The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-11-13

shavotail would have TO use some
thing stronger than his tongue TO get
us over such piles Of dirt when we
had not had our beauty sleep out.
From there YOU can blow into
Chinatown and get lecture on the
use OF opium, and ind out that Won
arc more different kinds Of a nut
than YOU over suspicioncd II you
take to the stun
Then for shot at the ferris
Wheeh Tho engine stalled last
night and couple of =. V. is got
stuck at the top. Oh. boy. Mehby
they wasn't some excitement before
they got down
\ couple Of young gentlemen
wore in one Of the thing a-mutigs
in the Tango wheel They was
swinFtn' so high that If they had
gone much further We shudder to
think what mess would have had
to he cleaned up.
Some guys are born lucky too. We
watched some Eoof so up to tn"
place whore you get six balls for "A
quarter and II one goes in tho
basket you get a kewpie This guy
walked away with three of them.
How do they do it?
Then they was the usual mob ut
the Grays armory, gawkin at tho
actors who were dom their darndest
10 get the laughs and applause. one
Of these nights we are going back
up there and see the show. Some
other goof on the staff Of this paper
went up there and wrote a review
nf IT, but il you know him YOU
would doubt his word Just wait
tin you hear from us, and then you
win get it Straight
The queen OF the outfit Will be
crowned there next Friday night at
10. all things provided Then they
will be the parade Saturday +. VI
dance at the armory every night
tor the last show. until ! o'clocK
in the wee sma' hours. The RaFa-
uoi jam band is whoopin' il up for
them.
Somehow or other we have failed
to say anything about what is dom
| on the side streets, They are fun
| Of booths and whatnots whore
| things are hustlin'. and anything
| can be got nearly that Is to be got
on the main line. One guy has q
| place where there are rows OF
shelves with packs OF cigarettes and
you hit one you get the pack, \
friend Of ours went up the other day
and got three packs of pills, fifteen
cigars and plug OF chewin' to-
hacco for four bits
Then on Eighth street Uncle
Sans war tree with It's various
branches of the army. navy and
marine corps. have war exhibits and
give ont booklets and hot air about
their branch. II you get by one Of
them, one of the other two Is sue
to get you,
They even got merry -Eo-roun !
AZ %inth and Marshall, and the guys
al the John Marshall high school
says as how they ought TO get out an
injunction, cause how can their
pupils study when that darned
| calopn is raggin ON up IN
| Mother Machree Looked Like a
Chicken to Me Down by the
! Fountain Of Youth p
TIM Royal Italian hand whooned
| EN- up in the Capitol Square in the
afternoon. Then during the hours
which followed free acts were the
order Of the day on Groad street,
one guy walkin' acrost ii on wire
fifty feet high. We would do the
same thing if they was a good stout
net a couple OF feet undor the wire
and some other guy would fall into
| II to see II II would hold.
They waH also some other acts on
the street, but we had such a sore
/ sock from lookin' at the guy on the
wire we couldn't get our head down
| in time TO sec what they were To-
| day we pass up the wire and look at
the rest