The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1915-09-24
TITLE FLOAT OF THE YELLED PROPHETS 1918 PAGEANT.

Ed PROPHETS 1918 PAGEANT.
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 ae%roplanes 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. l 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 a 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 (.
nave a 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 soa 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 snort
on either side. Stars look 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"
Description Of Title Float.
The title float, a picture of which
illustrates this article, is described bv
the courier as follows:
Forecasts Of the wonders to follou,
crowd the title float. The roe. thar
mighty fowl, Which laid eggs that
we're fifty PAGES round and which car
rted humans more safely than > zen-
pelin or an aeroplane, is poised for
Ihgnt' 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 inward
o the woman On the roc, In anticlna-
ton OF the legends and myths sba
VIII discover and tell them. In iris
day there are those students Of ohild
nature who earnestly advocate that
myths and legends-fairy tales IL Won
like that description better-shonld
always be available to the juvenile
mind. They argue with force that
strange tales are most valuable taxt-
books. They rank the wonder story
as more important In the early Deriod
OF life than the multiplication table
the grammar and the geOgraphv
Whyl Because the myth and the
legend stimulate the Imagination ana
that is the first step in education II
this be so, then the Yelled pronbat
nas prepared an extraordinary lesson
LOT young ST. Louis in this pageant
OF 1915. A monster with a sword sinh
as Hercules might have welded
driven to the hilt in its head sprawls
IN death agony. A woman holding
aloit the great star Of hone rides 4
Bengal tiger, teaching that brute force
must always yield to beauty 60
mucn IS there to be seen and com.
pretended on this title float that n
VIII pass al too quickly"
Route Of v. P. Pageant.
n pageant is scheduled to start at
6,40 p. m. and finish at 1910 D. m.
route, as announced by the v. P.
courier, follows:
East from Den on Walnut street to
IWenty-first street. north on Twenty
trst street to Market street. west on
Market street to Jefferson avenue,
west on Laclede avenue 10 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
washington 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 Je.er
SON avenue to the Locust street en-
trance to the Coliseum.