw the mahogany veneering from
the walls. although 1t had been de-
signed expressly to facilitate the
speedy transformation Of the Aquitania
into a ship of war. It will cost half q
million dollars to replace
One would think there would 10 q