Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-29
The Circus.
Kate Thorn in New York Weekly.

Kate Thorn in New York Weekly.
or course you know that it is an awfu
wicked thing to go TO a circus.
We have all heard of the dreadful fate
that overtakes the boy who saves his pen
Dies for the circus instead of putting them
into the contribution 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 danger
and see the elephant
Tue flaming bills displayed on the walls,
and fences, and on the ends of country
barns, possess for the average juvenile a
sort OF magic that nothing else in the
world holds for him.
The cameiopards as high as house,
and the lions the sz5 OF the broadslde OF
q barn, and the bareback riders turning
their heels over their heads and putting
their feet In their mouths, and the trapeze
performers hanging by their toes in mid
air, and jumping through hoope, are fail
Of attraction for the boys, and for some OF
the pretty o d boys, too, If we may Judge
by the way they stop and study the adyer-
tisements.
The circus il due in hot weather. It
comes in about the time that native green
peas and Strawberries 60, and II CONTINUES
if well nUurished, until cool weather.
II rakes IN good many more shekels
THAI the temperance meetings, for no
matter nov much afraid of the devil the
average man is, he will never invest much
money in any scheme To get rid aim.
The circus is preceded by an ocean OF
long, narrow slips of paper, known az
flies" which are thrown INTO every body's
yard, and stuck into everybody's door,
and about ten thousand of viii h sail
about ire streets and sidewalks of the
town, and strike terror to the hearts of
that noble and intelligent animal, the
horse.
The good moral folks go to the circus
beoause the children leased them so that
they couldn't get rid OF tn sm, and they so
TO see the animals and tie horses, and
those who do not 20 for that, 20 to hear
the music. They never go t. see MAIDEN
oiselle La FandaugO whirl around twenty
seven times on he, head, with her sinful
heels in the air. On, no no, indeed Bot
they all stay till she has done 1t twenty
seven times taenty-sevep. On, this Is
curious old worlj, and there are some
peculiar peop'einii!
Inc coy VINO goes Ia the aibothINb ~
the circus is an object Of commiserati0n
when be sees the boy Who Is going " he
evening on his way. On, how he longs
for the time when he shall be man, with
unlimited quarters and halves Of his own,
and subject to no mans control. Then be
will 20 70 the circus every daY.
Pity the small boy who has no money
with which "a buy tickat He will lie
on his stomach for hours peeping under
the crack at he bottom OF the canvas, for
The scsnt qualification OF seeing the leg-
OF the performers, and listening to the
sonorous crack of the whip Is the ring
master spnrs up the horses, aud inV'go-
rates the rideie with some Of the stale
Jokes winch il the stock in trsIe OF the
circus.
Well, We always felt sorry that every
thing people enjoyed shond be 80 Wloked,
and everything that people hated should
be so very proper; but then, there doesn't
seem to be very much Of anything that We
can DO about It.