The sun., 1908-04-05

about in the Clowns Alley when We want
him 70 shut up
soh, Austin's going to chirp. Don't be
afraid, Walsh. It's all right. Lady won't
hurt yer. Walsh's got the door what,
he's backed out, too:'
well. ] don't know. lady. It's tough
for you and with pictures coming our way
too Lord! Seems as II we'd ought 10 think
Of something The troubles right here,
now. Well tell you, There amt nothing
neT in the business. Clovning's the same
story year after year. ,..
'Oh, yes. Of course We 60 to dlnerent
placee, all over the world, in fact II 10
Foolish Ford who is speaking a middle
aged man with deeply turrowed face end
kind gray eyes. But it's all the same TO
Us, We don't care whether a towns up or
down
I'm thinking Of San Francisco when !
say that. 7 was there before the earth
quake and was there after II. Didn't Sc
any difference 20 talk about. Up above
the ground or down below IT, what's the
odds It's j1st a town, that's what II IL.
Now. I've been In London q heap o
times. Lived right near Westminster Ab-
bay: and all last season was 80 English that
had my trunk marked Sir Richard Come
ford. Liverpool England but ] never went
near the Abbey Ia 60 inside.
Il don't know why cloWninR makes yOil
feel that way. but It does. You get 40 gol-
darn tired OF places where George Wash
iuEton was shot and Abe Lincoln was born
that you just leave EN- for the rubber
necks
"And then besides we're thinking This
il from one Of tiIe UtheT ;SlT.y aye clG~rs
~You see when you're q clown II g UP 10 yOti
to think up something original, for no matter
how good a stunt you may have you can't
| 70 on doing II forever. You've got to have
somethinR every biz he good as you had
before and heap sight better. 1t keeps
you guessing in your spare minutes,
One or two wipe on the perspiration from
| their brows at the memory thus evoked.
Some Of the salaries OF the clowns run az
! high as 500 week. some don get more
! S7S The clAverest clown is the one that
! fools the manager the best. He is the best
| II he can do that for II amt an easy trick
He's stopped fooIing and "a the real thinR'
Have you got that down. ,-
sThe wav a clown does Ia 10 think up
something smart and then submit II. You
needn't think it'll 60 because you write .
| letter sayin II will or because you laugh al "
YOURSELF Il is the inventor Of the rubber
neck coach trick who now has the moor
ave tried that trick first IN brooklyn and
| thev laughed at II and then we were up a
/ tree because we thought it wouldn't take 10
| New York. but Il has.
-New Yorks the ticklsh place. AXE .
| trick all over the country and get laugh
| Uberever you strike the tent polee. and then
tote II over here II this burg and you get the
| frozen mitts. -.
Then, again. some fool thing that the
| country laws would he ashamed to smile ~
/ viii bring do.sr tl,e -hOis Garden. Peonlell
| 20 home and talk about the button bursting
I clown comicality for week and bring
! over their niothers-in-law to see II
/ Have you ever been in Paris, ladyf'
! interrupts one whose name u unknown,
| -end.dld you ever get knocked down by
| cab and get arrested for blocking traiic,
] and fined for IL? Well that would remind
! YOU br one Of the many joys Of the merry
I clowns life.
III ne gets kicked by horse that is show:
! ing Cd IN the scme OF expert eqnitstion and
/ acrobstic equestrianism, or II he Is Knocked
/ over NV one Of those graceful little Roamin
ohGriois. or perhaps II e trspezist IN his mar
yelloua aeriIl act forgets end falls on him
! instead of fine net why, everybody vents
! 10 know what the clowns doing In the
| way there? What business has he got 70 b
under feet and interfering with the legiti-
1 mate businessg
slt's up to the clown to look out for hin'-