Show f THEIR MARRIED f I arm J I LIFE L I F E I I They Spend an Evening at The Magic MaRie City the Coney Island of ParisI Paris Paris' S I I By MABEL HERBERT URNER T 0 I 1 dl w r the line at the Eiffel tower lower declared Ya Warren ren i No N J vehemently You Youve Youe e dragged mc me around on a rubberneck rubber rubber- neck wagon and to most of the tourists' tourists haunts but Ill I'll be switched if I go up p that t tower Helen looked crestfallen It I I thought everyone went there Then we well we'll ll distinguish ourselves by not going Weve We've eve only got a few more oven oven ovon- ings and were we're going to spend cm em seeing things worth while How about the Magic Magic- l City 1 Like to go there tonight 1 r i 1 U But ut I thought you rOll said Friday was J i 1 the night for that T r Yes HYes Fridays Friday te the 4 big night but if we i ol Il sail t Saturday well we'll not want to be up late tr i If we go at all aU we wed we'd 1 better go now t It Thc They had just finished their dinner in a ai i P S rather smart Fr French restaurant on the 5 4 l' l Boulevard A few moments later the they were on a bus hUB marked The Magic ragie City The IU du day had been close elos and hot and now the night air seemed refreshingly cool Soon they were speeding across the Seine the dark lark waters reflecting the lights of the bridge in long golden streaks s. s Be Beyond ond was a great mass of illumination the illumination the Magic City Even tram from a n. distance c Helen could IM I'M outlined d by the lights the Ferris wheels and Md scenic railways which made It look like Cone Coney Island As they left the bus and walked up t the te e hill bill towards the thc glittering entrance they could hear hur the clash of oC a brass braes band mingled with the grinding music of ot the carousels and the shrieks of oC the passengers gore gers on the thrilling scenic roads ronde Very Bewildering Inside tho the panorama was bewildering and the crowd Ia pay gay and noisy Before each side show stood a barker shouting in French the wonders to be seen within None of ot the attractions was as over o CO riO centimes ten cents But the tue marvels of the painted signs that lured one to enter The astounding freaks the thc monstrosities that could bo be boen boen seer en behind those cheap of or canvas and board for only a few tew sous lous Regular old ld fashioned sideshows de de- dared Warren pausing before ft I highly colored colore Ut lithograph of or a cow with five ve legs ThU Thia is la the sort of or thing thins that used i I to travel with Barnum's circus Just about ten years behind the times over here Do you Oll suppose they rea really II have a an n legged legg cow asked Helen Warren grinned and poked some chan chance c in the ticket window receiving two pink checks which allowed them to togo togo go 0 behind tho the red curtain In a roped In a n brindle co cow was calmly switching her tall talland and munching meal from n R wooden bucket At u first glance she he looked like ke any other cow row The fifth I leg g. g which had been so glaringly conspicuous In the picture was not hot In evidence c Then Helen saw attached 11 to the left Idt for foreleg leJ a small malformation with a n half halt formed hoof hoot It ft was only a Q few rew Inches 1011 long end Ter very unlike the sturdy limb that hat th the artist h had d painted under tho the I cow in a SOrt ort of or center table le leg effect Well that's thal's more than I expected d. I laughed Warren Wan as they passed out como come nearer to to being like the i Picture outside tha than n anything else well we'll I sd eo cr Before the next attraction stood a girt girl girlIn girtIn In pink tights with a bright green satin satina a pash ah ll and two wo wn writhing writhing- serpents around her waist walt fly Dy her stood a 1 thick set Bet man extolling th the marvels of the lie show Warren who seemed in th the th mood to the tickets take toke in everything bought But Helen who hated and feared snakes entered re reluctantly The h whale l show Khow only of or a n ll birded bearded In n Inclosure which held a anum- anum number num num- be ber of ot snakes a tired looking lm monkey and andi i monstrous turtle Tho only arrangement arrange arrange- e- e ment for viewing this menagerie was wa to stand around the board tones and look i over Suddenly the girl rl in the pink tights came in from outside leaped over 01 the boards and nd the performance began Gathering up a dozen or more of the snake she Bhe hung them around her hor neck Then she called to the monkey who had been en sitting dejectedly on the back of or orthe the turtle He Ho limped over wearily and submitted to having the rest of ot the wriggling wriggling wrig wrig- gling snakes wound around him Helen W waa cas filled with revulsion for tor the performance and with pity for tor the path pathetic pa pa- th tle little monkey Not SNot a a. very inspiring spectacle agreed Warren Como Come on on lets let's see coo what's next Beyond this was a scenic railway where the cars rushed out in the darkness dark- dark ness nesi shot up to dizzy heights and down sickening drops with their load toad of ot shriekIng shrieking shriek shriek- ing passengers If It were we're going to risk our out necks on en those these things well we'll take our chances changes at home commented Warren as 05 the they passed on to a glittering carousel revolvIng revolving ing dizzily to the monotonous tune of or a steam calliope t Instead bf br the usual ho i and camels the steeds on this m merry merry-go- rry-go- rry round were all nil pigs Great pink pigs with golden saddles astride of which were wera a number of or good looking Frenchmen in evening dress and high silk hats hate the French of ot It it lau hed Warren nt at Helens Helen's astonishment They The say MY on Friday nl nights the smartest people come here Everybody y wears evening dress dross and they take uke in all alt these gigs They strolled on by several small sideshows sideshows side side- shows and stands of tawdry trinkets cand candy and popcorn Even Helen could se see that everything C showed the cheapest and flimsiest construction There afraid to spend money mone over here that's what's the tho matter denounced denounced de do- Warren Any good sized town at home could put up a II better amu amusement ement park than this That Tha t looks interesting Helen stood on her toes to see seo through h the crowd a sen sensational picture of or a hypnotized girl rl suspended In midair Dear rye never neverseen neverseen 8 seen en anyone hypnotized rd Td love to go CO in there As this was as a n more pretentious show the admission was one franc Inside wore wore- rows of ot rough rO board benches henches and a I- I gaudily painted stage e. e Hot and stuffy stuff grumbled Warren And they'll not start this show till they get n a CroWl crowd Think you want to wait walt 7 Oh yes res now that weve we've come In in Helen was thinking of or their two francs admission In spite of or th the loud exhortations of or orthe the lie man maii out outside the lie crow crowd straggled trag In Continued on pa pare page 31 H. THEIR MARRIED LIFE i Continued from pa page o 8 Continue slowly Ater After a few tew moments Warren Waren became Impatient time to Oh come on Weve We've got no waste hero here But Dut just Just then the drumming and ad ex exhorting ex- ex hosting horting outside ceased The barker baker barker tonic carrie In went to the piano h by the stage and banged out a lively a-lively march The place pl place CA CAwa was wa darkened arid and Ad the curtain curtan went ent up Instead of oC the tho hypnotist scene there therewa was a a. group up of girls pis In flesh colored colored wa Then tights posing na BD living pictures picture the lights flashed out a a hurried scuffle cume on the darkened stage and the same Mme models were again shown shon In a a different grouping VenUS grouping Venus le Ie Bain I II was slightly bow bowlegged I should sy wa bw Warrens Warren's Irrelevant corn corn- le legged egged e was S 'S Warns Warn's ant cm- cm When wm half hatt a a. a dozen other other- groupings had been Wen shown the tho curtain was a lowered the banging at the tho piano cease ceased and a 0 talL thin man in evening dress dresa stopped stepped to the front of the stage It was ws the hypnotist Helen could not understand his rapid French but plainly his hlf remarks w were ro to Impress impre the tho audience with the scene that waste follow Then he stopped back and tho the curtain rose Irose rose ht Beside him on the stage stood R a girlIn girlin girl girlIn In a gauzy blue tinselled pawn gown Iown It I was as tho the same samo sara foUZ girl who had posed In the living U picture as aB Venue She ho smiled and bowed to tho the audience then lay hey IRV sie down town nt at tho back of oC the tho stage on a bench ench draped blue velvet cvet The Tue hypnotist stood over her and und made mysterious mysterious mys mys- passes with his hands Slowly Slowly vera very slowly the slowly the girls girl's rigid form Corm seem seemed l to rise from the bench The Theman Theman Theman man continued to make mae the pal passes es until her body ody was vas suspended in the air about abut a foot fot above the bench hench Then taking a hoop hoop- he dramatically passed It I over o and around the girl girl Through the audience rippled a a rn mur murmur r- r mur of or amazement amazement With another oter Impressive Im Im- Irn- Irn bow the hypnotist resumed d the pa passes with his hands bands and slowly ly the girls girl's bod body sank back to the bench He e snapped his fingers th the girl opened her eyes ees and sat Mt up The next moment he led her smiling to the front of the stage and the curtain curtin fell fel amid loud appl applause ap ap- ap- ap pl use That was wonderful whispered Helen as t they made th their lT wa way out Huh Huhl that tricks trick's as BS old as ns the hills hUs scoffed Warren Waren But dear how could uld It i be a She must 11 have ve been suspended or cr ho couldn't have hn passed that hoop und abound her body Oh she was vas held heM up Jp there by hr sup sup- or wires all aU right I read an ex an rex rex- pose on on that but that but 1 forget how how nIts done done But Helen was wa unconvinced T To her herthe herthe the tho act had seemed very genuine and she was loath to think It i merely trickery It I was wa almost 11 1 now The crowd had thinned out some of ot now the 1 lights ht had boen been turned turne oft off of and several of the st stands were closing up Nothing more more doing here here complained Warren Waren Not In It with wih Coney Island anyhow Some enterprising American America ought to come over and show sho em cm how this sort of ot thing Is done done If I I had ha the time and the capital l Id I'd Id want want nothing better than to start a first class amusement amuse amuse- beter ment park right here a near ne Paris Pails Pars I Id Id d make a a. success of It I too Oh dear I know you OU would murmured mur mur- Helen admiringly But If Waren Warren Warren- had said sid he thought t of or reconstructing tho the Louvre Lune or reorganizing the F army Helen would have had tho the same same firm belief belet In his success SS |