Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-12-15
The Family Friend.


glimpse of his visage. There is the
abandon in the welcome of the elders
One thing, assuredly, there is not
, that awful perfection of subduec
children, of alert omestics-whicl
falls like a malediction upon house
hold at the sound of the fatal wore
company Life blooms and bios
SONS. All are young. Crows'-feet
and wrinkles are but myths. All are
} admirable. The father, who erst.
while had breathed out threatenings
of stringent measures, beams proudly
upon his offspring. The mother s
heart leaps up with the triumph OF
her earliest motherhood. "No home
so charming !'' cries the friend; mol
knows what sop he has thrown to
Fortune. ''Thy wheel and thee we
neither love nor hate, sings this he
tuned family in sudden chorus.
accommodated be the one who could
now recall an unqualified wish So,
for few blessed hours, all are de-
lighted and delightful together.
There are friends of the head :,
whose currency is thought. For
them, too, we return fervent thanks.
But these family friendships of the
| baart In +boCo do ua StOra f,ur traac
ure-the love and the faith which be-
comes dimmed in daily living, the as
piration which dull convention does
its best to smother, the very best that
is in us and in our nearest and dear
est. We store it up in those bright
days, Victor Hugo's ideal heaven,
when the children are little and the
parents are young; and, too, in the
dark days which shall yet brighten in
memory, like clouds in the sunset 5
the whole checkered way. And we
have for our "open sesame" the sad
ly sweet legend, ''Do you remember?"
Nor moth nor rust of the world
shall consume this treasure. Thieves
of life or time shall not break through
and steal it. It enriches all days.
But its rarest enrichment is for those
days which Browning, true time con-
conqueror, calls
ssTba last of life for which tho first was made >,
the days when we and our friend sit
beside the embers with white locks,
calm eyes, and quiet hearts; when
our young son finds a patent Of no
bility in the proud words, "my ia
theirs friend % when the golden
thread of a love story is spun between
u.s. Most of all is it for that divin-
est day when we sit at last alone,
and know that by the vacant place
beside us Immortality is proven.
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The lion tanner is highly intelli-
gent young man, who, born in the
United States, went to Germany in
his youth. In Hamburg he associat-
ed with leading firm, the Jamrach,
of Germany. and so, having animals
in his charge, became familiar with
handling them. Travelling for the
business, he made frequent visits to
Africa and Asia, collecting animals.
In commercial sense, considering
lions and tigers as cattle to be bought
and sold, he became thoroughly ac-
quainted with their ways and in
stincts. Certainly it was the only
school where such quiet mastery over
savage animals could be acquired.
sit is very long business" said
Mr.. Darling; call my animals have
been two years in training. Why, it
takes all offs two months to make a
lion sit in chair, and stay there.
cannot vaunt general intelligence in
lions: it is rather individual. L have
had some fine young lions, superb in
body, that had no brains. Not wick
ed or cross, but simply stupid. 1t
was tendency to forget tomorrow
all that had been acquired for months
before But | can't always tell. Leo
is my best pupil. He never was ugly,
but once | gave him up and sent him
off, he was so dull; then took him to
school again; and L know no lion
second to him now in intelligence and
docllity. This is the point. Lions
don't want to do things. They just
don't want to. Now you must make
him. Punish him, and you make him
your enemy; afraid of you and he
gets worse, not better. | coax him
and talk to him in English, for En-
glish is the best language for COM
mand. The seesaw and the veloci-
pede are difficult tricks. Not one lion
in a thousand can be taught to keep
his balance. They mostly tumbled
off. Perhaps in that performance
their highest intelligence is called
into play. The velocipede requires
careful lion, and | have just the right
one. 1t is nice work to get the exact
pose and keep it; but what gave me
the most trouble was the chariot per-
Torrance. A lion must have had an
original contempt for that kind of
business. You see am busy har-
Messing up one lion while the others
are perfectly free. The art has been
to make the others come up Of their
own accord. For months [ had one
lion tearing round alone, and the rest