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Show ONLY WOMAN ELEPHANT TRAINER IN THE WORLD. The man who staited out to exploit ex-ploit a circus without the elephant would be apt to discover that he had mistaken his vocation. Because, somehow or other, whenever we think circus, e think of these huge pachyderms pachy-derms and It takes us back to mysterious mys-terious India, where princes of the J? royal blood ride In solid sller how-' r dahs, studded with pearls and pleat ple-at eon's blood rubies, j- In the old days of the big tents, mfc it was reckoned sufficient to have H two or three elephants along, and K their sbe and peculiarities alone sat-Mr sat-Mr ' isfled tho multitudes. But nowadays, 'I , when the big show comes to town and i ' makes its parade, people stand along the1 Bldewalk and eount the elephants. J Then they go over to the lot In tho afternoon and sit In judgment upon the performance ghen by these mou-strouB mou-strouB but Intelligent beasts If tho ' latter Is not up td the standard, they go away telling each other that this particular circus doesn't amount to , much. The Sells-Floto circus, which comes here on Wednesday, June 19, has always boasted of possessing the moat marvelous trained heid of ele- , , phante on the face of the globe. All showmen will tell you that they work faster than any ttiat have ever been i hefore the public. Heretofore they have always been Introduced by a. man trainer, but this year a woman was h found who could handle these huge rriT- r-n- beasts juat as well as Carl Hagenback I or any of the famous animal educators who have made history in the amusement amuse-ment world Her name is Lucia Zora, and when it is stated that she possesses all tho control of the mastors of this strange and curious art, the assertion will be backed up by the performance when the circus arrives here. Can jou Imagine jourself In a forty-foot forty-foot ring with half a dozen of these tiemendous animals curveting and capering ca-pering about you, executing what are apparently Impossible stunts, making each other perform at his appiopri-ate appiopri-ate time, never allowing any of them to mlBS their cues, and at the same time seeing to it that you oscape personal per-sonal danger? Because if you take any showman's word lor II, who has had experience, he will toll ou that no animal of the menaseno or hippodrome hippo-drome requires more careful and Incessant In-cessant watching than the elephants. Mme. Zora will appeal with the Sells-Floto herd of performing elephants, ele-phants, both matinee and evening Her advent Into the circus world as a director of elephant acts marks a new departure in amusements and avocations, avoca-tions, and possibly opens up a novel filed for feminine endeavor The Sells-Floto people still adhere to their policy of popular prices. Twenty-five cents admits to the performance per-formance in its entirety. no |