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Show When One's Nerve Fails: It la a curious thing, and one that I remains a standing puxile even to I thnso connected with the business all j tholr llvos, that llghl-rope, trapeze and other daring porformera who chlelly I work In th open air aro fur more II-1 ablo to sudden nerve failure and to "stttgo fr'.pht," If It may he called, than are the fellows who only show their piuwess under a roof. Another fact eijually well known Is that oneo a woman performer has heard the ringing shouts of sn applauding ap-plauding publlo, once ahe has learned some dangerous feat, sho will run risks and quite fearlessly porforin tricks that no mule In the same Hue would dream of. Tho woman athlete has not to be urged on; she has to be rnstalned, mors often than not. It may be said at oneo that few among the public know how near death such peoplo occasionally are. As illustrating both the facts state! slave tho writer ran never forgot seeing see-ing a woman tlght-ropo whom rops hid been left too slack. She was per-funnliig per-funnliig at a great height and when she got to a certain distance along the rope, tho latter sunned so that sho could neither advance nur retire. Tho public know nothing of the danger till the manager In an agony tried to get two limueuse, ludders, tied together ui to the rope. Hut this arrangement f !! hint, and oven If It bad not done so, no one would have dared to rest it asshst the swaying ropo. At last ths luidtTS were held boldly upright by trorg nio ii till tbe topmost lung Just touched tho rope, sud then tho gullanl ynucg fellow ,a tailor, went up while tha bidders swayed about as though In a bret'ie. Ho matched tho woman on tho rope and held bar. Just as shd fainted and dropped the balancing pole. |