New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-14

features OF woman suffrage orators. Nor
would IL have helped matters II she could
have heard the even louder applause which
greeted the antics OF the green hobole skirt
and the clown who undressed and went to
bed right before five thousand pairs OF
eyes. Mstrons In charge looked dubious
at this. however. as II they feared new
complications at bedtime in tho homes
after this.
u was about the middle Of tie perform
ance when Ruth began TO look sleepy and
had to be revived with peanuts and
doughnuts from a huge box the matron
was carrying.
Give one 10 John" was suggested. 30
Miss Ruth picked out another. laid IL De-
side hers. measured the two carefully. ana
gave the smaller one TO the little boy, VINO
accepted his share as q matter of course.
Ruth is the princess, you know" he ex-
planned. shyly. land I'm only the prince
Think OF III All the time the reporters
had been cracking peanuts for princess
and never knowing they were surrounded
by such people as nobility and roboer
hold and fairies who dance in an enchant-
ed castle. These little people are going TO
have q play OF their own called The $40
len Princess" next week. and then they
will wear blue satin and spsngles. or herce
red and yellow cotton II they are ROBBERS
like little Berthe, who shared peanuts win
Cora and JUNE, fairies. No wonder circus
fnery had less glamour for them than for
others In the gathering yesterday!
Just behind them were little crippled boys
who shouted sturdly at the acrobats and
4 ff,-e q, hnfr
pony kept his hold on the revolving table.
They'll be trying that tomorrow.
guess" sighed their guardian. one httie
fellow couldn't stand up. though, and ne
was kept busy twisting around In his chair
as the vendors OF peanuts and ice cream
cones passed by. One leg was incased Is
| a long iron brace, which had 10 extend
across the aisle
That's all right. Don't get upP the
vendors would say. kindly. But every time
| the little fellow felt obliged TO move Out
| OF their way.
There was another group OF large grown
unlocking boys who laughed occasionally
! That was all. They were the feeble-mind'
ed from Randalrs Island. Sometimes the
real circus band took q rest and let the
band of small boys from the New forh
! Catholic Protectory show what they coulo
! do, and critics said they couldn't tell the
difference. Some Of the other institutions
represented were the Sheltering Arms, the
| United Day Workers Nursery. Flushing
the New York Child Labor Association. the
New York Society for the Relief OF Grip
pied Children. the Clara de Hirsch Home
St Bartholomew's Parish House, the Col
ored Orphan Asylum, the Mission or the
Immaculate Virgin, the Five Points Mis-
sion, the Jacob Rils Settlement. the Howard
Mission, the A. c. Clark Neighborhooc
House, the Hebrew sheltering Guardian
the House Of st. Giles the Cripple, th'
Prison League. Volunteers Of America; tn
Department Of Public Charities, the Little
Mothers Aid Association, the Little Moth
ers' Aid Association CBrooklyn), the Asso
citation OF Catholic Charities. the Leake anC
Watts Orphans Home. the Mott Street In
dustr!al School. the Miss Sternberger Jew
ish Girls Home, the Crippled Children
Driving Fund, the American Sunshine so
ciety and the Spring Street Settlement