. The Argonaut . CHOOL OF DESIGN Mark Hopkins Institute of Art This class is organized for the benefit 01 thosewho can not attend the Day Classes Drawingfrom the Antique and from Life; separate classesfor men and women. For terms apply at theschool, corner of Pine and Mason Streets, or Institute. THE BERLITZ SCHOOL OF LANCUACES Pri%ate and class lessons bv competent nativeteachers in FRENCH. ENGLISH. GERMAN, , RUSSIAN. CHINESE, JAPANESE. Over 200 schools in the principal cities ofAmerica and Europe. Send for <5fc GEORGE1O00 Van Ness Avenue Berkeley Prep
. The Argonaut . CHOOL OF DESIGN Mark Hopkins Institute of Art This class is organized for the benefit 01 thosewho can not attend the Day Classes Drawingfrom the Antique and from Life; separate classesfor men and women. For terms apply at theschool, corner of Pine and Mason Streets, or Institute. THE BERLITZ SCHOOL OF LANCUACES Pri%ate and class lessons bv competent nativeteachers in FRENCH. ENGLISH. GERMAN, , RUSSIAN. CHINESE, JAPANESE. Over 200 schools in the principal cities ofAmerica and Europe. Send for <5fc GEORGE1O00 Van Ness Avenue Berkeley Preparatory School Accredited lo the Cnivereity of California;ind Stanford. Dwight Way and Fulton Street BERKELEV J. h. WHITE. Principal. Ogontz School for Young Ladies. Twenty minutes Irom Philadelphia, two hours (romNew York. The late Mr. Jay Cookes fine circulars address Miss Svlvia J. Eastman, School P. Pa. HEALDS BUSINESSCOLLEGE, g* Post St. S. 5 THE ARGONAUT September ii, If you, my Lady Greylocks, and you, too,Mr. Dignified Adiposity, think you have for-ever outlived your infatuation for the thrill-ing excitements of the arena, go to Barnum& Baileys circus, and learn your error. Forthere you may renew the sensations of yourchildhood, and once more become an inter-jectional bundle of fearful enjoyment andecstatic terror. Why does humanity in general so love thecircus? I think it must be because all thoseartists of the ring who triumph with suchfearless calm over the limitations of thecowardly flesh—those bareback riders whonightly peril their bodies with such a casualair; those trapezists who. oblivious of theattraction of gravitation, float easily andgracefully through aerial space; those tumb-lers, acrobats, and wire-walkers, to whom arope or a bar seems as safe and comfortable young woman sensationally dare death forhis entertainment. The managers of the Barnum & Baileyshow, which begins with the usual grandmarch, made this ever p
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