The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-03-26
The Baby Monkey.

other day, having an invitation to make
call on the baby at his homo and nur.
sery in Central Park, New York. AS I
hurried along of an early morning, I
felt like saying to the people in the
streets, spray make way for me, for, just
as you see me, I am going to pay an i'm
portant visit"
The fact is, that it is not every one
who was allowed to see the infant, not
80 much on the child's personal account,
az for the reason that his mamma gets
her back up, not liking visitors, and then,
besides, the director of the geological
collection is afraid that too much cold
air might give baby cough or some
thing.
Little Yawcob is the second child of
Mrs. Jenny and Mr.. Jacob, and the
father and mother are Macaque monkeys,
who came FROM Africa. Baby's nursery
is comfortable cage, surrounded With
wire, and to the front is plate Of glass.
Back of the cage, couple of feet of,
run steam pipes So though the tempera-
ture outside was at the freezing point,
inside the building it was IS deg, Fab,
renheit.
Baby Yawcob is about six inches
long, not counting his tail, which may DO
an additional five inchea. He looks
mixed, something like rat aud tsdpole,
but his cunning little head redeems him.
It is ever so wise little head, with two
iuquisitiye beadlike eyes, and he keeps
them uncommonly wide open. Just like
any other first class baby, he always seems
to want to find out exactly what he can
do, aud so he Keeps doing it. When his
afectiouste mother is not cuddling him,
he is diligently climbing up the wire
netting, putting out one paw carefully
after the other; and he is indefatigable.
He would like to shin up ever 80 far, but
his anxious mamma eyes him closely,
and then, seizing him by the tail, pulls
him down again to her perch. Yawcob's
tail is convenient for catching him with,
and it answers to what would be long
skirt on the regulation crawling baby.
Mrs. Jenny's love for her little one is
intense; her care of him constant.
Though he is very bothering baby, she
never tires of his pranks. After be has
made his explorations up the wire mesh.
-es,. she takes him, hugs him to her hreaet,
and nurses him. Probably he has been
going on that way for many hours, and
she is quite worn out. Then she holds
him fast and INDUCES in a cat nap-that
u.s. providing q monkey can take cat
nap.
While I was looking, her breakfast WAS
served. 1t was:aripe banana. She was
not at all greedy, but divided her atten.
tion between the banana and baby. She
munched the fruit, holding it in one
hand, while the. other was round the
baby. Yawcob noticed the banana and
took nibble, and that seemed to please
his mamma.
There is another Mr.. Jacob, and he is
a man, the keeper of the monkey house,
and this Mr. Jacob is on close terms of
intimacy with Mra. Jenny, for she seems
to regard him as ifhe were her head
nursery maid. But when | presumed,
on my invitation of course, to approach
near her going to the back Of her cage,
she was not at all nice or polite. She
made fearful face at me, showed me
her teeth, lifted up q threatening paw,
and scolded me. Evidently, in. her poor
monkey mind the idea was that I waS q
horrid, bad man, intent on kidnapping
her darling.
Baby's father, who lives in the same
box cage, one story higher, is not allowed
to keep company with his wife and child.
he has no responsibilities. All monkeys
are curious, and so occasionally the father
monkey will take peep through crack
at the occupants in the apartment below,
and, as likely as not, he asks Mrs. Jenny
in simian language: "Haying a good
time2 And oh I say, how is the little
chap getting on? Upon my word, he is
quite good-looking; just like me-"
Ispent an hour watching them, and
Yawcob never seemed tired. He was
always climbing up the wire, and always
being hauled down again. Then his
mamma would fondle him, and be would
stay close to her breast for twenty seconds,
and then would wiggle out of her EN-:
braces, and go at once to climbing. Of
course it was amusing, but what I could
not bnt notice and admire was the great
love the monkey mother had for her little
one.-Harper's. Young People.