The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-14
CIRCUS FOR THE CHILDREN
HUNDREDS OF LITTLE TOTS ENTER
TANNED AT MRS. BRUsH's.
Show Given by Women of the Flower
Mission Enjoyed by All Visitors
A General Success.

Hundreds Of little folks, with almost as
many grown up people. took advantage of
the fine afternoon yesterday and went TO
the circus" Not TO the real circus. with
its fierce tigers, big elephants and all
kinds Of wild, ferocious animals that strike
terror to the timid hearts of the little ones;
but to a beautiful circus, in a great big
yard, where there were many good things
to eat and lots of fascinating things 10
do. There was a circus part to be sure,
for in one corner Of Mrs. John T. Brush's
big yard a circus tent had been erected.
Here a proud ringmaster. known in every
day life as N A. Gladding, cracked his
whip as he held sway over a collection OF
all kinds of domestic animals, which meek
ly allowed themselves to be gazed upon.
The ringmaster was ably assisted by
Miss Shower and Miss Reeves, who were
kept busy protecting the little pig and
chickens from onslaughts of investigat-
ing children and keeping the children
themselves from falling in the pen with
the calf
All the attractions were not inside the
tent, however. Rumors that the famous
Guess Who?" clown was soon to appear
until Guess Who?" came tearing across
the lawn followed by crowd of delighted
children. live pig, with a highly-de-
veloped propensity for squea1ing, furnished
almost as much amusement from it's peri
lous position under the clowns arm as
did the clowns antics 1t was not long.
| however, until those who knew about such
things realized that Guess Who repre-
sented the 'Pierrot' OF old. with his white
costume and the black cat on his back
That was not all found out either, for after
| several exciting chases over the broad
lawn familiar laugh from the clown be-
| trayed the fact that Guess Who?" was
/ Mrs. John I. Brush.
Attractions for the children were scat
! tered all over the lawn. In one corner
George Il. Hunt presided a sQueaky
monograph, which held forth with all the
/ latest tunes 10 the JOY and wonderment of
/ the crowd of children surrounding it. The
CANDY booth In another corner was q great
success. Its proprietors were not idle a
moment and the stock soon grew so low
/ that business had TO be discontinued. Mrs
j. III. Loves was banker here and the
candy dispensers were Miss Newton, Miss
Eckhouse, Miss Rosenthal, Miss Hendricks
and Miss Helen loves
THE LEMONADE STAND.
Half way up the walk which, winding in
and out among the forest trees, leads to
the picturesque Brush homestead. the
lemonade stand had been wisely estab-
lished. A hollow stump made a fine stand
for the lemonade bowl, although some of
the little tots couldn't see It that way.
1t was hard to understand how lemonade
that came out of tree could be clean.
A number of them, as their fathers might
say. were from Mossour" and had to be
shown show, just how things were; Mrs. Beck.
XNahh
| veg, Miss Cleland and Miss Ellen Baker
| served the lemonade
The next attraction was the pony carts
! Mrs. 5. h. Morss had charge of them and
the drivers were her daughter, Miss Jose
phine and Miss Marjorie MCGOWAN. The
little ponies ran themselves half TO death
up and down the drive and almost every
child there had a ride
About O'Clock in the afternoon a commo-
| tlon In the northeast corner of the lawn
quickly drew large crowd. The cause was
| soon discovered to be another of those
'while-you-wait' attractions, for two mild.
| eyed cows were being MIXED for the edifica-
tion Oh the Youngsters. The milk went like
not cakes when the children found that
they were TO drink II, and the pretty milk
maids IN dainty costumes, with shiny tin
buckets, had no trouble in disposing of the
beverage. Mrs. w. w. Carter, Mrs Charles
Bennett, Mrs. G.. +. Branham, Mrs Will
liam Serrin, Miss Springsteen, Miss Jack
son and Miss Buggy had charge of this
part or the afternoons entertainment
There was one feature of the circus how
ever, which was not enjoyed by ALL That
was Mrs. George E. Hunt with her monkey
In the hrst place the monkey was not ac-
customed TO circuses of this kind and I'm the
second place Mrs. Hunt was not accus-
toned TO monkeys. So after the monkey
had refused to do anything except whimper
and Mrs Hunt had grown tired of holdine
1t carefully on her lap ii was returned In
disgrace TO its city home. There was also
a snake charmer, who, with a ferocious
looking snake wound around her neck, was
the terror and admiration of her playmates
She was moved to bitter tears for fear the
reporter would put her name in the paper
And then there were more lost children in
that one short afternoon than are found by
the police in a year.
THE LOST CHILDREN
The gate keepers, Miss Anna and Miss
Louise Spann, had almost as much trouble
keeping the lost children from running
home as they did in keeping the crowd out
One lost infant when lemonade was offered
as bride If she would stop crying and tel
her mammals name said amid her tears
mo, 1 can't eat any lemonade; 1 feel toe
bad" But by o'clock all the lost had
been found and every child's ambition fol
fun satisfied, and the street cars bore many
loads OF little folks worn out with pleasure
back to the city
Not alone from the standpoint of a good
time was the circus a success, but also
financially. The Flower Mission did no
give the entertainment so much for the
sake of making money as to give the chill
dren good time. Everything was sold a
a low price so that all the children coulC
buy. About one thousand of the children
had boxes and were admitted free TIL,
Others, over four hundred i'm ALL paid
slight admission fee. At the candy tabl,
over 500 was taken in: the lemonade bootl
took in S25, the pony carts $40, and I'll,
milk sold for almost $. With the gate re
/ ceipts and the receipts from attraction!
/ not mentioned liz was thought that abO1