Evening journal., 1901-05-03

more than once, as she did the ether
night. when her nose-bleed was bad
enough to have made any other girl
feel that turning somersaults was little
short of self-destruction. you cannot
help seeing the mother.
Then too there Is another reason
why circus folks are good They have
TO keep their nerve. IL is their capital
stock. A man who drinks may be as
brilliant the night after he has been
drunk as he was the night before. But
after he has been drunk two or three
times he is not the same man at all
He cannot afford to let an appetite for
drink become acquainted with him
Take Minting for instance, the man
who rides a monocycle up a spiral to
the roof OF the Garden and then crosses
a narrow plank from one end OF the
Garden roof to the other Where
would he be II he had a shaky minute
1t is almost impossible to understand
how he can do such thing with all
the nerve in the world. He has on his
| forhead to-day the scar that was left
there by a fall he had ten years ago
when he was riding q high wheel not
a mOnocycle. The circus performer.
during the season at any rate.
Is always just as much in training as
is the college athlete preparing for
athletic games.
For another thing. the constant
/ strenuous life which circus folks lead
Is conducive 10 healthy thinking. They
work ont their wickedness. They get
high salaries and there is always a
chance that they can get more by in
i venting new and difficult stunts
/ Their minds are on their profession all
day long and they are about as well
safeguarded at night as any people
could be. There are few secrets posi-
bic in a circus family"
, There Is one moment in the circus
performance when there are on view
such exhibits of the domesticity OF
circus life as would be almost incred
r ible without satisfactory confederation
They are the Devines who ride in tn,
5 Western ring in display number IA
and the Correas, who ride at the othel
Z end OF the arena at the same time
] Mrs Devine is the lady who, in all thl
glory OF a ball dress springs to he
S husbands shoulders and poses there II
s picturesque attitude while he stand
D on the back of a galloping horse A
= has been said, there are mighty feY
[ secrets In circus. And IL Is the com
[ mon gossip of the wardrobe and dinin
a room tents that the Devines ar
/ rather more "spOony" now than the
!. were when they were married man
o years ago Certainly they have scan
s time for looking at other folks or talh
t ing to other people.
t The Correas have two little children
e In New York under the Gerry law tn
1t children are "deadwood" But on tn
n road they are allowed to do enough /
n clear them of the rule. No sooner
the circus dinner over than the Coz
IS reas hurry on to their car with th
Il babies and make them sit up straigl
/ and study their lessons. From Dime
IS until dressing time those youngsteI
n say their A 3 Cs with an assiduity tina
: might well be emulated by the childre
s of some OF the folks who are prone [
= smile rather incredulOusly when tn
II possibility Of morality in the circus
under discussion.
r On the whole circus life may 4
:. rough. and It is often extremely impC
n lite. But It isn't naughty, tarlata
v skirts and tights and airy kisses at tn
/. top row of benches to the contrary no
d withstanding