The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
THEYDON'T WEARWIGS
"Becky Sharp Visits Circus Girls
While They Make Up.
ELEPHANTS ARE AFRAID OF NICE.

Granddaughter ef Dan Rice There.
The governor, society, and went to
the circus.
Trammeled as they must have been by
the cares of state and eonvsntionality,
the governor and society could not have
SO enjoyed it as l did craWled under
the tent did it only because 1t was the
near way from the tents where I'd besR
making the acquaintance of Mr.. Wal
lace's 300 horses; and though q rather
startled and somewhat aggressive pair Of
policemen seemed at first Inclined to stop
the crowd which I headed, they gave it
up, either because of our superior num-
bers, or because we were accompanied
by the press representative of the show.
PATSY Forepaugh" has charge of the
menagerie and Is worshipped by every
small boy who ever carried water to the
elephants. Forspaugh's baptismal name
is J. G. Aesgher, but because of his
training with the Forepaughs aud his
twenty-five years experience with ami
mails, he is best known as Patsy Fore
pAugh.
have long wanted to explode the
story that an elephant would remember
from year to year and punish the boy
who gave him something unpalatable,
for to me an elephant looks most unin-
telligent, but PATSY" Forepaugh said:
mo ma'am it is hardly possible
that they remember like that.
but they Go remember keeper for years,
and ara very intelligent animals. These
we're not born in captivity, though the
natives Of India herd and raise elephants
and use them as we do horses as well as
sell them to menageries.
"How old are they? Well, these are
all comparatively young, some of them
not twenty. The one with the large ears
is sixty five They are very much afraid
of mice or rets, and will become unruly
when either are about Thsa they get
crazy like people do. Prince, there, tried
to kill me not long ago.
"We used to always have a trainer ride
IN with the lions and other animals, but
the novelty has worn of somewhat, and
we don't do it any more.
You see that cage of four lions?
Well, that is too full for a trainer to ride
in. If man can sit in the middle of the
cage, and the animals can move around
him without touching him, all right, but
accidental contact will often encourage
them to the dangerous point.
@Then one must he self possessed and
apparently fearless to a degree, and it
takes practice. No, I fear we couldn't
have let you 60 into the lions den under
any circumstances" and he looked at me-
curiously.
two humps, made famous in Ben Hur.'
said q reluctant farewell to Mr..
FOrepaugh and followed Mr.. Harrison to
the dressing tent, where the horses were
already being ranged in the front part
for the grand entrance.
Ths back part was divided into two
rooms with a corridor between them, and
it was into the ladies' dressing room
that I was curious to 20.
Hughes, wife of the manager of the hip
podrome, and herself one of the best
bareback riders.
The room into which she ushered me
was triangular, the round side being
about fifty feet and the other two about
thirty. Ranged around this sat fifteen
women and girls all before trunks, busily
making up for the grand entree.
Mrs Hughes said: Ladies, this is Miss
Sharp, who wants to see circus people
behind the scenes" All of them greeted
me courteously.
hope they will pardon me when I
say that it was q surprise to me to find
them very much like other people. They
are all under thirty aud nice looking,
many of them remarkably pretty.
Just now they are having q merry
time" Mrs. Hughes explained, because
of Sansoni the strong woman having put
hies. Sansoni speaks German, French
and some other languages, but we are
just teaching her English She seems
TO learn our little tricks and Jokes on
each other as quickly as anyone else"
when the dressing tent is pitched"
said Mrs Hughes, "our trunks are set in
place and it is always the same place &C
cording to number for the whole season."
First in the row sits Mamie Fisher
hn "a NlVFh
husband Ia the large trapezs performer"
"Young?
60 yes, We are all under thirty.
Why should we look old we take good
care of ourselves and our exercise is
most beneficial
DO we read? Yes Almost anything
from Shakespeare to Trilby."
Eta Martin the smaller of the pair of
cOntortionists is quite pretty out of the
ring. Her companion, Anne Dare, is
also plump pretty girl Mrs. Powers,
who does the bicycle turn with her hus-
hand and his brothers, tells me that she
has little four year old girl at home in
New York city.
Blanche Reed as she Is known in the
bills is proud of the fact that she Is the
granddaughter of the veteran Snowman
Dan Rice and is q bare back rider BY in
stinct She il Mrs, McCrea in real life
NSAb 70 Bliss hSS0 II HISS Louie Ay-
mar OF the famous Aymar family of rid
era Miss Aymar has just come in from
taking supper with MIRA Sells Greenspan,
with whom she once travelled.
Il does not take her long to make up.as
her hair is naturally curly. Circus per
formers don't wear wizL
But the second overture has sounded
and she girls are emerging from a more
or less ohrysalis state of en- deshabiIls to
Ful1 Ha61ad 1iuaaI
A wild scramble ensuos as somebody
cries snail man" and for few moments
everything is left for letters
Their world is like our world, not SO
bad as We sometimes make it
BECKY SHARP.
GauIt House In SherfH-s Handa.
CHIcAao July 4-Tha shariff last ninhA