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Show Ladies Enter Wild . I Animal Cage l Lady wild animal trainers aro fast coming into vogue; the Innovation was ' started hy Al G. Barnes; with his men t in the army and navy, he cast about : for women, and his first protogo was : Miss Martha Florine, a Belgian refugee " r who took the roaring lions like cooties . to a tramp. Soon she was on speaking terms with ono lion, then a panther, so on un-til un-til now sho Is sole subjagator and trainer to the 30 male Nubian lions under her control in tho Barnes steel arena. 'H I Another lady trainer is Grace Mar 'Lm vel, who wields a bunch of leopards and panthers liko a parcel of house cats. She is a bit camera shy, but 11 thinks nothing of slapping a panther ,H in the face when occasion requires iL And to jump from one extreme to . another, Bessie Harvey, former prima ; donna of the Boston Grand Opera com pany, mounts a white equipage, bursts into dulcet ones, and the answer is ! the appearance of thousands of lovely birds from all directions. She is accom-panied accom-panied by -JO chorus girls on horseback, H tho -vhole of which constitutes an H equestrienne operatic extravaganza, H and tho only ono in existence. IH Of tho 110 sensations with tho H Barnes circus, there is something to H suit every disposition. The date in , H Ogden is May i. H |