The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1909-10-12
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the seemingly impossible acrobatic
feats inspected the various zoologi-
cal specimens in the menagerie, and
filled up on circus lemonade. ] meet
men and women past the hey-day OF
life who rather boastfully state that
they have never attended a circus.
seen menagerie, or witnessed
play | also meet men and women
never read a novel and some are so
proud of their dense ignorance that
they unblushingly and even with an
objectionable degree of gusto con-
fess that so far as they are concern
ed written or printed language is a
useless invention. Many of them
had parents who not realizing their
offspring had connected back with
the Darwinian progenitor of man
gave them the same training that is
given to human beings. These fond
parents did not realize they were
nurturing travesties on humanity
whose arrogant conceit would cause
them to be so concentrated upon
themselves and their own import
ance that they would not even be
curious to know any thing OF the
thoughts and acts Of the surrounding
world. The ignorance of those who
have never seen menagerle and
witnessed the daring equestrian and
acrobatic feats of the circus is al
most as inexcusable as that of those
who will not read. There are these
extenuating circumstances in the
case OF the former. They have yield
ed implicitly to those who have act
ed as their moral mentors and the
aforesaid moral mentors have Sc
lected certain things for them not
to do. From their earliest recollec-
ton they have had dinned into their
ears the fact that Jehovah on Sinai
and the Nazarine in Jerusalem had
Numbered forth burning anathemas
against all manner of diversions or
never to stop to think of the fact
that the architect and builder of
man would not have endowed him
with a mind had He not intended
that 1t should be devoted to the pur-
suit of both knowledge and pleas
ure. Peoples ideas of right and
wrong are frequently rather tradi-
tional than rational and for an in
stance it is Ielated that less than
century in the past the citizens OF
an American community desired to
hold meeting for the purpose OF
trying to promote a railroad enter
prise The use of the district schoo
,,-house was refused them by the trus
tees because their purpose was 9
wicked one. The puritanical guar
dams of the educational welfare o.
the young said If God had intended
for people to go whizzing through
space at the rate of Is miles pei
hour there would have been some
mention of the fact by some of the
holy prophets. OF course these trus
tees would not attend a circus.
Some one has said the proper stu
dy of mankind is man. To study him
in all his phazes it is necessary tc
see him in all conditions. In every
day life we see him as an honest
toiler, as poet, as statesman, as
a scholar, as a preacher, as teach
er, as altar, as thief, as the SOU
of honor and as rank hypocrite. In
and as an acrobat. We see him per
form feats that seem impossible. we
see the finely rounded limbs and
hard unyielding muscles. AS we be-
hold the symetry OF his form and
his fearlessness we are impressed
with the fact that such a wonderful
piece of mechanism with such varied
powers can not be creature OF
chance but the finished product OF
a master mechanic.
Some tell US the actresses in the
ring do not wear sufficient clothes
have never heard of their complain
ing of being cold 1t Is true their
skirts are little short but they are
clad In becoming tights and their
waists are as high as many a belle
/ have seen in society Besides the
true lover of the circus attends not
to critcise the wearing apparel OF
the actors but to look in wonder
upon their daring feats. Evil be to
him that evil thinketh.
j. M. Slyaden and wife were in
town from Waxahachie No. 4. Mr.. s.
has a Baptist horse, Methodist
mule, Campbellite mule and q
Pr esbyterian mule and one wagon
he calls Joe Bailey and another one
Cone johnson. w. r. Norman OF
Forreston no. 2 is regular attend