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Show WOES OF THE INFANT ACROBAT T. P. O'Connor Rejoices That They Are Going Out of Fashion. "Is thore anything moro heartrending heartrend-ing to contemplate than tho wrenched up smile of tho Infant norobat when he often, alas! a she Is suddenly deposited de-posited on his staggering little legs by tho footlights, nrter having been spun round like a tambourine by tho feet for an inverted elder?" asks T. P. O'Connor. "I know for a fnct that acrobats are kindness itself to their children, and thnt to their health they pay the nicest care. Without such caro tho little chaps could never go through their tricks. Hut, while believing tho llfo of tho Infant acrobat to be free from home hardships, I still cannot help noticing no-ticing the effort with which tho youngster, young-ster, under the conditions mentioned, pumps up his sadly unmirthftil grin, and I rejolco to find, as must many another an-other person rejoico with me, that baby acrobats are going surely and steadily out of fashion. "It Is amazing that there should be so many people In tho world as thcro aro who can express frank delight at the spectacle of a child of tender years being spun on high by rosined feet until un-til he Is giddy and breathless, and I recall with a comforting sensp of satisfaction satis-faction tho anger displayed once by a gentleman In the nudienco of a variety va-riety theater on such a 'turn' a turn, Indeed receiving an pneore from a black whiskered foreigner, possibly the acrobat's agent, sitting In tho row In front of him. The former leaned over to tho heartless, or thoughtless, alien with tho Tlgg Montaguo whiskers whisk-ers and poured such a thunderous torrent tor-rent of abuse into his astonished ear that I thought there would have been a fearful fight. In this event I know whose part I would have preferred taking!" |