Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-24
Of the Folks Who Go to Circusss. From the Winsted Press.

From the Winsted Press.l
 The circus will be here bright and early Thursday morning and it will be patronized by the same people to all appearances as those who went to circus last year and the year before and the year before that, for a circus has it's constituency that apparently never changes either the manner of it's com ing or it's habit when it comes All the boys from around on the farms will be here, some bald-headed and some gray, the colored pop ulation will swarm, the woman with tired little baby will be on hand early and the young man with linen duster and cigar will walk up and down. There will be around the tent that peculiar circus flavor of crushed grass and tobacco smoke without which a circus would be only show and not visita- tion of the gods. And there will be brigade of desperate looking men with woolen shirts and slouched hats lying out around the tent. Indefatigable side showmen before their hideous pictures and Tapping canvas will bawl to the accompaniment of an invisible hand organ Right this way, gentlemen only ten cents to see the great collection of living curiosities-plenty of time before the big show opens-only ten cents-just one dime-this way to the great museum of nat ural wonders, and so on. Close by, too, will be the stand of lemonade and peanuts ice cool lemonade, so called, without which circus would be delusion and a snare-and packages of candy with Ia prize in every package-remember you get prize in every package-'' and such prizei The big box on wagon with heavy white wheels more or less sunk into the soft turf-same wagon, wheels, box and all we saw when very little boy-wil open upon crowd of men push ing each other this way and that in desper- ate struggle for tickets as if the show were likely to be over and of any minute. Then the great tent will swallow them up, men, women, children and dogs, and the growls of wild beasts with indescribable odors will as- cend to heaven while the elephant stops eat ing his hay and reaches for peanuts and ap- ples and sometimes @ quid of tobacco.
 It needs no prophet to tell how it will all be, for as it has been from time inmemoria1 so 1t will be for ages to come. Inside the lofty canvas of the great tent where the ring is where the clown will be, and where no unco' gud man or woman would ever go we suppose if it wasn't to let the children see (careless alike of spangles and brass bugles, and only there Ito see the animals'') will be again the same odor of crushed grass and to- bacco, more prize packages, peanuts and so- called lemonade, the skipping of boards to- gether as people mount to the topmost seats, and waving of innumerable fans. Down on the grass near the ring will promenade some very funny young men, smoking and a trihe tipsy. We will bet five dol lars they'll be there for they always have been at every circus we ever attended, and we have been 8 constant attendant of circuses ever since we could stand alone. In due time the band will play selection of all the miserable old worn out melodies that can be strung together at reasonable length in that nightmare of musical horrors called ttmed- ley," and after sufficient time has elapsed for all the people in the seats above to have thoroughly wiped the toes of their boots on the clothing of the people in the seat below and so on from the top to the bottom of this mass of speckled and streaked, munching and chattering humanity called an audience-after the masculine legs are as 8 rule dangling, aching and exhausted, down between the seats and after the tired little