The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-17

Atlanta society is going to make a two
ring show of itself during the exposition.
This is literally as well as figuratively
true. The Four Hundred Of the capital
city are going to run a circus for a limited
number of performances, ana swell So
ciety will furnish the majority of the per-
formers. including the airy fairy person
age whom the Atlanta Constitution de-
scribes as the beautiful bareback female
rider" Presumably it is a beautiful fe-
male (meaning woman) who will ride
bareback horse; stiIl it may be that the
salient feature Of the performance is GER
rectly indicated in our contemporaries de-
scription. quoted above. If the circus
were TO be held elsewhere than at the
Atlanta exposition there would be no ele-
ment Of doubt about it. But when So
ciety takes hold of anything. and the thing
taken hold of is of and for Atlanta, it is
not safe to take precedent for a meas
ure. If society were to do things like COM
mon folks. why. it wouldn't be society.
Besides the society performers who will
be connected with the circus. there will be
engaged a limited number of people who
are professional freaks, acrobats and the
like. They are wanted for the purpose
of giving flavor TO the affair. They are to
be the onions and garlic of the social ra-
govt. Taken individually they are highly
Objectionable to refined sensibilities; but
in small quantities. and mixed with de-
lectable tit-bits of social flesh. they give
zest to the whole. The professionals will
stand upon each others shoulders
in various brother acts" which it will
be recognized the social element could not
do seeing that most of the society folks
to be in the show will be of the gentler
sex. The professionals will also "tote
grub to the bear" which emphatically is
not within the province of society.
But no professional circus people will
be permitted to handle the finances of the
circus-that is, II the managers OF the con-
Germ know what they are up to, and it is
to be supposed that they do. The average
society woman with something to sell can
beat circus fakir and book agent roll
ed into one at getting an extraordinary
price for it. This fact is indelibly i'm
pressed upon the mind of every man who
ever attended a charity fair at which So
ciety women were in charge of bazars. a
society woman can charge and receive s.
| for a five-cent bunch Of violets without
ever turning hair. and she can with the
| greatest ease forget to give back the
change for a SO bill after taking out the
price Of a twenty-five cents pen wiper We
do not mean TO say the society circus at
Atlanta will be run upon any such plan;
we do not believe that it viii, and merely
mention the foregoing to show thatathe
average society woman is fully competent
to do circus financiering without any pro-
fessional help.
! There win be a menagerie attached to
! the society circus. 1t will be filled, so il
is said, with an interesting and instruc-
tive collection. The dodo, the dude and
the dog-faced boy will be shown in cages.
There will be exhibited also an anthro.
biological study which might be entitled,
Did They Ascend. or Descend. From the
Monkey" The figures for the study will
not be. in cages, but will be attired in
clothes supposed TO be cut after the Lon
don fashions. and viii carry monocles and
canes Upon the whole. the circus ought
to be a greater success than the bull
fights.