St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-07-01

brothers having gone ahead in the ca.
pacity OF advance agent to bill the show.
His stock of advertising material con-
sisted of a package OF yellow window
hangers, carried In cotton hand
satchel, and about s. worth Of stock
Autographs. done up in shawl strap.
He started ont with S. In cash. which
was to last him until we could make
soma money with the show. and by
means of orders on the company for
hotel bills, and by walking from the de-
fare, he managed to make it last him
about two weeks. Well, when he left
THE PARENTAL ABODE
at about O'Clock of chilly october
morning and took the train for neigh
boring village, fourteen miles distant,
we were perhaps as proud and as new
and green a lot OF showmen as ever csc
sayed to give an entertainment. We
arrived at our first stand at little after
O'Clock and at once proceeded in true
amateur fashion TO see the town before
breakfast. Having satisfied ourselves
that it was vulnerable and could be
captured, we returned to tbs hotel for
breakfast. After breakfast the land
lord showed US to our rooms. l was
about II at the time and not too familiar
lug people 'kiek" at hotels, and sup
posed 1t was quite the proper thing TO
show my aristocratio and artistic
inclination. remember conf
IDENTIFY telling o comm ereial
man that the accommodations
were not very complete, for there were
no combs in the rooms. His hearty
laughter | misconstrued as an act of
coinciding with my opinion, but after.
wards when found the hotels did Lot
provide their
ROOMS WITH COMBS
any more than they did with tooth
brushes, l realized my NAL entendre
and was more cautious thereafter about
committing myself.
But the first day when we paraded
with our little band, and every now and
then would see our yellow window
nounesment that the Ringing
Bros, Chassis and Comic Opera
company would give an en-
tertalnment OF nirth and music,
at the town hall" that night, tell you
our hearts would beat little faster at
the thoughts Of the bold intention, and
l was aware Of kind Of a lump con-
stantly coming into my throat, that
somehow or other could not success
fully swallow. This was about 10
o'clock in the morning, and after dinner
we repaired to the hall and once more
r6hearsed our entire programme. IL
consisted OF Juggling, singing, dancing.
supposedly funny sayings and a con-
Guiding sketch. We did very well at
the rehearsal, but at night 'Ah, at
niKht!' as the serio comics say. We
had about
THIRTEEF-DOLLAR HOUSE,
but the tifty-nine people composing the
audience looked bigger to me than an
audience of 10,0 under our tents does
today. 1t seemed as if every individual
could read our history, would know
that this was our first attempt, and was
ready to guy and laugh at our efforts.
From the very beginning the troupe
in it's entirety seemed to fly to pieces.
Our first number was an Introductory
overture by the orchestra. We all
played in this, and ordinarily seemed
able to render the overture inquite
satisfactory manner, but when we got
before the audience we seemed unable
to play our paris or keep together. 1t
seemed AS IL every note from the cornet
was blue one, every tone from the vio-
lin squeak, every blast Of the ciariODet
shrek. and as If all the different in
struments were in jangle. o. it was
an awful exhibition Of faltering nerve,
and 1t Is u wonder to me that We ever
got through with our debut. After we
had finished our overture we were to
retire from the stage and prepare for
our several acts and specialties. We
were a confused and demoralized lot
when we left the stage.
OUR TREMBLING LIMBS
seemed unable to move without get
ting our feet tangled up with each
other. anu we bumped up against one
another awkwardly. as with bated
breath and faces red with suppressed
excitement and EMBARRASSMENT we