SHE TAMES LIONS
But is Afraid of Toads If you met Mademoiselle Violette D’Argens at a tea party you mignt guess her profession as a violinist from her slim-tapered fingers or as a French modiste from the smartness of her your eyebrows may carry a definite bit “Whatever made you take up liontaming as a career?” a “News-Chroni-cle” reporter asked her. “As a child I was always wanting father to take me to zoos and menageries,” she replied. “My father did not approve when I begged to be a lion-tamer; he wanted me to marry. “He relented, and two years ago I was apprenticed to a lion-tamer. I clothes, but, as a lion-tamer, never. Then one day, about a month after I started, I found that I was in the cage alone.” “Are you afraid of anything?” I queried. “Yes,” she admitted, “only on thing: I am terrified <4 toads and when I see one I run for my life!”
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 111, 3 February 1934, Page 15
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160SHE TAMES LIONS Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 111, 3 February 1934, Page 15
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