Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-11-16

OF the multitude CT Jays and jsyesses,
and II will be like one grand circus
day spread all over the summer and
fall. He says ne wants me TO learn
the circus business from the ground
up. from the currying OF the hyenas
with currycomb and brush. to going
up into the roof of the tent on the
trape.o and falling into the net, while
the audience faints with excitement.
| asked pa II he wanted me to keep
on playing tricks on him while we
were on the road, and he said he had
go. so used to my tricks that he
couldn't live without them, and he
didn't want mo to let q chance escape
to make him have a good time.
April INA and pa have had
several discussions about what kind
OF q position Il is going to leave her
In, among the neighbors, for pa and l
to go of with a circus, and ma want
cd TO withdraw from the church. end
board up the windows Of the house,
and make folks think we had gone
to the seashore, but pa convinced her
that we would have preaching In the
main tent every Sunday, and he says
there is no more pious lot OF people
ON earth than those who travei with
a circus, and then ma wanted to 50
along. She said she could do the
mending of the long socks that the
women wear when, they ride bare
backed but we had To shut down ON
mas going with the show, cause we
never could have any fun with a wom-
an TO look after. Pa says nowadays
| the men and women who ride on bare
back horses in the ring dress in iegu-
lar evening costume. the women with
low-neck dresses, and long trains. and
the men with swallow-tail coats and
patent leather shoes. and they are as
polite as dancing masters.
We have compromised with ma, and
she Is to meet the show at Kalamazoo
and go with us to Kankakee and kco-
kuk unit! she Is overcome by nervous
prostration. when we shall have her
20 home Pa thinks ma would last
about two days with the show, but
| guess IL she took course of treat
ment with peanuts and red lemonade
one afternoon and evening. she would
want to throw up her job, and go
hack home in charge OF stomach spe-
cialist.
Well. pa showed up at the house In
his circus clothes. this afternoon. and
he certainly Is a peach. Pa has been
letting his chin whiskers grow for about
six weeks. and to-day he had them
colored black, and he looks as though
he had swallowed the backing brush.
and left the bunch Of bristles outside,
on his chin. He looks fierce. Then,
he has got a new brand of silk hat.
with wide. curling brim. and he has
had a vest made of black and blue
check goods. the checks as big as the
| checks on checker board. and pair
OF pants that look like diamond
Lack rattlesnake, and he has got an
imitation diamond stud in his white
shirt that looks like paper weight.
Ma wanted TO know IL there was
any law TO compel pa to dress like
that, cause he looked as though he
was a gambler or train robber. Pa
| says that a circus proprietor has got
] to look different from anybody else.
in order TO inspire fear and respect on
the part of the hands around the
show, as we'll as the audiences that
flock to the arena, and he asked ma
| II she didn't remember old Dan Rice,
and old John Robinson. Ma didn't re-
member them, but she remembered
Barnum. because Barnum lectured on
temperance, and she said she hoped
pa would emulate Barnum's example.
and pa said he would, and Their he
took a watch chain with links as big
as a trace chain and spread it across
his checkered vest. from one pocket to
the other, with life-size gold elk
hanging down the middle, and ma al
most had a CONFUSION.
Gee. but If pa wears that rig In the
menagerie tent, the animals will paw
and below. like drove of cattle that
smell blood. Pa is going to wear a
sack coat with his outfit. SO as to look
Tough. and he wouldn't hear to ma
when she tried to get him to wear
frock coat. He said frock coat was
all right in society or among the
crowned heads, but when you have
to mingle with lions and elephants
one minute, that would snatch the tail
of a coat and chew it, and the next
minute you are mixAd Up with bunch
of freaks or lot OF bareback riders or
trapeze performers, you have got to
compromise on coat that will fit any
climate, and not cause invidious re-
marks, whatever that is.
will have to stand up beside the
giant once in awhile, to show the diff
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