Arizona republican., 1920-11-11
JEAN AND GEORG|E
 TAKE IN THE FAIR

Well, We went to the fair yesterday. Georgie and I drove out in her car and ! it was a good thing that we did or we never would have gotten there at all, | because the street cars were so slow that they are hopeless.
 Howver, we did get there, and then our real troubles began. To begin with, yesterday was Indian day and all the squaws, papposes, Indian men and children were out in full force. One stumbled over them at every turn.
 The first thing that we went to see were the wild animals, mean the do- mestic animals. We saw a great big ugly pig that was too fat and lazy to get off the ground. Then there were a few more big ones with their pedi gree written out and pasted up on the pen in which they were being kept. They grunted at one in a most inane way and snuffed around the ground. don't see why they insisted on shifting, because the odor was something terri ble Georgie liked it and so did the pigs, but l. having spent some of my summers on farm, did not.
 And by the way, it is a trite saying that a cat may look at a king, but it took a 600-pound porker to show that a hog can make the whole world steal glimpse at number of queens. es- pecially when they are wearing light silk hosiery and are perched on the shaky top of light fence,
 While the judging of hogs was going on in the livestock section a majestic pig, newly combed and brushed, was l led out to try for honors. He marched sedately between his keepers until he had nearly reached the little stockade. Near the gate were four young women, modishly attired, who quite evidently were getting their first close ups of hogs other than the human variety. When porlxer neared the gate, how | ever, his sedateness left him, and he made a wild dash in the general direc- I tion of the grandstand, route that led him almost under the feet of the young
 women.
 As he started his sprint. with tail curled tightly and squeal succeeding
 saueal in crescendo the young women spotted him, and with echoing squeals
 and a flirt of silk skirts they clambered
 wildly to the top of the fence, while g
 gratified crowd yelled approval of their
 hosiery and their celerity. while tho hog, burdened as he was with at leasi
 a hundred dollars worth of prime porl chops, became winded within 90 yard:
 of the gate and was quietly herded back
 to the arena.
 We'll after the pigs, which, by the
 way are now decorated with blue and
 red ribbons, we went to see the goats
 and the sheep. They were little bii Icleaner and not quite so smelly, bu
 they, too. were fat and lazy. And after
 the sheep and the goats we went tC
 see the chickens-poultry I believe, i:
 the way this exhibit is catalogued, but
 nearly everyone understands one whef
 one says chickens. We'll, anyway, w;
 saw the chickens Some of the rooster:
 insisted on growing, although it wa:
 the middle of the afternoon. But crow
 they would, and crow they did. They
 too, were kind of smelly, as were thu
 little guinea pigs that slept through al
 the hubbub.
 Then we went to the races. An, thos'
 races. Slower than molasses in Janu ! ary, which in my climate is quite slow
 En route to the races we got mixed ul , with a wad of Indians and in the mids i of it found Mir. Mcleod, who had los ! a wife, four children and his father
 in-law. The only thing that he wa afraid of was that they might be foun before the afternoon was over. f We'll we scrambled into the grand l stand and a man came along and pu . & cushion on each Of our seats. w : thanked him politely and sat down.
 few minutes later he came back an : wanted two-bits apiece for the cush n ions. We got up and gave them t f him.
 -I Then the races began, and they wer q very pokey. The most exciting thin n of the afternoon was the dog shoV }. which was staged between acts. :. lot of smartly dressed women led th d little and big dogs before the judge e stand. and each one got cup fC Il something. One of the ladies and he s dog were escorted by MT. Findley ( T the Republican staff. He went wit q her and we haven't seen him since. : Then we came home. The show wa II over.