The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-05-20
SOME CARNIVAL

Last night, about eight O'Clock, we
went. around to the carnival that the
American Legion Post and the Mar
ion County Hospital are giving for
two evenings in the open space be-
tween the armory and East Broad
way. There we enjoyed ourself for
an hour and were ready to say "Some
Carnival. when we came away.
The first and most observable feat
ure from the Broadway side was the
open air dining room with the side of
the Christian church for backstop
where thefadies of the Legion Auxil-
larry were serving eats on the cafe
taria plan. Being somewhat bewild-
cred by the variety of viands, we told
Mrs. Dumas to give US as much as we
looked like we could pay for, and on
receiving the check for a well-filled
platter we allowed that the lady had
not lost any of her well-known good
judgment. The open-air dining room
exactly fitted the balmy evening, and
the food was excellent and at reason
able prices. Don't forget the same
entertainment this evening at the same
place.
Having fortified ourself sufficiently
for at least six hours, we strolled on
up the gentle incline toward the arm
DRY. Scarcely were we out of the
dining room gate when we came upon
little tent, labeled Fortune Teller"
We are crazy about fortune telling.
We have had ours told eight times in
the last fourteen years-each differed
from the. other, and some of the
things told in them have come to pass.
mystery about the tent and peeking
thru a crack between its wall and the
door flap we saw small, well-shaped
foot, encased in a moccasin. Now, we
don't mean that moccasin snake had
swallowed the foot, but that the foot
was elegantly done up in a moccasin
shoe. Get us? 1t took no Sherlock
Holmes to- deduce that the fortune
teller wasMan Indian princess-a good
locker if she matched the foot. We
stuck an eye thru the crack and lamp
ing her found our diagnosis was cor
rect. Pocahontas had nothing on her
Ahem. We wish that last sentence tC
be construed according to twentieth
century slang and not Victorian
English. The princess was charm
ingly arrayed in feathers, beads, Wam-
pun, buckskin, Thomashawk anC
scalping knife, and if she had nc
scalps it was because she cared not
to take them. She babe US be seated
and let her sean our palms. But first
we wanted to know the tariff. She
said that was with US. There was e
dainty basket by her side-it was
artistically woven of reedy grass anC
bespangled with beads, or it if wasn't
it should have been, and in it reposec
half dollar. We thought half for,
tune was all We deserved, so slipped
to the princess two bits. We were
glad she didn't look at the backs OF
our hands, for we haven't been to the
manicure lately. The princess looked
at our hands and told US an entirel!
new fortune. Her wit and wisdom ar,
equal to her good looks. We looked a
her hands and thought what gooC
holding they would make, and 81
thinking kept on looking and listening
until she rather abruptly asked if w
hadn't had enough good fortune TO
twenty-five cents. We would tell he
name but from the flash of her eye
we guess we better hadn't. Go SCI
her this evening and judge for your
self.
> At the next booth, Mrs. 0. Z. Co,
and Mrs. Harvey Clark were dispens
ing soft drinks at a nickel throw
Seemed like their goods were bette
than such drinks at other places
Don't forget to wet your goozle a
their stand this evening.
Art the next booth was Cola" W
couldn't pass this up, because, first
lola used to was one of our favorit
authors, and, second, Miss Margare