San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-27
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 81. 1896
OUR OWN CIRCUS.

The circus under the tent is a big
thing, but the circus outside the
canvas is bigger.
The circus under the canvas
strikes tents every day, but the cir
Gus outside never "folds up its tent
like the. Arabs and silently steals
away"
The circus under the tent gives
the same performance almost with.
out variation, month in and month
out, with the same old animals,
just as they came out OF Noah's
ark, but the outside circus never
gives two performances alike, the
animals are constantly changed
and the monkey cage is ever new.
You pay your way into the can
vas tent, creep under, take reserve
seat, just as you like, but there is
no admission fee to the outside cir
Gus, and yet it costs money and lots
OF it, all the same.
1t may be in saloon, or city
hall, or court house, or in print
ing room, or in church, or on the
street, at home or abroad, by night
or by day, but it goes on all the
same, and the people pay for it.
Society, fashio4 able and prudish,
and pious and kypocritical, turns
up its nose at the circus, but the
circus is not in 1t with society for
.-&se holy show it makes OF itself
ON TOO many OCCASIONS.
There are clown in boomers,
and women in tig Its, and all Of
them painted, and the ringmaster
cracking his whiH and the aero
bats tumbling, a hd the horses
prancing, and mus c, and monkeys,
and bears, and Elephants, and
camels, and tigers) and weasels,
and leopards, and fackasses, and
laughing hyenas in the big circus
outside the tent, Just as truly as
under the canvas.
1t is not the man who is dressed
the SWEETEST and cracks his whip
the loudest in the ring that does
the business and attracts the
crowds, and 1t is just the same out
side the tent as it is inside.
1t is too true that, in the great
big circus of the world as we'll as
in the circus under the tent, it
is the clown who gets the most
attention of the crowd. All clowns
are not painted and wear boomers,
Some OF the outside clowns are
dressed like the circus ringmaster.
Watch the animals that come
. into the circus parade, how know
ingly they act, just as if you only
had to pull the string and they
would do the rest. Just so in the
world circus, the animals are on
parade, each Of them doing its
perfunctory part. All you have tc
do is to pull your string and the
regulation act will follow.
The elephant is the most pom
derous animal in the show and one
of the wisest, but the average mar
and woman will tarry longer al
the monkey cage than with hero
of elephants. Just so in the big
ger circus of humanity, the mon.
key cage is the great attraction.
1t is well for the preachers anC
the deacons and the church mem
bers to attend the circus to learr
the ways of that att raction, fol
there is a great deal to be learned
under a circus tent, but it is no
necessary to turn the church into
circus, as is often done, just Il
draw crowd.
This is Sunday, and Of course il
is wrong to think circus or act cir
Gus or to talk circus, but the circus
goes on all the same and this day
the principal actors are dressed in
sober black and DO their turn with
out a suspicion - =
varnish OF the + &
Rxpugh.