The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-27
ELECTRIC SPANKING
ISPASS TOSHOW
Chastisement Has No Terrors
for East Side Kids in Grand
Central Palace.

The managers of the Electrical Show
IT. the Grand Central Palace have at last
found a use for the swRrms of young
sters who hang about the entrance OF
the big building whenever there is an
exposition there and halt every one who
approaches with a plaintive:
got ticket for the show. Mister?
Gimme n ticket Missis."
The boys are now admitted on condi-
ton they will serve as subjects for the
,monstration of the Electric Spanker.
Lack of subjects almost queered the
opening of the booth where this much
heralded attraction was finally set up
yesterday after several days delay.
Much as parents were and are interested
ia the premier of this parents assistant.
TO parent was willing to admit that his
or her offspring was the naughty child
for whom the show management some
what untactfully called.
Bring your naughty children here
and have them corrected. Practically
painless but absolutely eff1cacious." ran
the announcement. and of course each
father and mother stood around and
waited for the next couple to furnish
the material for lesson number one.
The ticketless lads from the East Side,
however, submit themselves willingly
few whacks from the electrically oper-
ated paddle are nothing much to pay for
The sight of the wonders of the show.
Next in interest TO the spanker is the
fat mans friend, or the reducycle. an
elaborate machine which looks like a
combination hobby horse and adjustable
bath spray. The hobby horse, with a
leather seat, prances and lunges inside
4 large box at the beLest OF electricity,
under the shelter of a white oilcloth can
opy like those, used to keep the bath
room walls from getting wet. The fat
! man rides the hobby horse in a cloud of
electrically induced steam, thereby get
ting exercise and a Turkish bath at the
| some time
Early in the day the inventor OF this
contrivance made strenuous efforts to
charm the fat men who wandered near
| into the box and on the hobby horse TO.
demonstration, but one and all they
declined. All seemed to have a Crouch
on the thing, and finally 1t dawned upon
the inventor why 1t was. They were
hurt, and naturally. by the inscription
over the booth:
Nobody loves fat man."
Besides not being true. as one fat man
at the show argued loudly, Look at ex-
President Taft and Big Bill Edwards.
4 he said; haven't they plenty OF
friends?' the inscription was untactful
It wasn't an hour after It was taken
down before fat men were hanging In
large numbers, simply entranced, arour
the reducycle.
There was no explanation on the pa RI
of the management as to why the fiji
scriptions and booklets said nothir 6
about fat ladies. The persons at the
booth, when 1t was put up to them, said
that OF course the reducycle was Just al
efficacious for the fair sex as for the
other.
Round the corner from the reducyclt
huge crowds OF men watched6 absorbed
as a deft person manipulated a patent
thing that tied neckties into neat knot,
and bows much more handily than thu
human male animal and with absolutely
none OF the usual accompanying Ian
guage. It was said that machine wouls
/ soon be on the market that would wftf
the aid Of electricity find the lost collar
putton, no matter how far under thu
bureau It had rolled.