Marion Marlowe on the Prairie, or, A Thrilling Ride Across Kansas — page 3: what you’re looking at

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— wee = tc JOURNAL rOk YOUNG WOMEN No. 23. NEW YORK, March 2, 1901. Price Five Cents. MARION OARLOWE ON THE PRAIRIE; OR, A THRILLING RIDE ACROSS KANSAS. By GRACE SHIRLEY. CREE Eat. Fe THE FORTUNE TELLER. “Oh, Alma! Look at that sign! Madam Zhangara will tell our fortunes, cast our hor- oscopes and read our palms all for one dollar! Do let’s go in and hear what she has to say! Of course, we will not believe her, but it will be very amusing!” “Dear me, Marion! What reckless extrava- gance! Now, if we could just get her to throw in a shampoo and a manicure with her horoscope, I might be tempted to go.” “She'll have to add a free lunch if I go, girls, for I’m as hungry as a bear with all this riding. I tell you what we'll do!’ I'll go and order dinner-in that bum-looking res- taurant across the way, while you go in and learn your fate. Just hold on a minute until I can find some Kansas galoot to look after the horses!” They'd look after you, if they heard the pet names you call them, Bert! But you might tackle this long, lanky fellow that is coming, if you are sure he did not hear you Sg Bert Jackson, the comedian of the Temple Theatrical Company, pulled a pair of scrawny- looking horses close to the sidewalk ¢while this conversation was going on and the next minute his three charming companions were standing on the sidewalk teller’s office. The place was Kansas City side,”’ before the fortune , onthe Kansas as they say in that section, but the company was playing in Kansas City, Mis- souri, which is separated from the Kansas section by nothing more formidable than a State line. Marion Marlowe, the star of the company, had suggested this visit to the sorceress, but now, as she stood on the pavement looking up at the sign, her companions detected tle hesitancy in her manner. a lit- COMICOOOKS.Ec®