The record-union., 1893-11-15
REVIEWS EvBRYBoDYs YOUTH
The Circus and Its Glittering and Un.
approachable Delights.

The Circus and It's Glittering and Un-
approachable Delights.
Where is the man or woman who does
not rejoice in the advent OF the circus and
whose youth is not renewed at the mere
thought of all its pomp and glitter? asks
the Kansas City journal. When the
pasty gentlemen Of the literary depart
ment have emblazoned the walls and
fences with those highly colored, but per-
fectly truthful, representations OF the
manifold wonders of the show. even the
wisest of us cannot refrain from passing
glance. There we behold behemoth in his
lair and leviathan dispOrting in the
yeasty waves, showing large crimson
mouth of phenomenal proportions. Rows
of elephants are depicted, whose per-
spective extends to the dimest distance,
and the fierce Numidian lion and the
roval Bengal tiger. with ever so many
stripes around his body, are limned with
startling fidelity. Here the daring en-
press of the air is seen darting like an
arrow from the giddy hight of the flying
trapeze, and yonder the ill-fated Mazeppa.
bound TO the fiery untamed steed, Is pur-
sued by ferocious wolves across the desc
late steppes of Siberia All OF these
things, we are told, and many others still
more wonderful, are to be seen in one
colossal aggregation brought together at a
fabulous expense and exceeding IN It's
vast entirety all other rival institutions IN
the world put together. Therefore we
resolve to go-for the childreD's sake.
And when the band strikes up for the
grand entree and the glittering cavalcade
enters we feel sure that it would discount
anything that Haroun AlRaschild ever
saw in his palmiest days. Elephants
with stately step and waving proboscl
lead the van, followed by shining pro-
cession of valorous knights clad in COM
I,
Rrrayed in beaming smiles and dlapha-
nous skirts, swarthy sons of Araby the
blest, leading camels of detected air and
supercilious curl Of the neither lip, fol-
lowed by Roman charioteers, North
American Indians. the wild, fierce Cos
sack warriors of the Car, and-the
clown. What matter If the jokes of the
latter individual were first heard at the
Circus MaXimuS? We laugh none the
less heartily at them, and when a cynical
and morOse individual at our side sug-
gests that the wonderful spotted horse is
due in a large measure to hair dye we
repel his insinuation with contumely and
scorn.
Such is the spell cast over us by the
Glamor of the scene that when we recog-
nize in Ibu Muley Hassan, the intrepid
horseman from the desert of the Sahara,
our old schoolmate Hank Smith OF Pike
County, we see no incongruity thereby,
and only admire mis- skill inI hurting the
jereed and his ready mastery of the
Arabic as he fiercely shouts Allah, il
Allah! Our charity covers all as with a
mantle. When the lofty six-barred
hurdle is deftly lowered to the ground
just at the critical moment that the gently
ambling horse bearing the queen of the
menage may clear it without danger to
either, we feel no Indignation thereat, but
join IN the plaudits to the dashing eques-
trienne with hearty good will, Nay, such
is our forbearance that when the steam
calliope plays after the BalP' in series
of disconnected locomotive toots we har-
bor no resentment, but look upon the en-
gineer as born brother and only sue
cessor of Euterpe herself.
Long live the circus, the peoples fete
day! where high and low meet together
on a common plane; where the faker
floUrishes like green bay tree. and
where the wise and the simple are hum
bugged alike.