Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-06-03
Spalding & Rogers Three Circuses.

The homciy adagc "all work and no play
makes Jack duh boy" deserves to be kept
more prominently before the American PEG
pie. since it has become subject Of remark
in both hemisphercs, that tn physique of
Americans is becoming 3,teriorated by too
excessive attention to business. The mos,
cursory observer ia compelled to notice the
difference between our Transatlantic neigh
bors and ourselves. attributable solely to our
absorbing application to money making.
while the Englishman mingles relaxation
and exercise with his business indulging i'll
variety of - astic exercises, to keep up
an equilibrium between the mental and
physical functions. Fortunately nature has
impaired in the human breast desire to be
amused rs indelibly as the instinct of self
preservation, and both with THE same tend
cncv To lengthen life, but unfortunately the
sources OF amusement amongst a people so
cnurnssei with business cares as our own
are apparently limi,ed-apparently We say.
since every family and every community
have within themselves abundant material
for healthful and innocent amusement. If
only they would avail themselves Of it
since. however. they do not, the public mind
naturally turns to public entertainments.
for the recreation and relaxation indispensi-
BILE in this age of business crres. The Circus
has been to all classes and ages the popular
American amusement, but uuhappily. al
though in itself entirely uneXceptionable,
and probably the best adapted ofall to pro
mote entire relaxation. the indiscretion and
incompeteney of managers have sometimes
brought it into reproach
We are happy obe able to anticipate that
in the triple establishment of Messrs Spald
ing & Rogers, which is announced to be heI .
next Tuesday, we are to have an entertain
nent Of this kind, not only of greater novel
" and extent than has yet been afforded us
in this line. but also one eneirely unexcep
tionable. The high reputation Of the cele
brated proprietors. aside from the corobor-
ate testimony of all our exchanges on their
route. is guaranty of this.
We do not value the great eclat that ac
companies this mammoth concern, its un-
paralleled size from the combination of the
three companies of the proprietors into one
vast whole, its three troupes Of Riders,
Gymnasts and Clowns. its triple stud of
Ring. Trick and Performing Horses, its
huge forty horse band train driven by one
man, the startling feat of ascending from
the ground on slender wire extended at
great heiSHt 10 the Top oi Ine center pole,
by lady, who must have more courage than
discretion and the score Of other remarka-
BILE features characterizing Spalding 4 Ro-
gers three circuses, and which will doubtless
produce great excitement here, az it is doing
| everywhere. We do not consider all this
as anything comparable with the fact that
in the names of these gentlemen We have
IN assurance that the entertainments will be
| such as ladies and children can witness with
propriety. and Of that high order that will
have tendency, aside from the passing
pleasure, Of intoxicating a taste for grace and
the development Of the corporal faculties
Messrs SpAlding 4 Rogers are probably
the most prominent circus proprietors in the
world. the builders of the celebrated exAai-
bition steamers Floating Palace, James Ray
mond and Banjo, on the Ohio and Mississip-
| pi rivers, and Of train Of roilroad cars Of
| their own, with many remarkable peculiar
titles, for the transportation Of two Of their
companies-one by water and the other by
railrosd-and also Of the North American
| Circus. an especial favorite in New York and
New England, and which was West in ls4s,
besides Amphitheaters in different parts Of
Of the country. The extent Of their pro-
,jects requires systsm end they have reduced
The management % methud MT IL admire
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