The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1906-07-14
sELLs-FLoTo SHOWS
1.-THE Circus Beautiful"
Will Soon Be Here.

Mr.. Alan Rogers, the greatest realistic
writer and critic in the South, says, in
the Atlanta Constitution:
"Show US the man with soul so dead
that he does not feel the least bit of thrill
when the circus comes to town, and we
will show you confirmed cynic. He's
bad man; it for treason, stratagems
and spoils.' For, the man who elevates
his proboscis at the circus not only ad-
mits that he isn't young and never has
been, but furthermore advertises the fact
that he has no sympathy with youth.
And while it may be only misdemeanor
never to have been young, it is delib-
crate criminality never to have desired
youth.
Therefore, the circus is your true test
as to whether your neighbor is human
or not. One who has become thoroughly
disillusioned is not only heavy weight
upon himself, but wearies his acquaint-
ances as we'll, and it is false sympathy
which regrets his suicide. If a man
claims that the circus bores him, it is be-
cause all the freshness is gone from his
nature; and by the same token he is bore
himself. Except you become again as a
little child you shall not enjoy the circus;
and if you have the power to do that, you
are in such spiritual condition that you
need not worry about the hereafter. Of
course, we don't mean to make the flat
footed statement that all who go to the
circus will of necessity go to heaven, nor
that all who are admitted to the latter
place must have been circus-goers, for
even some of the circus-goers are want
ing in the proper child-like simplicity in
other things and may not be able to even
creep under the tent of paradise.
"But the main proposition holds true;
it is a bad man and bad nelghbor, and
above all, a bad parent, who can forget
his own juvenile delight in the brave be-
spangled confusion of the Greatest Show
on Earth. Zach circus is the Greatest
Show on Earth.)
"And there is nothing more pathetic
on earth than the urchin who stands out
side the Big Tent, views his companions
blithlely pass before him to enter into
paradise, while all the time the hideous
consciousness is his that he has not been
able to muster the price of admission.
He may grow up later to be great and
good man, and become president of the
United States, but he does not care for
that now-he would give all his chances
in this world for the possession of the
little slip of cardboard which would put
him face to face with the gleesome, flea
some baboon. If you meet any such
wistful hanger.on at the outer pale of the
Land or Hearts Desire, and are moved
by the memories of your youth to pass
him in, you will do better deed than if
you found him hungry in the street and
fed him. For he will digest the meal
and need another before long, but a cir
Gus is worth missing many meals to see.
$50 go to the circus, and don't be so
ashamed of wanting to 60 that you make
the excuse that you are just going to take
care of the children. Admit that you
like it. Go and eat peanuts and laugh
at the clown and feel young and happy
again. The clown is another test. He
will be, to all intents and purposes, the
first clown that you ever Saw, and he will
have the same jokes, but if you attend
in the proper spirit you will laugh in the
same old places. The clown is not
meant to minister to your sense of hu-
NOR; his is the highest function of testing
the degree of youth which you retain"
The Sells-Floto Shows are coming to
Dickinson Wednesday, July 18.