Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-07-02

that time Bill married the daughter Ah! you
should have seen that poor child trained.
have been told, by those who travelled with the
family, that she was naturally timid She is
considered to-day one Of the most daring
horsewomen in the world. Her courage was
fOgged into her She was whipped up to the
balancing -point-lashed through every posi-.
ton Of classic gracefulness she now assumes
with so much apparent ease. She was pret.
ty little girl, and occasionally there would be
remOnstrances against her fathers cruelty. All
the worse for her, poor child, for then her
mother would snatch up the whip, and cut her
to pieces out of sheer spite ut being interfered
with. often wonder whether Bill Jones keeps
up the system of discipline resorted to by hen
father and mother, from her cradle upward
She must have become so accustomed to it, one
would think, as to feel quite uncomfortable
under any other sort of treatment
And do you mean to say" we asked, "that
all children are taught to be acrobats and
equestians in such a revolving way?n .r,....
=" No, our friend replied "oh, no, Some
like it-haye good nerves, acknowledgements
each Other-and would become excellent Der.
formers, almost without tuition. But they are
the exceptions. Take SignOr Smitherini, fol
instance, and his wonderful sons Did Won
ever see them do the double trspeze, or q
through series of gymnastic eyolutions, "a Ia
Risley.' If yOu knew how their poor little
they had in the morning, Mt the rehearsal You
wouldn't enjoy their extraordinary feats oi
agility and youthful strength half so much as
you do. Bill Jones was awfully hard on his
pupils, He wouldn't even let them practice
on a mattrass. They had to do it in the ring
sometimes in country places, where We coudn'
get saw dust enough to put a layer of three
inches of it on the hard ground. And Heaven
help those luckless boys, when Bill took it into
his head to come and watch them do their les
sons in physical development. | need only tell
you that he was muscular, singularly skillful in
the management Of q whip, and that his pupils
were costumed in the thinnest of shirts and
drawers"
But, perhaps we suggested, "these were
exceptions with which you meet ..
"NO," said our friend; 1--WE changed portions
Of our company, over and over again, during
the Summer; we were engaging and discharg-
ing people all the while, but never saw much
difference amongst them"
And the Talking Horse
g Has sears on him now, to testify to the
brutality of his training"
"And the Intelligent Mastadon?'
Whose size, compared to that Of the horse,
ls not equal to the greater proportion of torture
that he has endured"
'.And Little Angelina, the Fairy Child?"
- Why the last time you saw her she was riding
balky horse Every time the horse changed
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her balance. Her father was ringmaster, and,
rs he saw the danger she was in produce an ex-
preston OF pain upon her face, he"
i'ToOk her away, Of course" said we.
% lie growled at her, between his teeth,
"SmiIe." with an OATH ''smile or L II cut your
(another Oath) legs Off" Ay, and the next time
she involuntarily looked scared again, he did
cut her, too. The audience didn't notice it, but
q member Of the company did, and beard him
relate the story as q good iOkep ~
!" Horrible" cried we. ''But the educ ated
ponies, that we see go through their tricks
with such seemingly good humOr"
"Doyou recOllect rejoined our friend, 'how
enraged you told me you felt, one night, at the
Broadway Theatre, when you saw one Of the
clowns there make a pony kneel down, by
fairly hammering its shins from under it,"
We did recollect
HAnd the audience applauded, eh?"
We nodded.
And they laughed like mad when the ele-
phant shriekedt"
Certainly"
"Do you think, - said our friend, "they
would have laughed so heartily, had they seen
the keeper gOad him in raw wound under the
ear to make him produce that cOuical sound
We were horribly disgusted with the reye-
latiOns we had heard, and beseeched our friend
to postpone the subject.
will, " he assented; shut first tell me, did
you stop tonight to sec Van Amburgh's Me
nsgerie,"
No" answered, II always did object to
that part of the circus business, since read the
Wandering jew, and how Morok used TO tame
his lions and tigers, and his famous black
panther, with red and te-hot irons Surely
such barbarity As that must have had its be-
ing only in the diseased imagination of II
Eugene Sue" ..-..
"Ah! you think that, ell, Well, let me tell
YOU that beasts of sue in,l an be tanned w IN
red hot iron-and with nothing else''
." But you don't mean-" we were about to
exclsim. a-
You asked me to change the subject"
said our friend; 81 will. fell hungry, Let
US have some supper. +...