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INGLING
BROS.
ARN
UMS
AILEY
GREATEST
EARTH
IRCUS WORLDO
CIRCUS
11973 RINGEING BROS
BARNUM& BAILEY CIRCUS WORLD, INC.
SHOWCASE
Presenting wondrous shows and colossal attractioms
offered by the world's largest, grandest, best amusement
institution
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey.
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THE MISSION OF AMUSEMENT
from the 1899
Ringling Bros. Route Book
"To be good, mankind must be happy. To
wreathe the face of humanity in smiles for a
time, to loosen the chains that hold man captive
to his duties and return him to them better fitted
for his obligations, is the mission of amusement
and the one great desire of moralists is, and
ought to be, that it be pure and wholesome.
Amusement unfetters the mind from its en-
virons and changes the dreary monotony of the
factory's spindles to the joyous song of the
meadow lark. It gives flight to the caged soul
to treat in airy places. It softens the wrinkles
of sorrow, makes smiles of frowns.
This is the mission of amusement - and the
circus, with its innocent sights of joy for the
children and its power to make all men and
women children again for at least one day,
comes the nearest of any form of amusement
to fulfilling this mission.”
By Alf T. Ringling
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