Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1915 — THE CIRCUS. [ARTICLE]

THE CIRCUS.

How many of our older readers cam remember back to the days when all the circus shows traveled overland, or in other words by wagons? Gan you remember ’of getting up in the early morning hours and walking out from town, one, two or three miles to meet the show coming in? And if perchance you had overslept yourself, how eagerly you looked along the road for the elephant’s tracks. Circuses have changed greatly in the last 25 years. They have become much larger and more elaborate, travel altogether nowadays by rail and do not stop at the small towns they used to make, but the old sawdust smell remains the same. The same stir of excitement still attends the arrival of the circus, as in the olden days. You may not notice it for you have changed and no tthe circus. The younger generation feels toward the circus of today just as you did 25 years ago. The Sparks World’s Famous Shows are billed to exhibit here on Thursday, May 13, and they are coming heralded by the most favorable newspaper criticisms from many cities and towns where they have already exhißited. From the moment of early arrival of the trains bearing these great shows until their departure in the night it is said that every consideration will be shown the public. Those who are interested in the unloading wil Ireceive an early morning welcome at the crossway where the work is being done and may view the interesting operations without fear of unpleasant experience. Every employe of the Sparks shows have strict instructions to be polite and courteous at all times, and in no possible manner offend the most sensitive either by word or action. Nothing has been left undone that would enhance the comfort, pleasure and. peace of mind of the most aesthetic patron of this great circus aggregation.