Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Life Compared to a Circus. [ARTICLE]

Life Compared to a Circus.

Take it all and all, writes “Amber," life is something like a circus tent pitched on the shore of the big blue lake of eternity for a fleeting day. If,, as we stroll through the show, we persist in stirring up the tigers and aggravating the lion’s whelps we need not complain that to us there seems to be nothing but wild beasts and snarling flpngs in the big exhibit. If we spend Our time in the sawdust ring laughing at the clown, or if we find our fancy chiefly tickled by the sylphs who bound through paper rings and cling like flies to the gleaming backs of galloping horses, our minds will take a different coloring altogether. But if we slip away often to the outlooks, where from out the rim of loosened canvas we can catch strong whiffs of a purer air and gaze far out upon the peaceful sea, then indeed shall we keep serenest minds and most healthful bodies.