. The Argonaut . hievesas well. The stage mother is admitted in moderation,but she is an antidote to the Johnnie. As to thestage husband, he in the higher ranks is generally a manager for the star, a press-agent, or the like,which gives him the right to enter. Among the lowerorder of theatres in this country—such as the music-halls and variety shows—the actresss husband (orbrevet husband, as the case may be) is also even there he must have some obvious reason forhis intrusion, so he is usually classified as a satchel-carrier. San Francisco, September. 1905. IN A SIDE-SHOW TENT. A
. The Argonaut . hievesas well. The stage mother is admitted in moderation,but she is an antidote to the Johnnie. As to thestage husband, he in the higher ranks is generally a manager for the star, a press-agent, or the like,which gives him the right to enter. Among the lowerorder of theatres in this country—such as the music-halls and variety shows—the actresss husband (orbrevet husband, as the case may be) is also even there he must have some obvious reason forhis intrusion, so he is usually classified as a satchel-carrier. San Francisco, September. 1905. IN A SIDE-SHOW TENT. A Thrilline Circus Feature That Was Not on the Bill. This way to the big show. Buy your tickets forthe main tent here. The brazen voice of the circus barker rose overthe surrounding babel. On every side barkers oflesser note and smaller lung power lifted theirmetallic voices in explanatory eulogies of the par-ticular side-shows to which they were attached. Butwhile the exponent of the circus itself disdained to. Samuel Bollinger, composer and pianist. do more than point out the entrance to the big tent,the orators of the parasitic side-shows entered intogorgeous detail, and their monotonous climax, Onlyten cents, one dime, appealed to the economical. Behind one of the side-show tents, wherein a manwith an elastic skin shared the honors with a pink-eyed Albino, stood a girl of some twenty years of age,holding to the canvas flap of the dressing-room whileshe chatted to a young man but slightly older thanherself. Expensively dressed, with perhaps a little toomuch jewelry. Jim Rice considered himself a livingrefutation of the adage anent the advisability of beinghonest. As far as he knew, he had never been honest,certainly not since he had grown old enough to knowbetter; and at present he made a good living as oneof the protected pickpockets without whom no circusis complete. Incidentally, he had formed one of thefeverish affections peculiar to his class for the girlto whom he sp
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