The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-08-30

"Old your 'osses Look bout for your
'osses, and the parade has passed.
THEN begins the rush to the show
- grounds. People q distance from
home buy lunch or dinner at bakery and
-. grown people and giris--who live In
town rush home and bolt a dinner. but
the small boy takes no chances He saves
MS appetite and sticks to the show. Long
whine OF the side-show hand-organ and
bear the voice Of the spieler at the side
show door. sTen cents, oue dime. Remam-
her. ladies' and gentlemen, It viii be over
an hour before the performance in the hig
tent commences. The show inside Is tu1f
going 10 begin. We have everything we
represent to show you as pictured on the
outside. etc, waving his hand toward q
long line OF the worst pictures ever paint
ed by man. Every picture II at least fifty
years old. some Of them hundred. You
have seen scores and scores Of tines
maybe. the very same pictures. and may
be Others just like them. for side-snow
PICTURES are always alike and always .ave
been. First. there is the Wild girl Of soms
land not down on any map. with q head
shaped on top like church steeple finger
ana t0c-nalis as long as q mandarin's, and
sangs The spieier tells Of her capture
a1ter Killing dozen or so OF her pursuers
Next u tae boa constructor, red under
meath with yellow and black stripes on
top, dotted here and there with blue spots,
ana mouth that measures az pictured
open four feet from tip Of jaw to tip.
This snake IL somewhere about q hundred
feet long. as big around as q hogshead.
ana is inside waiting the command OF the
beautiful snake charmer. who couldn't lift
IL "a y the snake was half ~ big a. the
And then-but you've seen them all; saw
them FIRST years and years ago. and nsfiy-
cred cred that nighf In bed when you remem-
The sp.eler at the side-show Yesterday
played cunning dodge to draw trade. and
az It was new one II 10 worthy OF men
ton. we have the tallest. the smallest,
sre . latest, the Ieaness the largest people
snow you. Here. ask the little lady 10
step out 10 the door. You'll have &, come
close, See her? She's only 81 inches high.
1sn sne small! Go In. now. What?
Couldn't get close enough TO see her well.
I'm sorry, madam. bur she's % little
lots or room inside One dime ten cents"
ana the woman that couldn't see. and two
or tnfee hundred more went inside to see
the lady. Then the little man was shown
70 those who could get close enough. and
then the snake charmer came out yffh
some eight or ten feet Of cold. clammy.
creeping snake wound about her. and the
ePeier said THAT Is her smallest snake
Her largest snake Is pictured over Tiers.
exact sixc.'' etc.
N the menagerie all interest conferred
= around the cage OF the figress and her
lMo tiny kittens. about three months old
Inc kittens were mere balls OF black
striped yellow fur. and they waddled about
tac cage much the same as the kittens az
the domestic cat go about the house. Not
SO with the mother. The great beast was
As savage as only n wild animal rearing
It's young can be, and the attendants rirna
ana time again warned people not to 40 too
near the cage.
" HAT a great ieveler Is the c,reus
~ LOOKING around al the hundreds
very edge OF the tent roof. all sorts
Kinds ana coiors OF people were wedgcd
IA beside one another. Here sat a lndv
whose nsighhor was the woman who
washes the front windows for her. Next
came wel!-to~do Capitalist. and beside
MIN the man who CURES his horse in the
livery stable where he KEEPS H. a few
geod-natured Chinese was cheek by tnyv1
WITH eewhlskered German OF the Herr
MOST type and coal black darby. dis
Everybody was smiling or Laughing, and
nobody had time for anything but the
circus, and the Mongolians tee hee blend
ca WIN the cultural haw. haw OF The
the Chinese must go. while the darky's
whole-soulei yah. YAH mingled with
the lfishman's mirth. II was clever
performance and hugely enjoyed
gilt and srangies and colors were even
brighter than In the sunshine and fairy
land WAS moved earthwfse for an hour
The circus has come and gone. Every
body Was glad To see IL come and Il will
be Just as welcome next year and the
year after. and fer many. many years
20 come. so long as there ara children
and grown folk To SO and see II.