The Sentinel=record., 1914-10-18
CIRCUS LIFE LIKE
 A TUNER OF BABEL
MANY LANGUAGES SPOKEN AND EVERY PHASE OF LIFE ON THE
 GLOBE IN EVIDENCE.
Card Clubs, Woman's Clubs, Clown Society, Baseball Team and Other Organizations Within Circus Life.

Circus life is not without its reward The work is hard but the life is in the open. The fields and the trees are green. The skies distil health for all nature. Husbands, wives, sons daughters, uncles and aunts travel together. Like the snails they take their homes around with them. These homes are the sleeping cars. Neces- sarily they are modest in space but they are made to bloom cheerlly by genuine domestic pride.
 The most wonderful circus train in the world is owned by the Hagenbech Wallace Shows Combined. It is a tower of Babel The people speak al. most every language under the sun The social side of this big family is interesting. There are card clubs. a Nomans club, clown society, cosmo- politan club and baseball team.
 The feminine touch of refinement is to be seen about the living parts or the circus tents as well as in the cars. The dressing tents have no hardwood floors, but soft carpets are spread over the grass, and on these each art. ist gathers her little party. The cos mopolitan club was started last sea son. Very few of its members speak English and they stumble hopelessly. lt is polyglot crowd, working far from home and needing such fellow ship. A present they are learning to speak English under the guidance of a little American rider. There are fifty children with the show. Many are the sons and daughters of per formers; in a sense born to the busi. ness Others are the children of rela. lives. Some are apprenticed. The boys and girls go to the circus school and study with greater zest because of splendid physical health and six months separation from school roe- tine. Their teachers are furnished by the management.
 When the big show comes to Hol Springs, Wednesday, october 2f, the first thing that will be noted as its vast improvement. From it's first day of existence it has grown rapidly year by year but never before has i shown such progress as in the recenl years.
 Twenty-siX years ago B. E. Wallac organized the first circus. He worked Ike a beaver. The show began to grow in spite of the bitterest opposi, ton in the world. It grew to a tre mendous size and his opponents fell away from him in amazemeut. It kep, on growing, leaving all other shows SO far behind as to be entirely out of sigAt.
 The splendid organization he is now is a model of enterprise and pattern of excellence He has elevated the circus from a gypsy-like method and placed it among the arts. As a business proposition it runs like a bank. When it comes to giving com fort to patrons, there is no theatre in the country operated with more painstaking effort.
 In every large city in the world it maintains an office. In every jungle. forest and everglade trappers are on the constant hunt Thus novelties are assured. It matters not what the cosl may be, anything that is curious and interesting. and any performer whose methods are novel are secured al once
 The performance of the Hagenbech Wallace circus this year is divided into two departments, one is the ia nous Carl Hagenbeck's animal show, where several hundred animals per. form almost human stunts. There are educated elephants. three herds of them; seals, monkeys. lions, polar bears, lions, leopards, royal Benga. tigers, etc In the circus department