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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 47, 20 March 1909, Page 3

Before we estimate too severely Hie eruellies of Die Spanish hull-ring (says the Argonaut) we would do well to take stock of the growing taste in our own countrv for those " Uivilllnji" spectacles i,.mlf|port;s, which «T'l'™' to the on d,e on the score of Hie dangers involved m Uiem—and which do not appeal in vmn. In evevy Instance the man-or ino"c comnionlv the woman—who consents to lip strapped to a machine while it turns n s.rmer.siuill in the air, runs a 'frightful hazard, and almost unfailingly every such "performer" co\.<.3 to a tragic end. Tin. most serious pari of the business liowever, lies in its nervous and moral cll'wts upon those who turn to such ■•sport" for amusement. If the bull-i-incr has been an evil influence m Spam, fiporta of loop-the-loop type " ; re hound to lie mischievous here. It is inevitable Hint those win) have Venule accustomed lo amusements whose interests lies i" Iho hazard assumed hv the performer, will lose all taste for natural and wholesome entertainment. They (ire certain In develop a hind of abnormal craving which is not to lie satisfied with normal Uiiin'S. We have not much faith in law as a means of regulating popular con-| duct much less popular taste. Hut if there is anv way by which Hie, youth of the country may he saved from the demoralisations which am.inpny intense and unnatural sports, it ought speedily lo he found. Grown-ups. perhaps, have a vigh't. s'tu'phl and 'foolish though, it I nv.iv he, to amuse themselves with nerve i racking spectacles ; hut snrelv it is a public (lnt" to snfeiriinrrt clvbb-n "'"l-' such abominations.