The Mena weekly star., 1906-10-18
NUT so BAD AFTER ALL
The Daily Routine of Circus Women Have Time to Sleep, Eat, Sew and Go to
 Church.

much gusto as their husbands
 and brothers, and indignantly
 deny the oft repeated assertion of
 the uninitiated that they have a hard time.
 "Hard time, indeed" repeated \ Julia Lo3anda, recently, i've
 have a perfscsly jolly lime when \ we are not working, and l enjoy circus life much better than If l
 were tied down to domestic life, and the numerous drudg cries that fall to the lot of most women.
 Miss Lowanda knows whereof ! she speaks. She is a master bare back rider with the Carl Hagen beck slows, which will be seen in Meua, Saturday, Oct. 20, and with her husband, Edward Shipp,
 who is conceded to be the best director in the United States, has been in the circus business for k ten years.
 We live splendidly with this circus, Mir. Hagenbeck's mana E gers take exceptionally good care of the women. We have state rooms and clean airy berths m beautiful Pullman sleepers, with porters to look after our laundry, K brush our shoes and skirts aud S keep our beds supplied with fresh < linen. And our husbands, of & course, get the benefit of all * these luxuries.
 We are not compelled to rise early like the work men. If we N are out of the cars by nide o'clock # and reach the circus grounds # half hour later, we have plenty of time to slip iuto our parade 8 costumes, and be in readiness when MT. Shipp our equestrian director, calls mount" After parade we change into street cos tunes, and have luncheon in the dining tents. And we have splen- dld things to eat. served admir- ably in the cleanest of tents "The afternoon performance does not commence until two o'clock and have plenty of time for social chats and sewing parties. A few of us carry little hand sewing machines in our wardrobe trunks. We get them \ out aud sew, and gossip just like the women do at church sewing societies, q know all about the latter because belonged to one d my home in Baraboo, Wis., un- til it comes time to dress for our acts. Then the time passes 4 quickly, and almost before we & know it, the show is over, and \ most of Us slip down into the city to shop and view any objects of interest that the particular place in which we are showing, po- \ scsses.
 Dinner is served cu the grounds from four until six o'clock, and then we have two
 hours before the night show com
 mences. Many of us utilize this time in practicing our acts. We are throrgh, our trunks are packed, and we are iu the cars
 shortly after eleven, to either
 read, sew, talk or go to bed. We never keep the shockingly late
 hours of the society maiden CT
 matron, and tue fact that we live almost entirely in the open air
 makes us strong and healthy. In
 fact instead of beiug dyspeptic
 irritable, we fiud life worth living and we are cheerful.
 Sundays if we have long run
 that is, if the trip from town to
 town IS quite a distance, we visit
 with each other iu the various
 cars and have good social tim e.
 Ii is just like visiting neighbors. II our train reaches town early on
 Sunday, the msjority of us go to
 church; seeking the edi6ce of our
 faith. Yes, lots of circus folks
 go 10 church. Why, was with
 circus lseveral years ago that
 possessed clown who had studied
 for the Episcopal ministry. Be
 fore he had progressed sufficient
 ly in his studies to secure .ractorship, he fell victim to