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Show ForewordTN THE forepart of this book, you have seen the college year 1927-28 in all its pomp and splendor, pink tinged through the romantic eyes of youth. Beautiful. Charming. Alluring.With the Sideshow we present campus life, not as it appears, not as our worthy friends, the faculty, would have us see it, but as it is.In the Sideshow of life we are short-changed one momentâ€"short-changers the next. The Big Top presents the spectacle but the Sideshow reveals the details. We are in a continuous performance twenty-four hours a day, alternately spectators and performers, now behind the bars and again in front of them.â€"Don't feed the animals.â€"Jump when the whip snaps.â€"Look pretty for this lady.â€"Show your teeth to that man.To those of us who are privileged to look behind the scenes and see the performers without their makeup â€"the Dogface Boy reading Emersonâ€"the Bearded Lady smoking his pipe and discussing morals with the tramp Clownâ€"the Sideshow of life. A great glorious adventure.But the 'show' must go on, soâ€""Step right ovah and see the seven wondaahs of the modern world for the small sum of ten cents, one thin dime, the tenth part of a dollah. The show starts inside immediately. |
