The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-10-13
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WILLIE
ROGERS


Beverly Hills-Well all know is
just what read in the papers, or
what I see here and there. There
is an awful lot to see this year, if
you Just sit on the side lines and
look on. The politicians never were
in a bigger huddle.
A few weeks ago when candi-
date Roosevelt was out here you
never saw such a bunch of demo-
cratic outriders. You see out here
in California it used to be hard to
scare up a democrat, and when you
did he was scared sure enough. But
now they are showing their heads
amelessly. Why you would think
the rascals were the salt of the
earth the way they are acting up.
But it was a big time for EN-.
Folks did give Mr.. Hoover fine
reception, and mighty good time
was INDUCED in by practically all.
The movies turned out and gave !
big night for him, not because they
was going democratic. They are
little of everything, and most of
us not much of anything. We are
all too interested in our "Art" to
give much thought to material
things. Don't that sound like a
real artist?) Most of us don't even
know who is running.
In fact, who is running? Well,
Mr.. Roosevelt said he was, and the
way they cheered think he was.
Wei don't really mean, "We,"
had nothing to do with it-but they
did put on a fine show for him.,
They had what they call an electric
pageant. That seems to be the
GO" now is a pageant. It used to
be called just a parade, but now its
a pageant.
Now here is a kind of joke on
us that I don't know If its aver
leaked out or not. We had about
Is beautiful floats with girls just
"Strewn" all over EN-. You wound
naturally say "Why those floats
cost a lot of dough" And they did.
That is they did when they were
first used. They were built by
somebody, I don't know who, but
they were built for the Shriners
convention and parade in Frisco,
which was held a short time before
and we Just hired EN-. If there had
been any Frisco folks in the aud
fence it would have looked like old
home week to EN-, but that's one
thing there is never any Frisco
folks down this way. Here and
Death Valley is two places Frisco
folks seldom ever go. To them one
is lust about as desolated as the
other.
Course we took the old floats and
changed the name on EN-. Where
one up there might have been
christened 1.-THE Progress of
Beauty" or something, why we had
Laurel and Hardy on it and called
it Laughter Will Pay"
Then they had some polo games.
They weren't so hot, on account Of
| the size of the field, and they should
have used an indoor ball, which Is
bigger and the people. could have
seen, and also that tn players
could have too.
It was kind of chilly night and
it seems that it's an unwritten law
that you can't put a girl on a float
with any clothes on. In fact, here
is the ingredients of a Pageant"
You first pick cold night, then
have plenty of places all over the
Float" for girls to stand. But
don't let em~have anything on.
That's the first ingredient Of a
"FIoat Rider is to be totally max
ed. Now she must be able to smile
through the snow and sleet. What
she is up there doing or what she
is to represent must never enter
her head any more than it does
the man who arranges it. She is
lust up there to act naked, and
hope that she is not frostbitten by
the end of the journey. They are
not really "Pageants." They are
early stages of pneumonia" They
are endurance contests, to see how
much a girl can stand and shiver
herself off the pedestal they have
her on. You see a thing like that
is just right up these old fat Shrin-
ers, alley. They sit there in their
warm overcoats and delight on bet
ting when the girl will turn to an
icicle. A Pageant" is a collection
of bare skin, surrounded by plenty
of electric light bulbs.
Oh, yes there is F. 8. A guy
tried to jump horse through
hoop of fire. The horse wouldent
lump, and the man was without a
shadow of a doubt the worst jump
ling horse rider in the world. He
finally walked the horse up to and
forced him into it. The horse
knocked the whole contraption and
fell in the fire. The man got no
burns, much to the disgust Of 80
thousand people.
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