The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-12

show, and it proved to be real treat. to the whole crowd. Baby Sue, the ele- phant did some fine stunts. Trainer Wilson, who has been hadling fero- cious animals for 27 years, gave fine exhibition with the lions Another trainer had bunch of nasty temnerea leopards to put through their acts. Then the princess, the girl trainer. made her gang of savage tigers dc her bidding. She then came over and sat with our party and amused us very much by saying she used to ride in the airdome, but it was getting on her nerves and so she got to foolinr With tigers, as 1t wasn't so dangerous
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 Guess what set Mrs. Henderson ana Ruth Law wild? Just four cute little baby lions. orly five weeks old. which were taken from mother lioness because of her bad temper, and given to a wa ter spaniel to raise. Three are getting along finely, but the fourth has been nunv from it's birth, and so is not put in the cage on exhibition like the others. but stays in an old trunk with its foster mother and is fed on raw eggs, matted milk, and as a delicacy gets a chicken about once a week. Both of the women had to take q cub in their arms and fondle it like 1t was a kitten
 we LOOK III the Wll0 west show and saw the daring male and female riders. the trick donkey. and the Jig, unman- ageable steer, and met the champion lady broncho buster of the world, who was slim, girlish miss who doesn't know what fear is when it comes to riding bucking horses. The outfit really ca.- ries number of plainsmen and true western women. They have the accent, and then they deliver the goods in the of ;. n shin pd
 
 I always have been sorry for freaks. Somehow they get my sympathy. I'll not enumerate all we saw or all I know. It might take too long and be embarrass- ing. There was the usual armless won der; the living skelton, and the fat lady; the tattooed man. and the family who looked like children The dwarfs were good, but, oh! how tired the little people looked for yesterday was a stren- uous day for all the actors on the Mi,l- way. It was 12-hour day Just think of having to go through sucn day To be stared at and questioned by hun dreds of strangers, and then to have to go through ones tricks time after time! l am glad I am not freak.
 l have forgotten it's name but the last place we went in was about the big gest laugh producer of all. It's the show with the mirrors and the plateglass so mixed up that it causes everyone who tries to find his way about in it to get badly mixed. Talk about dual person atty! Why, in the blooming thing man has dozen representations of himself was just behind Governor Henderson and 1t seemed to me as if Alaba anna had at least 12 governors all of the same size, look and dress
 We left the Tutwiler at 1.30 and got back at 6:S0, dusty and tired but, oh! the fun we had Governor Henderson forgot affairs of state. rMs Henderson had put behind her the fact that she was the first lady in the state, and was just a natural, charming woman, who was having good time and didn't care who knew it. Ruth Law acted as if she wasn't world celebrity and entered into everything with the joy and abandon of a schoolgirl out for good time. Bus ter Brown was unconscious that he was the president of the fair, and took as much interest in the various shows as though he had just come to town to see the sights. even got 1t out of my head that was a newspaper man and en- ioyed myself Just as if I didn't have to write the whole thing up. Don't you wish you could have been with us? It was loads of fun.