Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1916 — Showman Sings of the Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace Wonders. [ARTICLE]

Showman Sings of the Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace Wonders.

It’s great to be a kid once more, and hear the lions growl and roar, and see the bears and feed the monks, and sprinkle peanuts on the trunks of the elephants, all in a row, that keep a-swiniging to and fro; it’s grand, you know, to be a kid and see that big Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Show. . . ' - - ' It’s great to sit and watch the clowns perform their funny ups and downs, and see them laugh and hear them chaff until you split your in half; and watch those blokes play wicked jokes upon some unsuspecting mokes, as fat and thin they amble in and make you squeal and smile and grin. It’s great to see the big circus parade, and swallow circus lemonade, and see the lights and wonder sights, arid pretty girls in spangled tights; and feast your gaze upon the blaze that the tent displays. Oh, once a year, it’s grand, you know, to see the circus show. After unbosoming of the above the circus man intimated that the Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus would arrive in Rensselaer Saturday, Aug. 5, aboard three special trains. Two performances will be given, at 2 and 8 p. m. The doors to the monster zoological paradise will be opened an hour earlier. A three-mile-long street parade will leave the grounds at 10 o’clock.