Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-09-26
The Circus.

OF curse you know that it is an
awful wicked thing to go to circus.
We have all heard OF the dreadful
fate that generally overtakes the boy
who saves his pennies for the circus in
stead of putting them into the contri-
button box TO buy shoes and hats for
the heather. Still, in spite of the fact
that the boys who do that way will
meet with some dreadful end, most OF
those same boys prefer to risk the dan
ger. and see the elephant.
The flaming bills displayed on the
walls, and fences, and on the ends of
country barns, possess for the average
juvenile sort of magic that nothing
else in the world holds for him.
The camelopards as high as house,
and the lions the size of the broadside
Of II barn, and the bareback riders
turning their heels over their heads
and putting their feet in their
mouths, and the trapeze per-
formers hanging by their
toes in mid-air, and jumping through
hoops, are full of attraction for the
boys, and for some of the pre- old
boys, too, if we may judge by the way
they stop and study the advertise
mentS.
The circus is due in hot we Ither. II
comes in about the time that native
green peas and Strawberries do, and il
continues, if we'll nourished. until cool
weather.
1t rakes in Il good many more shek,
els than the gospel temperance meet
ings, forno matter how much afraid OF
the devil the average man is, he will
never invest much money in any
scheme to get rid of HIM.
The circus is preceded by an ocean oil
long, narrow slips of paper, known as
flies" which are thrown into every.
bOdy's yard, and stuck into everybody
door, and about ten thousand of which
sail about the streets and sidewalks o
the town. and strike terror to the
hearts of that noble and intelligent ami
NAL, the horse.
The good moral folks 90 to the cir
Gus, because the children leased then
so that they couldn't get rid of them
| horses, and those who 40 not go fol
that, 60 to hear the music. They
| never go to see Mademoiselle La Fan
dango whirl around twenty-seve,
times on her head, with her sinfu
| heels in the air. Oh. no. no, indeed
But they all stay till she has done i
| twcuty-seven times twenty seven. Oh
this is a curious old world. and Their,
are some peculiar people in it!
The boy who goes in the afternoon
to the circus is an object OF commiser
alton when he sees the boy who is go
ing in the evening on his way. Oh
how he longs for the time when h
shall be man, with unlimited quar-
to no mans control. Then he will g
to the circus every day.
Pity the small boy who has no mon
ey with which to buy ticket. H'
will lie on his stomach for hours peep
ing under the crack at the bottom q
the canvas, for the scanty qualification
of seeing the legs of the performers
and listening to the sonorous crack c
the whip as the ring-master spurs u
the horses, and invigorates the rider
| with some of the stale jokes which !
the stock in trade of the circus.
Well, we always felt sorry that every
thing people enjoyed should be SO nv
fully wicked, and everything that pee
pie hated should be so very proper
but, then, there doesn't seem to be YER
much of anything that we can do abou
it.-Kate Thorn, in New York Weekly