Show I AMERICANS SOBER AT THEIR PLEASURES It has been stated many times that Americans take their pleasures serl seri seriously In one of the current magazines are two photographs one presenting views of a crowd in a German city on the occasion of a fete Every face in insight sight and the whole foreground Is filled with people is wreathed in smiles There is nothing boisterous or disorderly about them but there Is an evident happiness And yet no antic motions by their entertainers are ob observed observed observed served The other picture Is a section of the crowd that watched the I floats go by in New York Every face is somber and solemn as if the funeral of the ages were passing One com corn commentator commentator declares that we of ot America have forgotten how to play And maybe that is the solution of the pus puzzle puzzle zie That greatest of all aU pageants ever held in the United States is now being analyzed In a rather more critical man manner manner mannor ner nor than by the newspapers of ot content contemporary contemporary date We are told that the peo people people pie appearing on the several floats had no possible relation to their places They were hired men and hired women They know anything about a steamboat nor a sailing vessel Those who acted as lay figures on the Indus Industrial industrial industrial trial and other floats were queerly out of place They took no Interest in their mimicry because b cause they knew nothing of ot Its significance In the old days in the old countries especially In Provence wise people tell tellus tellus tellus us the actors in similar dramas were artists and artisans Their places on the floats were their places in the activities activities activities ties of life And the throngs that wit witnessed witnessed witnessed the play saw the element of ot veri verity verity yen ty and sincerity in the actions of their entertainers Other Americans may have forgotten how to play But it is to be hoped that the Wards of the Wizard of the tha Wa Wasatch Wasatch Wasatch satch may strike a clearer er note in their song of a a rising era when they next year ear come down from the mountains with their demonstration Let et there be one place In America where a pageant shall not only be worth seeing but shall shaU I be good enough to entertain even to the point p of amusing the e people |