El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-02

and while they We're setting the rings
a crowd of clowns raced on. Clowns
had never appealed TO Helen. and now
she looked without smiling and with
more wonder than amusement at the
grotesQue figures I'm their various an
tics which brought out ripples Of
laughter from all over the house
"Ol, dear. I can see anything funny
in thEL' as a man dressed as an i'm
mense fat woman In a calico mother
hubbard fell spTaWliug down AID
showed a wide eTbause of striped
You never think anything's funny.
Never saw "a woman with so little
sense OF humOr.'
Here a clown. dressed as a back
woods farmer came chasing a sQueal-
ing pig around the ring. The whole
place was I'm an uproar when he finally
got hold of the pigs tail and slid along
the ground. But Helen could only feel
sorry for the poor little abimal who
helpless and unwilling. was forced TO
so through this twice a day.
Now the acrobat act was set, and the
jugglers and tumblers went through
many feats. the perfecting OF which
had required years Of patient training.
Yet they received not half as much ap-
plause rs had the foolish clowns whose
work called for no skill except to be as
absurd as possible.
Dear that's wonderful Why don I
they applaud" as after a particularly
marvellous juggling act the man
stepped out aud bowed in anticipation.
But there was only faint hand
clap from some one in the gallery
"Oh, he did some marvellous things
persisted Helen ''Why don't they ap-
plaud him.
Warren shrugged his shoulders
People are surfeited with this sort Of
thing. Nowadays the acrobat has to
do so much to arouse the least en-
thusiasm- In a way its shame for
those fellows work hard"
Here the 2crObatlc act was quickly
changed for a slackwire mum Der. An
other prOdigious presentation of yari-
Gus and vigorous srenic acts of deft-
ness and deXterity,' was the announce
ment on the program
The Trained Sea Lions.
Then came the trained sea lions.
Helep was charmed with their grace
and agility and really marvellous in
telligence While riding bareback pO-
mics they juggled balls, plates and
burning torches on their sleek noses,
barking joyously when rewarded with
a fish.
Watch those men work" said War
rem, as the moment this act ended the
small army Of brown uniformed work
men rushed forward and with aston
lsllnS sWlItneSs removed the para
phernalia and put up that for the next
"a trapeZe number. That's the most
wonderful thing about the circus-its
organization. Every detail is planned
and timed 10 the second. Now Just
watch how they put up that netting"
And as Helen looked down it seemed
hardly a moment before the nets were
stretched and everything ready for the
performers, who, In their pink. blue
and lavender tights were climbing Up
the rope ladders to swing dizziIy aIoft
while the band played slow music TO
add 10 the effect
There was gasp from the audience
as one of the most daring aerialists
missed a swing in a flying leap and
fell crashing into the net below But
in a second he was again climbing up
the rope ladder and again flying from
swing TO swing. A few moments later
In the end ring there was a sudden
downward streak Of blue, and This
time IL was young woman whom the
net had caught
"Oh, Warren, don't you love adiect-
ives? Listen reading from the pro
gram An imperial army Of aerial
lists in a superbly sensational arrav of
amazing midalr exploits on the flvfne
trape1e. Positively the greatest aerial
display ever Ssembled- Astonishing
and auCaclOus feats or finished flights
and reckless rarity" Imagine writing
a whole program like that"
Writing Circus Stuff.
"Oh. that's part of the business. and
it's mighty hard stuff to write. A man
a while He travelled with the circus
for about a year and wrote all their
publicity dope. said az first he used 10
sit up all night studying the diction-
airy for synonyms OF stupendous and
astounding, Now he's a newspaper
reporter. and curioUsly enough his
style is usually simple Never uses