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Show nr1 a' 'V'r rS Young and Old Arc Eager to Sec Wonders of Bar-num& Bar-num& Bailey, v S . It Is a moral certainty, that no child in Salt Lake City will spend a nickel for popcorn, peanuts or candy today or. tomorrow. The. small shopkeeper might as well. close their places of business busi-ness until the end of the' week, bo far as the' trade of the children is concerned. con-cerned. There will be nothing" doing for them. . v, '. f Juvenile America is bearding ' Its nickels and dimes, and is begging more from fond papas and indulgent mamas, who have already been . Impoverished' by the constant drains that have been made upon their purses for the last fortnight. ... ... And the great Barnum & Bailey's circus, which comes here Wednesday and stays over until Thursday,-Is re sponsible for it all. What child would spend five cents for candy the day ber fore the pink lemonade and red balloon men, who come with the circus, .arrive? .ar-rive? That child is-either the possessor of more nickels and dimes than he knows what to do with, or he is mot awake to the fact that a circus is coming com-ing to town. But the little ones are not saving their nickels and dimes for pink lemonade,' lem-onade,' popcorn and peanuts . alone. TfteyVre children who have been told that 'they will depend upon their own resources for the price of a ticket to the great tented city which conceals so many- of the ' great delights of chll-hood.. chll-hood.. What child would risk his chance of seeing all the wonders that are in the big tents, which, by the way, are said to be the largest In the world, for the sake of. a bag of pre-clrcus candy? " . But there fs; not many a father who would not make a personal sacrifice if that were necessary, in order that his hopeful might be saved a disappointment disappoint-ment What is circus day, anyway, without the children? Half, or more than half, the fun is in watching the "kids." . - The fathers and mothers, who. In their childhood, saw the great Barnum & Bailey circus, revert to it ith pleasant pleas-ant memories, .even today, for the name of the sagacious Phlneas T. Barnum, who made the .circus of today what it Is. They tell with a grin of the Joke they heard about. Barnum, who went to a. restaurant one day and complained at his dinner about the pepper. "Why, waiter, this pepper is half p's," he said, with a twinkle in his eye. The waiter . was angered and called the proprietor. When the latter' was on the point of throwing the veter.an circus man out of the dining-room, Barnum explained that the p's he referred re-ferred to were the letters of which the word "pepper was composed. There are three p's and three other letters. And who does not remember the greatest elephant ever in captivity, old "Jumbo," who was killed by a train In Ohio many years ago? This old favorite fa-vorite has a double In the big circus that will reach here Wednesday, and can be seen at the tents. - There will be no parade this year, as the circus employs such a large army of men and -women that it crowds them too much to give the parade, eat the dinner before the performance and dress in a new suit of spangles before the performance. By eliminating the parade, the employees em-ployees and artists, of which class there are hundreds, are given more rest and can put up a more brilliant and dashing performance than they would be able to do after marching for hours in the broiling sun over blistering pavements. |