El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-20
Hot Dogs Okeh
But Corn On
The Cob, NeUer
Yanks Having Great Time
At Gingerbread Fair
Now In Full Blast.

Paris. France, May 20-Paris is get
ting back into its old stride and Mis-
ter Samuel DOughboy is in his glory.
Everywhere his royal American
highuess goes there's something 10
remind him Of home. II it isn't an Old
friend it's his next OF kin-America' s
national bird, familiarly and rever-
emily known to habitues OF COney
Island and elsewhere in the C. s. A.
under the appetizing name Of hot
dog
This succuIeut piece d'resistance.
with all its customary trimmings, has
made its appearance at the Ginger
bread fair. which said fair was her
sion and a yearning for more than
twelve hundred entrants to part Mis-
ter DoughDOy-and everybody else
who can be paEted-from as many
sous as they might have conveniently
loose in their pockets.
The Gingerbread fair. sometimes
called the Throne fair, is said 10 be
centuries old, like the Easter fair at
Seville But age 70 the contrary not
withstanding, the hot dog is new,
that is, it's comparatively new 20 the
Gingerbread fair. One reason Is the
fair is supposed 10 last six weeks. and
as wartime restrictions have made IL
Impossible 10 supply sugar for enough
gingerbread 10 go round, the pro-
motors Of the fair have substituted
PIGS is pigs" everywhere You find
them. but sif there was ever a greater
variety OF them than at the Ginger
bread fair, were from Missouri Most
Of EN-, except Of course, those which
have been transformed Into hot
dogs" have had all the squeal taken
ont Of them-that is they are sugar
cured pigs, so TO speak, with white
frOsting on their backs which spell
boys and girls names. The real
m.Hn nHas
buys one and then begins 10 realize
what a dent il has made in his pursL
Apparently, the only thing Ameri-
can lacking at the Gingerbread fair
is corn on the cob. The French
haven't as vet brought themselves
to the notion that corn on the cob
was ever intended for anything but
animal consumption. They eat many
things we never think or. but they
don't Ike 20 mix their food with any
thing that resembles corn in It's nat
Yankee Doodle" and the '0Iarsen-
laise" are heard at the half dozen
merry gO-rounds. and this probably
IS responsible for the fact that, next
10 the hot dog stands, the merry
gO-rOunds are the most popular fea-
ture Of the fair insofar as Mister
Doughboy and his best CFrench) girl
is concerned.
The Gingerbread fair. which be-
gins AT the Place de ia Nations and
stretches for blocks along that part
Of Paris to which the convergence Of
tramcar lines, subways. omnibusesl
and railroads make access most easy
is indeed, the nearest approach 20
Coney Island that the American sol
der has seen in France There are
side shows, boxing matches, vaude-
vile. clowns. snake charmers. marion
cites who enact French history. and
In one OF the authentic guillOtine used
az Lyons and Feur in 1888.
Innumerahle rouette wheels shoot
ing galleries with scores OF lzaisers as
targets. and fortune telling machines
are ready 10 lure Mister DouEhbov on
with his money. In fact. there Is
about everything one can imagine. as
one member OF the Doughboy family
expressed IT, from the woman who
fries potatoes with one hand while
she sells hot fritters with the other I
10 the proprietor Of the dog and pony Z
show.