New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-03

asked Of Lionel the Lion Faced Boy" who had
been brushing back the silxen growth which
overspread his whole face. and through which
his eyes sparkled like those Of Yorkshire ter
rier. The cublike head only shook. and then
became still. At first thought its young mind.
which had always been isolated from the rest
OF the world by barrier OF hair was cropping in
the dark. He tried In vain to think what that
question meant. Lionel since his earliest recol-
lection regarded the museum or the circus as
his home. From what he could see of man
kind, IL was made up Of a lot OF vacant faces
that can only stare and cape.
Sometimes he envied other boys. who could
run out and I'm houses, and make all the noise
they wanted and break things without getting
caught and punished. But bis jealousy Of ordina-
ry boys became a hatred and a contempt after
the day he ran away from Barnum * Bailey's IN
London. The very first thing, Il rough listed
lad tore off his veil and shoute3 Freak Then
other boys came running up, and they all called
him names he had never heard before. but which
made him tremble. Then a great, big fellow.
with a little cap on the back of his head. caught
him by the hair on his face ard yelled
Come and well shave him."
But policeman knocked the bully down and
took the freak safely back to the Hippodrome.
The Living Skeleton had begun to tell how
he had just refused invitation TO dinner for
fear he would win flesh and lose his jo5 when
Lionel shook his name and said:
Maybe you want to know what love. May
be that's what you mean. oh, l see now Well.
1 love story books, the kind where there is
plenty of shooting and one gets killed.
And when l get TO be a man. and after 1 get
rich, as an exhibit, I'm going 20 shave my face.
where Ine nalr dOn u grow on Ctner people s. ard
so out West and hold up stage coaches"
Better hold them up first and shave after
ward remarked the Armlejs Wonder as he
scrubbed his autograph.
During their years Of exhibition freaks are
inclined to become vain. self-satisfied and con-
ceited A monstrosity will tell you, for ex-
ample, that he earns far more money by simply
permitting the world to stare at him than or
binary mortals average who have 20 sweat and
toll. No capitalist travel from city to city
as he does. No prince ever held court to so
many millions. And no beauty" said ia
nous prodigy, known the Calfheaded Wom-
an, had so many men fighting for her hand as
l have had managers bidding against each other
FOR the privilege OF exhibiting me-"
The salaries OF freaks in the employ OF Bar
mum G. Bailey the highest on the payroll
and according to the management they range
from $50 10 $500 week Women freaks are
wont to turn their money into diamonds. with
which they bedeck themselves from head TO
foot. One of the midget troupe, for example.
wears a diamond necklace representing the
salaries of several months. In their vacations
they retire to remote country places, where
their few neighbors soon become accustomed to
them and leave them alone. and in such
haven, attended by servants. they purpose to
end their days. Mile Christine. the Twin
Headed Queen" is the ideal of the average
freak When Bfillie left Barnun & Bailey's
she said she was worth $4,000. and she is
living in an obscure village of Georgia a lone
~ but luxurious existence