Show loss ey 0 0 I 1 41 K HE american who ho would mould know hie his country must know ita its most characteristic summer playground coney leland island which la in thug thus pictured by a writer in jn the new york evening post then them was an endless end lesa surging tide of 0 people a crowd which would be described next day as a record breaking for it waa was a sunday afternoon in june and thousands bad had es raped from their hot city aDart apartment ments and ere spending it at u COL Y leb ishad nd there may be persons left who want to rest on the sabbath day but not so those who journey down to this fascinating place where the sights and the sounds are enough to keep them perpetually stimulated many of the me people you pans pass upon the street look ae as if it they bad had worked hard bard for the other six days of the week but now they ere are determined to have some fun to make up for it and have chosen the noisiest nois iest most crowded and the gay est place wilva reach wow shouts a man in red coat who stands before a side show the pla cards of at which declare that it will re veal the wonders of the orient wow como come in and have a look never aw saw anything like it ladies and gents wow come in and have a look and be he Is only one of ten in his im mediate vicinity each of whom Is I 1 blessed with strong expletives strong lung ung capacity and a marvelous eualina tion toward hospitality subtlety versus tho the obvious if it coney were a place of silence or of merely mild sound the visitor would never be inspired to do the thing things which be he finds himself 6 ved to do when hen excited by the roar about him it bears him along be he ie to deafened by it and soon finds himself shouting with the othere others laughing uproariously at the spectacle of a solen n man wear ear ing a small red felt hat about as bit big as an a teacup over one ear car although as a matter of everyday every day choice he prefers a somewhat subtler acreal to hu mor the crowde crowds take you along you laugh with them you push ard shove with them tou u feel yourself youre elf closer to human future than ever before even la in the subway at rush hour this crowding and pushing mob Is very dif ferent from the subway crowd tired aftel a day daye r work cross and hot and lackadaisical this Is a gay and sociable cle le and contented ring ering which beare bears you along on thu wave ave of its even if you come alone and join the crowds yuu you fee at once accompanied and befriend eel ed lu such a mood of comradeship and boisterousness you love to watch the man who Is ost out bags of or pop corn to those who proffer the necessary nickel alle he the popcorn itself pope pops white inside a glaes glass case rno mow ering down like a fountain tomain and fur aber on there la Is the attraction of the smoking icing pla e on which hp doge arv belne being brooked till their kne skins burst an they are laid between two rolls and laved lib eudard and ad certainty certainly it is the most natural J thing in the wora for or the person who at other times 41 4 1 la a other places has a care of bett be he eats to order one jtb the reet rest of the crowd and to work bla bis vay may along the street with it in ble his hand eating it as the others are doing sometimes the faces above the hot dog dogs seem incongruous enough they are the faces of those who are intelligent aa as to dietetics but have been sia swept ept on past the bounds of caution by the enthusiasm of coneys surging multitude mob spirit and the tickler the mob spirit in the place la Is contagious nhat hat else would mould have persuaded that dignified elderly man to buy a ticket for the mammoth tickler or for this contrivance which hurls burls you about at a break breal neck speed racking your nerves as you alt sit crouched in juat just large enough for two the watchers see u home of the merrymakers come off that roller coaster with il white line about the mouth and a look in their eyes it la is not instinctive idea of pleasure to be rushed down a lope slope with such terrible force their breath ie Is beaten out of them and they gasp and cringe but what if they are pale and shaky shay ae as they step off there Is an express expression sion in the line of their closely drawn lips which shows that they have determined that what mist be must be and they are on pleasure bent suffer what tortures they may the fact that this was the pl ayland of adults came over roe me after seeing ome some hundreds of children on thia this particular sunday afternoon who whom were ere plainly there just because their fathers and mothers had wanted to como never ever have I 1 seen euch such utter I 1 boredom and weariness ea written ritten on any faces as wag was depicted on those of the many children who pushed their tired way war along down dowa among the knees of the crowd while their elders with their heads in the air took in the delights of the place some were ere being carried too utterly exhausted to do anything but droop heavily over ther fathers fath cre shoulder eh not caring to open oper an ee ce to see the ile snake charmer ae an the barent stopped fascinated before her you help seeing on the train coming home that it was as the parents not the children childre n who must have wanted anted to come and for whom coney land island vae vas a wonderland ond erNnA the former lay limp in their parents laps sound asleep while bile tre grownups talked and laughed over their heads beads it aa was the children who ho had been patient and long suffering and it was mas the parents who mho had really enjoyed themselves A small boy with light hair a snub none and a freshly freckled fac face burlee burles his hi head deeper in the curve of his hi mother mothers arms and gives a long sigh as his parent parents crunch over hie his lit tie tle head |