The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-10-01

to represent treat of bloody deeds
There are Cinderella and Beauty and
the Beast to tell of the rewards which
goodness in the gentler forms may
bring. In Pandora and Blue Beard
is the rebuke OF seeking forbidden
knowledge. No people and no age
are without their legends. The Star
and the Lily is an Indian myth of
mystic meaning. Strange relation
ships in this legendary lore may be
traced, The Wooing of the Maid of
Beauty is known by another name in
the country from which it originated,
Finland There the title is Kalevala.
This legend Of the Firms has found
its way down through the centuries
to suggest the measure of Hiawatha.
To remind this practical, workaday
generation that young, prosaic Amer
lea has its legends, the Yelled
Prophet presents a scene from Rip
Van Wrinkle"
Yelled Prophet Up-to. Date.
Insomuch as all large nations make
use of aeroplanes and submarines, the
Yelled Prophet feels that he can en-
ploy them without being in the least
unneutral. The courier's description
Of float No. follows:
"As BELTS days of the aeroplane
and the submarine, the builder has
designed for the Yelled Prophets
thirty-eighth journey through the
streets of st. Louis combination of
sky wagon and water craft. He has
departed from the massive triumphal
cars of former years. This year the
Grand Oracle and the High Priests
have conveyance equipped for
travel in the air or in the water. The
motive power is no longer the gigan-
tic sea serpent or the ponderous mas
todon. Here are spirited horses that
have wings for use when the COM
mand is to soar aloft and fins when
the trip is by sea. Eagles perch on
the tails of these strange animals. A
silken canopy as airy as a parachute
is the only covering. Dolphins sport
on either side. Stars lock down from
above. Nodding flowers in the midst
of light draperies form the back
ground. Never before has the Yelled
Prophet appeared in such a novel and
artistic conveyance"
bSSSi 'PNiOH VI ILle fIOdL.
The title float, picture of which
illustrates this article, is described by
the courier as follows:
Forecasts OF the wonders to follow
crowd the title float. The roc, that
mighty fowl, which laid eggs that
were fifty PAGES round and which car.
rled humans more safely than a Zen.
pelin or an aeroplane, is poised for
flight Upon its back is seated a young
woman with tablet and pencil to rec
ord the wonders seen. Delighted chill
dren dance around and point upward
to the woman on the roc, in anticiua-
ton OF the legends and myths she
will discover and tell them. In this
day there are those students of child
nature who earnestly advocate that
myths and legends-fairy tales if you
like that description better-should
always be available to the juvenile
mind They argue with force that
strange tales are most valuable text
books. They rank the wonder story
us more important in the early period
of life than the multiplication table,
the grammar and the geography.
Why? Because the myth and the
legend stimulate the imagination and
that is the first step in education. II
this be so, then the Yelled Prophet
has prepared an extraordinary lesson
for young ST. Louis in this pageant
OF 1915. A monster with a sword such
as Hercules might have welded
driven to the hilt in its head sprawls
in death agony. A woman holding
aloft the great star Of hope rides n
Bengal tiger, teaching that brute force
must always yield to beauty. So
much is there to be seen and COM
pretended on this title float that it
viii pass all too quickly"
Route of V. p. Pageant.
The pageant is scheduled to start at
GAS p, m. and finish at 1910 D. m.
The route, as announced by the V. P.
courier, follows:
East from Den on Walnut street to
Twenty-first street, north on Twenty
first street to Market street, west on
Market street to Jefferson avenue.
west on Laclede avenue to Grand ave
nue., north on Grand avenue to Lucas
avenue, east on Lucas avenue to
Compton avenue; south on Compton
avenue to Washington avenue, east on
avenue to Fourth street,
south on Fourth street to Market
street, west on Market street to
Broadway, north on Broadway to
Olive street, west on Olive street to
Jefferson avenue and north on Jeffer-
son avenue TO tho Locust street en-
t.appe tn tha NOiea-Yun