Show when ones nerve fail it Is a curious thing and one that remains a standing puzzle even to those connected with the business all their lives that tight rope trapeze and other daring performers who chiefly aorl a in the open air are far more li able to sudden nerve failure and to stage fright if it may be called than are the fellows who only show their prowess under a roof another fact equally well known Is that once a woman performer ha heard the ringing shouts of an ap flauding pla c once she has learned some dangerous teat feat she will run r aks and quite fearlessly perform tricks that no male in th same line would dream of the woman athlete has not to be urged on she has to be i recta retained ined cd more often than not it may be said at once that few among the public I 1 now how near death such people occasionally are As both te tle facts sted above the writer can rever farget see ing a woman tight roop 1 whole rope had been left too lack she was per forming at a great height and when she got to a certain distance alon along the rope the la er or aged so that sha she could r neither rither ither advance nor retire the public knew of th danger till the in an agony tried to get two iramene it amene ladders tied together un to the rope but dut this arrangement fl ill and even if it had not done so no ore would rave dared to rest it against the rep rop at last tho the ladders were nere hold boldly upright by men till the topmost rung jut touched the rope and then the gallant bourg ellow lellow a sailor went up while the ladders swayed ayed about as though in irl a breze he batched nat anat ched the woman oi 01 the rope and held her just as sho fainted and dropped the balancing pole |