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...wanted to go to the circus. "But you have your tatting to do and only last night you went to a moving picture and read all the subtitles to a poor blind man who couldn't see Clara Bow and wanted. . . . But a curtain to what he wanted. Anyway, you must not go to the circus. And elephants make you sick. Now the last time...
...roommate is a sturdy fellow. Nor has he changed, in weeks. So before you could say your prayers or take a final or even find a pretty debutante, there we were at the circus with peanuts crowding their impulsive way down the leathery necks of mauve pachyderms, horses, horses, and my rooommate absent mindedly dangling a red balloon over his right tonsil...
...Ringling's agents prevailed upon her to travel with the circus and to pose as "the ugliest woman in the world" as a means of livelihood. Mr. Ringling is kind to his people and she is well cared for. But she suffers from intolerable headaches, has become nearly blind, and permits herself to be laughed at and heckled by an unfeeling people in order to provide the wherewithal to educate her four children. Beauty is but skin deep. Being a physician, I do not like to feel that TIME can be frivolous over the tragedies of disease...
...Harbin, Manchuria, an Associated Press correspondent last week cabled excerpts from the announcements of a benefit performance in a leading Harbin restaurant. The performance was entitled: "Exclusive and only visit of the world-famous circus eccentrion...
From a dabbler in the two-a-day ham-and-egg vaudeville, to a trouper in the South, to proprietor of the American Museum, and finally to owner of the great circus that now bears his name, Barnum was a Yankee, a Connecticut Yankee, to be exact, and many are the tales, of business deals that smack of the wisdom of the Nutmeg state. The reader need have no fear that he may overlook these bits of David Harum, for they are advertised, in true Barnum style, for several pages before and after the transaction...