The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-22
NINE ZEN TONGUES ARE SPOKEN UNDER
 THE TENTED CITY

The busy old world in the hard and fast race for success in finance and commerce, will always pause when the band begins to play. So will it also slacken it's pace at the time of year when that rna1ady contracted in childhood becames acute in manhood, sand which is always and unmistak- ably diagnosed as red wagon fever.'' For all the world loves a circus, and lis ever interested in the people of the canvas canopied arena.
 There is an irresistible charm in the sawdust and spangles, and a hard to-conquer lingering fascination in the gold gleam and glitter of the big tented enterprise. And yet the world does not know half as much about the circus fold as it thinks it does Back of the curtain and the glamour and the hop-la of the rings, there is another world-a world all to itself hIled with real hunla nifty, but, by the very nature of their calling, made a world apart
 Nearly every performer, or at least 95 per scent. of them, are born into the world preceded by generation af- ter generation of ancestors who have been with the circus since it became mankind's never tiring amusement. The athletic essentials, and the per lection of physical training made this fact, and every star of the arena, every bareback rider, every daring aerial performer and nearly every clown, learned the rudiments of the work when they were children, and when their muscles were receptive to training by the suppleness. of youth. [ That foundation and long practice has made them perfect.
 In the most of people who live un- der the canvas of the Ringing Broth CTS Circus coming to Bridgeport on Tuesday, there are 400 performers s--L- :, e., verse. In all, there are 19 languages, or dialects, spoken among 1890. peo- pie who travel in the four long trains of this, the largest show ever organ izeds Language is not necessary to the circus performer, for his work ap- peaIs altogether to the eye, which is Its sole interpreter. Because of this the daring and skill Of all nations blend harmonious1y in the arena of the white tops.''
 And just as harmoniousIy does the same quality enter into the daily life of these performers after the show work is over for the day and the crowds have gone home. However an anomaly it may seem, circus peo- pie, the greatest wanderers of all en- tertainers, love domesticity. One has but to take a peep at the tidy ar engagements of the dressing tents, or catch 8 glimpse of the stateroorns on the Ringing sleeping ears, to real 1ze this facts And more than that circus people have sure enough homes own them, and maintain the most wholesome of home life during that period when the big show hides itself away for the winter. They work hard, train with avidity, res1 easy, enjoy their life, are thrifty save their money and their physica sesingss and are never seen at play ir the haunts of the great white lights of the cosmopolitan thoroughfare, ol the garish glare of the lobster pal. ace As one of the women barebacI riders expresses it:
 ssI know nothing of the require. nnents for the care of a singer or ar actress accomplish but I dc know that woman who must a1way. be ,at the height Of physical perfeci