Show when ones nerve I 1 fails it U N 1 t curious thing and one that temana a standing puzzle eiren to those connected with the business ell all their lives that tightrope tight rope trapeze and other daring performer performers who chiefly work in the open air are far moro liable to sudden nerve failure and to stage ingot if it may be called than are the fellows who only show their lr prowess under a root roof another fact equally well known Is that once a woman perfo performer mer has heard beard the ringing shouts of an ap RP public once she has d come some dangerous feat she will run ricks risks and quite p perform tricks that no male in the same line would dream of the woman athlete has not to he be urged on she has to be resti tined more often than not it may be said at once that few among the public know how near vicar death uch such people occasionally are As illustrating both tho the facts stated above tho the writer can never forget seeing a woman tightrope light whose rop ropa had been left too slack she waa was per forming at a great height and thoo rhen she yot got to a certain distance alone along the rope the latter sagged eo so that she could neither advance norr nor retire ettre the 1 public arnew nothing of the danger till tha manager in an agony tried to set get two immense Ica mcnae ladders tied together u us to the ropo rope but this arrangement arran fell short and even t it had not done so no one would have dared to rest it against the swaying rupo rope at last tho ladders bere rere held boldly upright by strong man till the topmost runs just touched mhd rope and then tho the gallant yount yc munir bellow fallow a sailor trent went up welli the udders swayed about as though la 13 a breeze he ito snatched the woman on an the arpe and held just as she fainted and arid dropped the balancing pole |