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Show The People Who Go to See Pantomimic Performances in the Land of High-Priced Titles. THE WAGE ' EAENEES' WRONGS A Peculiar Missouri Hen-Notes of Iu -terest Gathered for The Times' Headers. IT there" is cc thing more amusing than an English pantomime it is the English audience that go to pse it. Men, women and children who are intelligent enongh on ordinary occasions seem, under un-der tho'influence of this potent spell, to lose all control of themselves. Before the curtain rose the faces in front were expressive and even thoughtful. But when the entertainment was in full swing all sense of propriety was thrown off. The audience were carried away and delighted beyond measure, and swallowed swallow-ed the most idiotic nonsense with the broad grin that seemed to mantle tbe face of the whole house. Shont after shout went up when the clown sat on the baby; and as the cockney swell appeared, ap-peared, extravagantly conscious of his own dignity and charmed by the effect of his personal appearance, the heartless public sat in eager expectancy, well knowing that some disaster was about to befall him, and when a half barrel of flour was poured upon his devoted head they would burst forth in thqrnost boisterous bois-terous manner. Any catastrophe that occurred to tho police was always hailed with delight. Why is it that these guardians of onr safety are held in such contempt theatrically? theat-rically? When a double-dyed villain gets his quietus, and the innocent heroine is restored to the arms of the first walking walk-ing gentleman, we applaud with delight. Surely under these circumstances one would suppose it to be our duty to resent any affront offered to the "force;" but no, the slightest indignity bestowed upon a virtuous policeman, such as tho emptying of a bucket of water over his helmet, seems to give us jjy. Joseph JefferBon in Century, |