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ENQUIRER-SON: COLlMBlS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1890.
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LEADERS
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NEW PLAYS IN NEW YORK
A SUCCESS
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SOUTHERN
■ “MEN AND WOMEN”—MAURICE BAB-
RYMOBE IN “RECKLESS TEMPLE?”
THE LATEST KNOL1SH
ACTOR.
We are very busy, almost too busy, to write long adver
tisements, hut we will Jet our patrons know what iMonday
morning’s express will bring:
A NEW LINE OF LADIES’
and Misses' Jackets and Reefers in Piush, Diagonal and other
siylish and warm Goods.
New Dress roods ia Plaids of very attractive colors.
A full line ot Gause and Tinsel materials for evening
dresses.
An entire new line of Fancy Neck Ruffles in Austrich,
Silk and ChevioPe.
BEADED SLEEVES.
PLUSH and ASTRAGHAN CAPS.
Now Read Carefully.
Our buyer in New York has sent u« a lot of Children’s
and Infants’ Caps in Piush aarl Silk in white, black and c >1-
ors, all tine goods. Plain and Embroid-red. They were
bought way under the price, an t we offer tne entire line
AT ONE HALF THEIR VALUE.
You will find them on the counter to your left when sou
come in.
NEW CARPETS! NEW RUGS!
NEW ART SI AKES!
Ju-t received in our Millinery New Shapes, New Gilt
Drop Trimmings.
Three cases of large Felt Flats, black and colors.
L. SINSHEIMER,
JHE-A-IDBR OF LOW PRICES.
New York Office - 548 Uroaiiway. New York Buyer’s Office-
401 Broadway. 1141 and 11^3 Broad Street, Columbus. Ga.
RHODES
Furniture Company.
“Blest bo the spot where cheerful folks retire
To pause lmm toil, and trim their evening fire."
Yes, 'tis with a keen sense of comfort that one enjoys a comfortable seat before
the tire when the cool evenings of the fall come. Little comfort could we get, however,
without our easy chairs. Now that the evenings are beginning to lengthen, and the
weather gets cooler, surprise your husband with a tine easy chair for his evenings’
rest., and get yourself a new rocker at the same time. We have an endless assortment
of Chairs of all kinds, sizes and prices, and everything else in the Furniture line.
For Exposition week we offer the following special bargains:
Best Woven Wire Bed Springs, three rows spirals, maple frames, only $2.50.
Heavy Cotton Top Mattresses only $2.00.
Iairge, elegant XVI Century Finish Bed Boom Suits only $35.00.
Beautiful six piece Plush Parlor Suits only $30.00.
Beautiful heavy Walnut Bed Room Suit, bevel glass, marble top, 10 pieces, ouly
$'.0.00.
Elegant Antique Sideboards, beautiful designs, only $15.00.
Wardrobes, Bookcases, Tables, Hat Racks. Cabinets, etc., in endless variety, and
prices that put elegant Furniture within reach of all.
(tur stock of Carpets and Wall Paper is far ahead of any other stock in the city.
1 bought in large quantities before the rise, and sell at our old prices.
Don’t waste your money with small dealers, but come to headquarters for what-
r you want.
Remember we buy for twentvtliree different houses.
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New York, November 1.—[Special.]—
“Captain Swift” and “A Man of the
World” bare made Maurice Barrymore,
for whom each play is almost a synonym,
the most popular actor in New York.
Undoubtedly his long, successful career in
the legitimate and sensational dramas of
the better class had something to do with
his artistic popularity, bnt these two plays
have riveted it. Monday night this popu
larity was tried to the utmost. Mr. Bar
rymore then appeared at the Standard
Theatre in a new play called “Reckless
Temple," specially adapted to bring out
his best points of personal and stage char
acter; really a dramatization of Maurice
Barrymore with that actor as an imper
sonator of himself. The eritics are di
vided over the play. The Times gives it
lukewarm praise; the Snn condemns it;
the Tribune gently satirizes it; the Press
lauds it for one of the brightest and wit
tiest pieces with reference to stage dia
logues that has appeared in years; While
the Herald, according to ils wont, indulges
its usual unmeaning Bowery slang. Hap
pily for Mr. Barrymore and his friends,
there is unanimous praise for the actor; so
out of a good or a bad play he seems to be
able to reap a personal success.
The story of “Reckless Temple” is, in
brief, as follows: Mr. Barrymore, under
the name of Edgar Temple, popularly
called Reckless, is a young lawyer of con
vivial habits. He extols the bibnlous pu
gilistic life he has led and scorns the
society that has ostracised him, but all the
time he shows that he possesses great
mental and physical manliness as welfas a
tender heart. In the first act of the play
he works for the acquittal of a man who
bad committed justifiable homicide but
whp has been abandoned in his pitiable
condition by all his friends exeept Reck
less. In the next act Temple champions
and protects the. brother of the girl whom
he loves, by taking upon himself the
odium ot a crime uone by that person
against a woman. Naturally these condi
tions, as they bring him into general hor
ror, awake a profound contempt in the
heart of Reckless for the opinions of the
world. He is in a fair way to become a
hardened cynic, a hardened reprobate and
everything else to which that adjective is
usually applied, but through it all he re
mains, or he is meant to remain, a thor
oughly likable fellow, and at last the hero
ine of the play, the good girl who clings to
him through all vicissitudes and contume
ly, works a reformation in his character.
About the same time the villain loses in a
draw as to which shall go out and commit
suicide. He goes, but confesses first, and
so Reckless is rid of his evil reputa
tion, and the play euds happily.
This play of “Reckless Temple” aDd its
author, Mr. “Gus” Thomas, need not feel
obliged to crawl away somewhere to avoid
seeing its failure. But, on the other
hand, one recalls after hearing it the
prophecy of a callow critic in a .Sunday
daily who proclaimed Augustus Thomas to
be the Sheridan of these times.
The fact remains that Maurice Barry
more is an extremely popular actor. He
is, alas, an indifferent actor and an indif
ferent man, which may account for the
affection people bear him. Have you not
noticed that the mao who does not seek
popularity but rather avoids it is usually
the one who wins the gold headed cane?
The stories which are told of Maurice
Barrymore, would make an interesting
volume. He has lived. Notoriously care
less about engagements, profoundly indif
ferent to the opinion of posterity, Mau
rice Barrymore is a perfect enfant de sou
siecle. The only vice he needs to acquire
to make him perfect is a taste for absinthe.
Let me tell one story about the portrait of
him as he appears in “Captain d?wift,” of
which over a million copies have been
sold. A prominent photographer had tried
every way in vain to get him to sit for this
picture. He made appointment after ap
pointment and broke each in turn. Then
he turned up unexpectedly the morning
after the French ball, which he
had attended. He had played
at the Madison Square Theater, then
danced from twelVe to daybreak, drove to
breakfast at the Casino restaurant in Cen
tral Dark, and at 9 o’clock in the morning
still in the dress suit he had worn in the
play and at the ball, he came t.o the studio
and posed for the picture which now adorns
mantels from Maine to California. Is not
the stage name he now bears shited to him
—Reckless Temple?
Miss CKielle Tyler has made a success of
beauty and talent combined in the new
plaj by Belasco and DeMille entitled “Men
ana Women.” which had its first repeti
tion at Proctor’s Twenty-third street thea
ter last week. Miss Tyler is a Southern
girl, the daughter of Major Kirkland, and
her friends ate greatly delighted to see her
now where she belongs, on the Metropoli
tan stage. “ Men and Women” is the
third in the series of plays, the other two
of which wore “The Wife” and “The
Charity Ball ” It lias had a success equal
to the first and superior to the second. Tin
story is beautifu., and witli all its compli
cations, its varied characters, each of whorn
is drawn to the life, it deserves the com
prehensive title chosen by the authors.
There was an experiment, in taking tne
play out of the setting which framed the
other two, the I.yceunt theater on Fourth
avenue above Twenty-third street, but the
experim-nt. has succeeded and Messrs. Be
lasco and DeMille have shown they are not
wt dded to the fort tint s oi one house.
The season’s novelties arc found widest
apart today. One is the production of
English Grand Opera at Ilamnierstein's,
on 125tli street, and the other is the dra
matic fragrant. la tidies Nero," at
Niblo’s, tfie theater fatthest down town.
More than a mention should tie accorded
the enterprise of Mr. Oscar Hamtnerstein
for inauguraDt'g English opera in this
stronghold of Wagner, lie lias spared
neither pains nor money to collect an ex
Cellent comp my of musicians and singers,
and as he ....s made a hit nobody will won- |
e'er or criticise. Success always
the trouble to go to Harlem to see her
again when they visit New York.
As for its antipode Claudius Nero, no
exhortation is need, everybody will go to
see it. and they will not waste their time.
It is a deserving drama and not the mere
spectacle its name suggests. The play is
strong, a perversion of history, perhaps,
bnt none the less interesting. It relates in
telling tableaux the storvjof the Emperor
Nero and his love for a poor girl, and until
the last act much of the horror associated
#ith his name is not on the scene. It is
in the last act when Nero has been driven
to desperation by the abduction of the
loved one by his mother that his demoniac
passions, hitherto subdued, work their
fury and he gives the Christians to the oil
bath and torch, and while playing on the
“fiddle” watches Rome dissolve in ashes.
Some very good and strong actors assist in
this drama, notably Wilton Lackaye, who
will be remembered by many Southern
people as the “Portuguese” in the play of
Feather Brain.
Nero ia disappointing in one sense only
that it is not the spectacle rich and gif ring
some of ns who love to feast our eyes had
expected. Bnt there are an abundance of
pretty girls in“fetching”costumes,there are
beantifnl scenes, and the dramatic element
fully justifies the descriptive title of the
piece “a dramatic pageant."
Three new plays will be seen here very
soon now: “The Last rtord,” at Daly’s,
which will absorb the strength of that
celebrated company. “The Middleman,”
at Palmer’s theater, and “A Pair of Spec
tacles, ”|U the Madison Square. The sub
stitution of “The Last Word,” drawn from
the German is awaited with innch interest
by the patrons of Daly, who were not
pleased by the opening piece of the season,
“His Lamps for Old,” although it is by
Jerome K. Jerome, the last popular
writer who furthers the two other suc
cesses of New Look, “Maister of Wood-
barrow,” at the Lyceum and “Sunset,”
which raises the curtain at the Garden
theater.
Of the “Middleman” and the actor who
will plaf the leading role much is expected.
The play is by Henry Arthur Jones, an
Englishman who has acquired success by
legitimate methods. Iu this play he ex
ploits the painful struggle of the working
potter. Mr. Willard, who comes over to
play in it, is almost as famous in London
as the manager of the Lyceum theatre.
Mr. Joseph Hatton, who accompanied
Irving to this country, came over with
Willard, and Miss Bessie Hatton, his
daughter came also. She will have a part
in “The Middleman.”
Willis Steel.
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THE WASHINGTON RACES.
Washington, November 4.—The
weather and track were fine.
First race—Five and a half furlongs;
Bellvue won, Yirgie second, Helen Rode
third. Time 1:09.
Second race—Seven furlpfigs; Pericles
won, Blantvre second, Tappahannock
third. Time 1:31.
Third race—Six furlongs; Ofalcie won,
St. John second, Dover third. Time
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Fourth race—One mile and a sixteenth;
Foxmede won, Prather second, Golden
Reel third. Time 1:50.
Fifth race—One mile and a furlong;
Gipsey Queen won, Cortieelli second, Fan
nie U third. Time 1:57.
APALACHICOLA’S BUDGET.
Apalachicola, Fla . November 3.—
[Special.]—A good portion ot' our business
men are discussing and arguing with in
surance adjusters about now.
From tile appearance of the brtrne.l dis
trict it would hardly seem as though there
was much left to adjust, yet they manage
to spend a good deal of time at it.
The condemnation of the actions of the
negroes at the fire is universal. There is
not a white man in Apalachicola who
would not tlo all in his power to save
property, no matter whether it was white
man’s or negro's, and yet a majority of
the colored people exhibited the most su
preme indifference to the distruction of
property, much of which might have been
saved had they put forth an effort.
On the other hand, those who did work,
worked with a will, and are entitled to the
credit of it.
It is probable that all of the burned
buildings will be built during the next six
months, with the possible exception of the
Kennedy mill, but no matter bow quickly
they are rebuilt it will be a tight Christ
mas lor very many of our working people.
The Bluff mill is now in operation and
will run all the winter.
Logs are very low on account of the
distruction of the mills, and log men will
suffer as well as lumber men.
CAMP HILL NOTES.
Camp Hill, Ala., November 4.—[Spe
cial.]—Prof. F. M. Blount, principal of
the Opelika High School, was in our midst
last Saturday shaking hands with his
many friends.
The Methodists are building a hand
some parsonage on their church lot. •
Mr. Elijah Eekles. a prominent farmer
who lives about four miles east of here,
and Miss Florence Fargason. a beautiful
and accomplished daughter of Hon. John
T. Fargason, who lives in the same com
munity, were happily united in matri
mony on last Sunday morning. Dr. Z. D.
Roby officiating.
Quite a number of our citizens contem
plate attending the Exposition, which
opens tomorrow.
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OPENS AT
OOLTTIMIIBTTS , C3-JL.
THIS DAY, 5th OF NOVEMBER.
THE OFFICIAL PROGRAMME.
First Day—‘ Opening: Day.”
WEDNESDAY, November 5th, 1890.—This day will be characterized by a Grand
Civic Parade and interesting opening exercises. The Governors of Georgia, Alabama
and Florida, each with his staff, have been invited and are expected to be present, and
many prominent men of the three Slates will also be present. The afternoon will be
devoted to racing, and will be the opening day of the great Race Meeting of the
Exposition, with notable Running and Trotting Races. Music for this day, as well as
during the entire Exposition, will be furnished by four Brass Bands—chief of which
will be the celebrated Fourth Artillery United States Army Band, from Washington
City.
Grand display of 60 Trained Shetland Ponies, driven by ehildren of prominent
families to four-in-hand Chariots. Miss Myrtie Peek will ride Roman Standing Races
on from two to four horses. The only living woman who has survived this perilous
feat. She will also drive the great two minutes, eight seconds Pacer, Silver Tail, val
ued at $10,000, in a race. A Balloon Ascension and Parachute Leap on this day; and
the finest Aeronaut in the United States will entertain the public by performances <m
a flying trapeze as long as the Balloon remains in sight. When the Balloon reaches
three miles in height, the terrific and perilous Parachute jump will he made by tbs
Aeronaut, through the clouds to the earth; the most wonderful and daring aerial ex
hibits ever offered to the public.
Second Day—“Columbus Day.”
THURSDAY, November 6th, 1890.—This is Colnmbus Day! Merchant, manu
facturer and artisan, from the busy hives of industry of the prosperous city of Colum
bus, Will come forth to welcome their friends from all sections of the Chattahoochee
Valley, and gather at the Exposition Grounds. Every manufacturing establishment
in the city will close on this day, that their employes may enjoy the pleasures offered
at the Exposition. The special attractions will be a Balloon Ascension by a celebrated
aeronaut, who is under contract to rise to the height of three miles, from which alti
tude he will leap to the ground with his Parachute; and in the afternoon trials of Bpeed
by celebrated Trotting and Running Horses. Three superb Races from fine horses that
will notTace on any track except the perfect track at Columbus. Pony fiaees, ridden
and driven by children under ten years. Myrtie Peek will ride a Race against the cele
brated running horse, Longview. Musical concerts all day, and numerous other at
tractions.
I bird Day—“Manufacturers’ Day ”
FRIDAY, November 7th, 1890.—This day the Exposition management have set
apart as Manufacturers’ Day. There will be special exhibits of cotton manufacturing
and other machinery in actual operation upon the grounds. The Boards of Trade of
all prominent cities of the Chattahoochee Valley, by special invitation of the Colum
bus Board of Trade, will be present. The day will be made interesting with Athletic
Games, Bicycle and Horse Racing.
COTTON FROM FIELD TO LOOM.—Cotton will be exhibited on the stalk,
and will be ginned, spun and woven into unexcelled fabrics.
The celebrated Trotting Dog, Doc, from the British Empire, will trot against
horses. He has never been beaten. A desperate attempt will be made by a fleet racer
to beat Doc. The management guarantee no jockeying will be allowed. Come and
see this wonderful race.
A full display by the Peek Combination of Trotting, Banning and Pacing Horses.
Fourth Day—“Editors’ and Children’s Day.”
SATURDAY, November 8th, 1890.—The Editors from ail parts of the Chattahoo
chee Vailey will on this day assemble in the Editors’ Sanctum on Exposition grounds,
and have a free interchange of experiences, etc.
On this day the celebrated Trotting Dog, Doc, will be raced against five ponies,
driven by Columbus boys. The largest living horse, weighing 2,840 pounds, with
32-pound shoes, will be shown. This horse is from Canada, and $5,000 is offered for a
match. There will be Chariot Races between two Chariots of four ponies each—one
driven by a child only five years of age, son of Ben Winslow, of Meriwether county,
Ga., and the other by a girl of seven years. Grand Balloon Ascension and Parachute
Leap on this day. Band Concerts all day.
Fifth Day—“Bicycle Day.” ,
MONDAY, November 10th, 1890.—Racing begins promptly at 10 o'clock a. m.,
and among the contestants will be some of the most celebrated riders in the United
States. Program—1st, One mile, Novice; 2d, Half Mile, Ordinary; open; 3d, Three-
quarter Mile, Safety; open; 4th, One Mile, Ordinary; State Championship; 5th, One
Mile, Safety; handicap; 6th, One Mile, Ordinary; handicap; 7th, One Mile, Safety;
State Championship; 8th, Quarter-mile, Ordinary; open: 9th, Two Miles, Safety; open;
10th, One Mile, Consolation.
In the afternoon there will be two of the finest Races—Pacing and Running—of ,
the season. Chariot Races, Shetland Pony Races. Myrtie Peek’s Combination Dis
plays. •
>ixth Pay—Merchants’ and Drummers Day.
TUESDAY, November 11th, 1890.—This day belongs to the Merchants of the
Chattahoochee Valley, who are especially invited to be present. The Columbus Drum
mers, under the auspices of the Colurdbus Branch of the Southern Travelers’ Associa
tion, will keep open house on “Merchants’ Day,” and every visiting merchant will re
ceive a royal welcome and enjoy just such genuine hospitality as only the boys of the
Queen City of the Chattahoochee know how to extend. The racing and other grand
attractions on this day will be of the best, and every merchant of the Chattahoochee
Valley should honor Columbn9 by his presence on this occasion.
TUESDAY, November 11th, is also “GRANGERS’ DA.Y.”—There will be pres
ent on this day delegates from all parts of the United States, who will stop over in Co
lumbus on their way to the meeting of the United States National Grange, which meets
in Atlanta on the 12th. Officers and prominent members of the National Grange will
deliver addresses in front of the Grand Stand. Many thousand Grangers will be
present.
Tne Poultry and Pigeon and Pet Stock Show, in which 2,000 of the finest birds in
the world will be shown, will open on this day. Competion in this show defied.
Among other ra.:es on this day the Gentlemen’s Roadster Race to carts will be
driven. Peek Combination; Shetland Pony Display; Cattle Display.
’•M-vrtiith Day—‘ ned Men’s IJay”
WEDNESDAY, November 12th, 1890.—Grand Procession of Red Men of Georgia
and Alabama. Speeches by Governor Gordon, Judge Daniel and Col. Graham, Mayor
Dozier, Capt. Slade, J. M. Slaton, and other prominent. Red Men. There will be Trot
ting, Running and Pacing Races for large purses; Balloon Ascension and Parachute
Leap; Chariot Races; Myrtie Peek Combination; Display of Shetland Ponies; Sack
and Wheelbarrow Races. Fire Works at night. The most unique and novel enter;
taiument ever presented at any Exposition will take place on the
evening of the “Red Men’s Day,” November 12th, at which time a theatrical
entertainment will be presented in the circle enclosed by the race track in front of the
Grand Stand, consisting of a representation of Indian life and warfare, and other plays,
in wuich 4.50 performers will take part, assisted by a Grand Pyrotechnic and Electric
Display. On “Red Men’s Day” a cordial invitation is extended to all Red Men to
attend.
'Eighth Day—“Alliance Day ”
THURSDAY, November 13th, 1890.—The Management have selected Thursday,
the 13th day of November, as “Alliance Day,” at which time the Alliances of the
States of Georgia, Alabama and Florida are earnestly invited to attend, individually
and collectively. Presidents Polk, Livingston and McCune are expected to speak to
their Alliance brethren on this day. A special program'will be arranged for this day.
Cattle Display and award of premiums in front of the Grand Stand. There will be the
finest display .of Guernseys, Hoisteins, Devons, Dnrhams, Jerseys and Polled Angus
Cattle ever seen in the South. Night performance by 450 Red Men. Complete change
of program anti Grand Display of Fire Works.
Xiiitu i>a^—“ on federate Yeleraus’
Veterajis*’ R* - Union
FRIDAY. November 14;h, 1890.—Confederate Veterans, survivors of their com-
_ j rades iu arms ot the "Last Cause,” from all quarters of the great States of Georgia,
Alabama and Flsrida, will gather at Exposition Park on this occasion for a reunion.
There will be present great Dumbers, from the private who bore the brunt of the battle
Who rules in this town ? i,,uta ’ — vjavuv»«,.v » v.vy.
Depends on the question up.
The lamp-chimney ques
tion—what sort do you break ?
Whatever sort vour dealer ! to tlle commanding officer who planned and successfully carried it through. Notable
j.. » | Coutenerate Generals and other officers of the late war have signified their intention <ff
deals in. j being present. There will be speakiug and other interesting exercises on this day, and
How, do you think he in the afternoon splendid racing programs will be carried out. On Friday morning
i v • i- ’ * there will be a regular, genuine old-fashioned Fox Chase, during which there will be a
Selects ms Chimneys f number of wild Red Foxes liberated. This promises to be a most exciting scene, for a
He buys those that cost him number of celebrated kennels of fox hounds have already been entered for the
1 a t-. L 3 i i chase. Finest races of the spason on this day; Balloon Ascension and Parchute L
least, lie can get tne regular ; Myrtie Peek Combination; Gattling Gun Drill and Firing.
eap;
price for them; and the faster
they break the more he sells.
That’s how he reasons.
l fell him you want Mac
beth’s “ pearl top ” or “ pearl
glass, ” tough glass, transpar
ent, clear, not foggy, fine, of
Tenth Day—“School Day
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s always succeeds, # ’ ’ 85; ’ ****'~>
accor ling to an adage otherwise expressed. ! right shape and Uniform. Tell
One of his best singers, as well as his best l- ’ll „l- ~ _
actresses, is Miss Minnie Landis. 1 have j ^ * }'OU 11. pay him 3. nickel t J-!
seen her in tlie trying parts of Mignon and more a piece, and that Will
Marguerite, and I cannot find any fault I „ r L.’ rosrii tivirr*
with her. She is a debutante without ex- , CCn er ^ • Cra COStS ? ™ !CG
over. Tell him you don t pro
pose to break any more. Try j Ramd Transportation
your hand at ruling. ^kande<t attraction-:
Pittsburg. GEO. A. llACBETHACO. j
SATURDAY. November 15th, 1890.—This day has been set apart, as a special day
for the attendance of schools and colleges throughout the Chattahoochee Valley. The
Art Department of the Exposition alone will repay any student a journey of a hundred
utiles. On this day will occur a Grand Balloon Ascension and Parachute Jump, and
in 'he aftertax u exciting Pacing and Running Races. The Educational Department
will be a special ittracriori on this day. The Phonograph will he exhibited and ex
plained. The • Lilrl - World” will he on exhibition Sack Races, Wheelbarrow Races,
Horse Races. Mule R i-es, all kinds of fun. Gland Band Concert.
| perience, I am told, except tor a season in
| concert in the South. I wonder if she
sang in Columbus? If so. the Columbus
| people will remember her great, black eyes,
I her chestnut hair, her rich voice, and take
KtILBOAD KATES EVER OFFERED.
Ample Accommodation for. All.
io an i From Exoosition
Park.
best music: fa-test hor-es: flower
niSPJiAl’! fclCYcLhS! BALLOONS! LIKE WOEkS! BfC.