El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-23
TRAIL BLAZING FOR THE SAWDUST
RING; GIRL ASA PRESS AGENT
Experience of a Young Woman Ahead of Show, the
Things She Has to Do the Editors She Has to Please
Story that Peases One Fails With Another
Long Waits for ''Tank Town Trains.
BY EMMA c. MILLER.

Another editor We have heard you
have great animal circus. but, surely
you have clowns
oh. yes. we have clowns. 30 funny
fellows. many animal comedians and a
girl clown"
Great, Tell Us all about the funny
side Of your show"
But" you demonstrate. animals are
our specially. Just imagine. a bear
leopard. dog and monkey riding gallop-
ing horses in the same arena at the
same time"
Yes. yes" will come the answer
but about these clowns. They make
people laugh
And there you are. Next day the
readers think YOU are a show of chalk
faced. freai1ishly CARRIED. covOrtinS
human beings and have been named
animal circus TO mislead the public.
Another city and another editor. NO,
No cuts, Nothing but pictures, and We
mean real pictures. something with
action: if they are good and we think
our readers viii enjoy them. We viii
give You a Sunday layout"
You bring your choicest pictures,
taken by the best film company there
is They have assured YOU they are
the best action pictures they ever made
for a circus. but the editor says: Il
said action-but guess 1 can make out
with these" You pin blue ribbon
day layout and go along the street
swinging yourself in very satisfied
manner.
What Another Editor Wants.
Next big city. The editor viii tell
YOU that the best press-a gent he ever
knew had an elephant move a house
which the house-movers were unable
TO get out Of a rut- We gave them
= half-page and pictures. because Il
he
Of q local feature that would interest
our home people
But. again. we have a circus. an
animal circus and il is my duty 10 tell
about this circus-not about how big a
house an elephant can move We do
not intend going into the house-mov-
ing business.
You end it all by having the "Rotar-
ians-- or some other local organization
send the orphans TO the circus or
course YOU meet them half way on the
expense
Show-day hundreds are turned away
who would have paid 80 cents admission
and bought reserved seat besides
Then you wait. wondering when you
viii get a warning not 10 give the
show away in getting publicity"
Fun It's the greatest kind OF
game You are always tuned" TO
high pitch, looking from the news
papers TO the circus to know which
one is going to hit you the hardest
And so it is for nine or ten months in
the year.
Your Toll.
Your toll is your pay check, the
education that travel and contact with
brilliant people give you: your oppor-
tunity 10 learn more about your coun-
Try and the people that inhabit It
Home your folks have forgiven Won
for doing something no girl has ever
done before. Your girl friends want
TO know how the girls in the north,
east, south and west dress this year
how they entertain and which section
drinks tee and which coffee; what kind
Of literature do the men in each section
like TO have the girls read and why
do the eastern girls think they know
more than the western girls do7
The men friends want TO know what
different men in different localities
said TO yOu2 Did they entertain you
very much9 And DO you think you
VIII continue with this kind OF work.
They fauu over you when you come
home-y you have become an oddly. They
weep when you go away and want
YOU 10 send post cards from every
Interesting place you 20. and scold
you for the letters you never wrote.
This is the life OF a woman circus
press agent