Life — December 1, 1900 — page 13: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The Five Senses. A Christmas Extravaganza. Mr. Harkins, a modest and unassuming man, bad been read- ing of the Christmas Extravaganza, “ The Five Senses,” playing at one of tho theatres, Impressed by the imaginative possibilities of the thoughts thus suggested, he was wondering, drowsily, if he might with propriety attend the performance the follow- ing evening, when a strange being appeared and offered to show him the five senses as never before dreamt of. He reluctantly consented, and they thereupon proceeded to an adjoining room and ho tested the first. TASTING. Such a banquot, such surroundings, and such a strango and beautiful hostess! Ho had onco read the “Arabian Nights,” but this excelled anything ho bad found in that book. Involun- tarily ho lifted his glass in response to the beautiful being who stood before him, And then it was not etrange, when his palate had been so wondrously satisfed, that his other senses began to reel, and ho accepted the change of scene that followed without question —it was an introduction to the next sonse.