The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-11

agape with admiration before another, no more
beautiful or rare or remarkable, is q thing which
q philosopher might explain, but n circus man
can't. Yet 80 it is.
OF all tho exhibits the most popular and the
most coveted is Great Peter, tho midget. who is
said to weigh but 6la pounds. On the afternoon
when THE Sun reporter visited tho show Great
Peter was surrounded by q phalanx of juvenile
admirers that blocked the passage, and only the
diplomacy and at times the agility OF the elders
whom the children had with them prevented
him from being carried off a hundred times.
That's the littlest boy in the world" n small
and fluffy girl informed her attendant maid.
I'm awful glad 1 ain't that small. d you
know whyf Cause when I was hungry 1
couldn't cat near enough IL l was that little. I
couldn't hold it."
Another spectator, still younger, strenuously
demanded that Great Peter, who she referred to
as 1t this seems to be q prevailing juvenile
habit, by the way, with regard to both the mid
get and the Giantessl. should Immediately BIO
handed over to her for a dolly"
But you've got plenty of nice dollies at
home said patcrfamilias soothingly. "A great
deal bigger than this one. too"
Just here Great Peter lit q cigarette half as
large as himself and proceeded TO smoke It..
MY dollies can't 20 puff.puti,' observed the
s small girl with a spi Il for u J WHilins note in her
father: iii S9y You a new dSiiy' like tIhfls,"
old dollies any more. Nasty fngsl Frow m
away! i wa,a:a-an't it. Boo.hoo-hoo-oo-oo!'
Gr Maa P Ps ,n' s MiiSRinlE WinEed at ono lCe q the S" al,
tcndants with a deeply Immoral wink. which
said as plainly as words that its perpetrator
received a severe shock from the remark OF a
ten.ycar.year old young person, who said TO him
I'm glad i'm not your mamma. What a lot
OF trouble she must. have when you get lost.
Licking nna nfsc for y ifE. al ih through pa , fhS s sSas1 Non d Sn re 8
All OF which disguised Great Peter much, for
world. Few Of the little ones go by Ella Ewing.
the g~iantess, without stopping to inspect her. al.
though she Is natnraily not IN such demand
This one isn't half as much bigger as tho
other one is smaller" was the comparison made
One small boy, in charge of 2 clean,shayen
personally conducted through a circus. was
very much taken with Miss Ewing
. r cd1s. * at =. it -r5 Tn sn, TSm MAN he s, pinned I 10 In III It
but his cicerone wouldn't have it.
Read me what it says about It," he de-
"sh wally; don't talk SO loud. 1t says that
she's Miss Ella Ewing, the tallest woman on
s sint 10 s sH,d b 9nS yonmS man .b In "a Io Sai i91 her Fs !i,';
You must be polite"
"Ididn't mean anything. It-she's SO awful
Observed: I've read about you in u story
book; 1t said you ate little.
boo ont pull on my arm, Uncle Tom. You're
hnrt,n. me; say son GHwd Il you bs tl NIKE 70 marty Ru =
here his hypothetical questions were rudcly cut
short by a savage threat thnt he would be taken
Then I'd come back here an I'd get it to
spank you, retortcd the youngster as he was
led away. An / bet she could do ii, too
Johanna Is another source OF never-failing in
terest. Her tricks arc observed with delight by
a constantly replenished circle OF admirers; most
OF whom would like 10 go in and shake hands
with her. This they are not permitted to do. be:
cause her keeper thinks that the death rate Of
next best thing, which is to get as near as posi-
BILE and talk to her; Occasionally the big CHM
psanzee condescends to notice them, whereupon
criticism heard on her was from n very ~stylishly
dressed little maid, who said commisGratingly:
mine you'll look ~prettier."
Johanna which held a circle OF listeners quite
rive used to have a washerwoman, and she
Tuesdays and wash, and she was u real nice
washwoman. One day the butchers hoy came
lie said: Hello, Johanna. When did you leave
the Park T. And l guess her name wasn't Jo-
hanna ma Ct al hii' b for she ncrI got hoS sIT r Ky m Rni and Sh ,h lust
~ " - ~ ~ ''N 800 $3.50 nv
him into the tub. The water was real hot. too.
When he got out he broke a lot of dishes and the
took him away, Now there's a new butcher
boy comes to our house"
lie ought TO ret that little ono IN the show
hnnna's Keeper. "sheed draw"
There was one here the other day replied
black nanny, and cried because she'd grown
Many Of the small visitors said "Good.by" to
the phimDanZpn IA thew went. which was more
than they did to the midget or the ginntcss;
" said good,by to her ElcetniiN rciharkeda
away, i" an she looked nj ME an ,wlnk with her
eye, saw her in Central Park last year an,
Don't bleeve it, said another juvenile, pre-
sumnbly jealous because he had not been
favored with a wunk. and oniy the i1teIposition
vented hostiliticst then and there.
One small hour Is a mcagrc and unsatisfying
OF tho civilized and unciyilized world; and ( was
with many backward, Chances that the children
troopod upstairs at the stroke Of two that they
stages. and arena. Here, when all were seated.
the Dreponderance, OF the youngsters over their
elders was particularly noticeable. IL was only
here and there that the head and shoulders OF a
full-grown projected above the mass of eager
were viewed In comparative silence: long drawn
Ah-h-h his! and Oo-oo-oohs! attcsting TO the alb
%sorption OF the spectators. Only now and then
some particularly excited critic. For instance,
when the first trGpeze man came plunging down
through a sheer forty feet of atmosphere to the
net the thrill OF his drop was emphasized by a
shrill treble sOlo:. 80
"Ow! He's falling down.
The flying mid air exploits OF the Silbons par.
ticnlarly excited the admiration OF "A small box
holder In front OF THE sun man,
"They do 1t Just as easy!' said this youngster
to a man whom he had apparently invited to
share his box. I'm going to try IL on our
clothes horse with Jimmy White"
'Suppose you miss when you do the flying
leap" suggested the man. -,
"Oh, amt going to do that, part. Jimmyu
do the Leap: II III b Lang G 1S nv my ,a knees q = an ana : eaten cater
fall. Even II / miss Jimmy l guess 1t wont
hurt him much. The grass in our back yard Is
nice and soft"
Every yOunester in the building seemed to
wake UP and lend his voice to the occasion when
the brindic bulldog came on to play football.
They sdi!urs.d him to a %chSSe il aS GP;" yo Ms Nc 'e sni
III" "Hooray! Fall on the ball. Hit It =
good one I and at Times they almost drowned
created great enthusiasm. and the pony who
races against a horse was wildly cheered when
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