Show AN HOUR IN A CIRCUS HOW IT LOOKS IN TILE DRESS INOnOOM Ito Natter flow short III Time the Artists Are Always llrdr Kindly and eympothell opl leers Will lug to AM Others Special Utter USY beee are what o the women performers B per-formers of n circus QJ appear In the tent allotted to them aa n a dressing room t The active life of the ring does not affect their Industrious Indus-trious habits Indeed A In-deed It may only Intensify them for when they leave tho gaze of the admiring ad-miring and applauding public some of them not only have to rub to make anew new toilet for a new act but they darn their stockings mend their bespangled be-spangled gowns and wash their pink tights like tho moat commonplace of housewives Hut no matter how short a time they bare In which fallen tho gorgeous raiment In which they are to please the hundred of boys and girl there la I always plenty of time to lend a helping help-ing hand to button up a frock which fattens In tho back or to help tlo some long airing which keeps on ono ot the many dainty white petticoats of tho bareback rider Kach ono helps her neighbor and they hove them on each side for moil womans place la I In front of her big circus trunk The two or threw feet In front of It la homo At let It la I for tho most ot her summer IT7 I for theio professional women so dearly loe tholr life that they do not often caro to wander far away from tbo I tent Many a society belle would wonder won-der bow those women could make tho I elaborate toilets they do all In together II togeth-er Then their acts are on they close their trunks and there Isnt a lot of gowns ribbons hats nod shoes strewn about No Indeed thn fond mamma I who haa taken tha greatest amount of pains with her daughters education aII i aIIay JAI ° IN TIIC DRESSING 80011 and bringing up would sigh it she could lea that dressing room and with abe had been aa successful teaching neat habits to her careless daughters Everything has a place and la In It They all alt on their trunks after finishing fin-ishing dressing for their acts and await their turns to go on Wo know when we are wanted by the music answered HISS Ashton to the writer aa ahe put ono lace trimmed trim-med skirt after another on her handsome hand-some figure Wo can tell from here everything that la going on In mo ring by Ibo music We usually allow three acts to go by In which to get ready no wo readily tell time by what li going go-ing on In the ring Instead of by a watch Aa the women returned from the ring they talked ot how their performance perform-ance had gone and whether It had been satisfactory to them or not Each one was Interested In what had taken place to her companions and If professional Jealousy existed the women wom-en kept It well out of eight Ono told Tbtt a dear girl Jessie Miller the errnetlst was and all agreed that Ella Hwlng the hlggcat woman who ever lived was Just aa nice aa she could bo Nona of them had known this girl giantess before thla summer but when she wandered Into the dress Intent In-tent accompanied by her nice looking mother alto was greeted on nil aldra How do you do MISS Held asked the biG girl of the countess who sat before her trunk making lama sort ota ot-a pretty neck dressing 1 came In to see It you wore better Oh I nm much better thank you returned the great tandem driver I only felt badly for n few days I dont think your mother looka well though and yore ought to maLo bit take Some tonic Then In the moil unprofessional way those women discussed tonics and later with true feminine zeal talked 01 whether plate face powder or whit was moat becoming Near by the pretty Italian girl 1 wa llae 1t7 turning somersaults and every lira would come up without a fine black I hair out of plo Uho took up a little moro room than was allowed her but no ono complain and all squeezed nearer to tho trunks when pining by I The only lady clown on earth sat near by making herself look as funny as she really la but no amount of ugly red paint nor black crayon could spoil I the beauty of her lovely brown eyes |