The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-05
BAB'S BRIGHT BABBLE.
SHE GOES 70 A CIRCUS AND TO A
FORTUNE-TELLER

New York's Population at Barnum's.
Why 1t is Good to so to the Circus.
w ere Avery One Fssls Young aad
and Eats Applss and Peanuts-A
woman's Idea OF Nosh's srk-pe-
lights Of Chill hoods Greatest Toy.
Ths Spring limo Fcrtune-Teler-A
Plea for Less Scent-Woman's Esr-
bi-ger Of Spr ng-Ihe joys OF This
World.
NEW York, April 4-The circus has
come to town, and every man. woman and
ghost fees at least twenty years younger,
while every small boy is at least assured
that there is some happiness to be gotten
out Of life. The elephant is as stolid and as
funny-looking as GENERALIZATION has not
added to the length Of his tail or suited it
better to his size; the tigers glare at you
and give you the shivers in a most fetching
way; the lions look as dirty and smell as bad
as formerly; the performing horses and
dogs are as awe-inspiring as they ever
were.
THE INFLUENCE OF THE CIRCUS.
It's marvellous how young the circus does
make you feel. You return 10 your first
ambition. If You are woman, you long
to be the beautiful lady who, wearing short
skirts Of tulle, rides d white horse bareback
and jumps through paper rings like a fairy
at least, as you suppose fairy would do.
Ifyou are q man you don't know whether
you would rather be the clown or the ring
master, with his long whip. but you in-
cline 10 the ringmaster The circus Is the
one place On earth where the rich aud poor
hay Nd fryr hap eli
Providence made them all, aud Bsrnum
achieved the circus, at which the
laugh OF the beggar is as
keen as that of the millionaire; and
the lion and the elephant gaze with equal
complacency on velvet or rags, provided
both are accompanied with an apple. You
don't get one bit more pleasure out Of the
riding, or the ponies. or the dogs, or the
trapeze performers if you are in box than
does the poorest ragamuffin on one of the
highest seats. Talk aolut the odors of
Arabdyl They are simply nowhere beside
that of the sawdlst. While, il you are a
real human being, the blood dances in your
veins, your eyes feel as IL you wanted TO see
everything at once. and your heart gives a
great throb Of ecstasy when the first crack
OF the rlngmAster's whip is heard.
A FEAST OF APPLES AND PEANUTS.
regard the circus as great moral factor
y. L
opinion / have every small boy and every
large boy in the U tied States One great
JOY OF the circus is that you can eat All
the men who have studied Arabic, and
know the secret Of the sphinx and wo Z
tell it, are yet unable TO explain the reason
why sawd st gives an appetite; but you
can consume peanuts by the quart, apples
by the d zen, and the most dried-up sponge
cakes you ever saw are eaten as If they had
been fresh and dainty aud Just from the
oven Of the gods. For myself. l draw the
line at uint-sticks; but, once within the
odor Of the sawdust and the animals, feel
like calling out, "Give me liber TO eat, or
give me deathm genera al y get the liberty
to eat-at least. always have.
WHY Is TIRE CIRCUS EDUcATINei
will tell you. You sec there all the
animals that meandered around in the ark,
and you get t. know great deal from the
acrobats about balancing yourself in mo-
ments Of uncertainty, as for instance, when
firmly poised. You learn the value OF a
pleasant manner when you see the most
famous rider in the world kiss her hand and
smile at the boys all over the house, and
then hear the applause that follows: and
you learn how valuable it IS TO DO generous
VIE you circulate among the elephants
distributing apples, for the next elephant,
wide, and gives you the most expansive
grin you ever saw.
NOAH AND THE TURKEY.
In your eerly life did you have an inti-
mate acquaintance with Noah's ark And
IN toe est p puated one you ever see a
turkey! There are ducks, beautiful ducks.
some red, with blue spots on them, and some
brilliant orange dotted in minute way
with puip pie; but never, never, did GU see
turkey. That miserable, dried-up BIZ d
wasn't recognized as worth saving In the
days OF Noah. Without any exception be is
the most tasteless and the ugEe5t east that
ever lived; Noah owed that he was a
man who knew good thing " hen he saw it
when be excluded the turkey from the ark.
However, perhaps he didn't exist in those
days, and be may be the result of civlliza-
ton, 1t has fat cred so many offensive
things. / have always had an idea that
Noah was the sort OF man who would
know how to order diuner.
AwoMAN's IDEA OF NoAH's ARK.
You remember how be looksl Iu anv
well-regulated ark he has on a yellow
frock, while Shem wears a green one and
Ham is radiant in a pink one. He would !
call them In and he would say: Let's |
have a good dinner to-nigtsn And shey
would say: "You order it; you have got |
coed taste;" and they would have little oys-
tiers on the half she'll, turtle soup, oyster |
crabs, chicken livcrs en- brochette, an I'M
derdone duck, green salad with a bit Of
cheese. cup # ccffes; he would drink a
good bottle OF Burgundy during his dinner.
and be would finish up with glass Of cog
nae. Now. moss Of these things were In the
ark. so they didn't have TO 60 to market,
and what they hadn't on board Shem and
Ham could fish for overheard. You see.
there was great deal of forethought about
arranging the ark-it is pity people don't
give as much nowadays to the
possibilities of fats. l don't believe
the boy or girl has had halt
childhood who didn't possess Noahs ark.
Il figured largely In mine, and that is the
reason love it. have seen numerous
b. )thers made sick by their efforts to get
all the sweetness possible out of the Noah
family when the German toy makers put
movable paint on them, and green mouths
and blue ones and tongues of lurid red re-
suited. They never seem TO hurt anybody;
and, please & odnessl do give your baby
such things to play with, and not what are
known as educating toys'-let them
be biissfully ignorant for q little
while, at least. just fancy hearing
one child say to another, az ike
you, Madeline. but can't talk to you, be.
cause my mamma is afraid that you will
have bad effect on my English OF
course, | want children to speak good En-
glish. OF course, / think the only way
for them to learn is to hear it; but when