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Show whyT" gjg Circus Has Cut Out . "Animal Acts" 2tiere will l'e no more whips lushing lush-ing out at imt'i-y animals In Hie center . t)ie rln jj. Lleeiiuse parents object w their children seeing men and women wom-en enter cages with wild beasts, King-ling King-ling Urothers nIul arnum & liuiley gnnouuce thut henceforth they will present no wild -animal acts either In the garden or when, under canvas, the circus tukes to the road, comments the jew York World in au editorial. Congratulations arrive from the humane hu-mane societies, Mr. Charles Rlngllng jays. For the humane societies have long disapproved of the cruelty of fflld-Bnlnial training; disapproved of whips and forks and heated bars. The Hons and the tigers of the Rlngllng Rlng-llng show retire from the arena, now, to those small steel cages which give them a foot or two of headroom. They join the ranks of all those other beasts In public zoos, equally fortunate In not having to perform In public; free to spend their days In Iron boxes with 18 Indies to spare at either end for elbow room. Man, having conquered his competitors on earth, displays them behind bars. Why? So that by watching them In an unnatural environment, en-vironment, and by shucking peanuts on their heads, and by goading them with sticks when the guard Is not around, he may study wild life at first band and add to the store of tinman knowledge. |