The Russellville Democrat., 1892-04-14
TWO BABY MoNkEYs.
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 The sidewalk in front of New York bird and animal shop has been blockaded every day lately with a crowd of all classes eagerly watching the antics of two baby monkeys. The monkeys are one year old. They came from Java, and cost $40 for the pair, boy and a girl. They are so very human looking that to follow the childrens example and say "the little boy monkey" and nthe little girl monkey" seems the only thing to do. Indeed, they are pathetically human, with the wisest, saddest, cutest, knowingest little faces anybody ever saw. Their big brown eyes look out so wistfully as to beget thrill of pity for the strange creatures who are, and yet are not, of our humanity.
 Many a child might envy these bits of monkeys their magnificent set of strong, regular white teeth. The monkeys are not any wiser in the care of their teeth than some chil- dren, though, for they bite the iron bars of their cage, and eat all the candy they can get hold of. It is the candy they cannot get hold of that worries them. When little human boy or a big human boy who ought to know better offers them "ehoc- olate" from the street side of the window, they look at it mournfully and say: Now, how can you have the heart to tantalize us like thati" At least that is what they mean to say. Perhaps they have not begun to talk yet, but their funny little squeaks and cries sound so much like real baby talk that may be live baby could understand them quite as well as Mr. Garner.
 But the funniest thing is to see them eat molasses candy. They are as pleased with taffy as people are-as "the rest of the people, i" one would say naturally, so comical- ly like children do they look sitting up with a big piece of taffy gripped fast in little hand, and their teeth stuck fast in it, almost pulling their teeth out or their heads off every time they take bite.
 Neither of them is too big to go comfortably into a quart cup, but every time one of them yawns he opens his mouth wide enough to swallow the other one, which, to be sure, is very bad manners, but then, they are an example for many chil- dren in their fondness for one an other Though they are up to all sorts of pranks, they are good na- tured and never quarrel or fight.
 Sometimes they have wrestling matches, and then the boy throws the girl down, of course, because he is bigger and stronger; but, girl like, she accepts the situation and turns it to her own advantage by nestling down in his arms and mak ing love to him until his head is completely turned, which is precise ly the opportunity she has been looking for to slip out of his grasp and be off. Then, presently, when he is doing a bit of gentlemanly loafng, just like a grown-up monkey, she falls upon him from aloft and punches his head, and cuffs his ears and sits down on him, fguratively and literally
 But if she thinks she has been too hard upon him then she whips her. self, as though she means it, too. These monkey babies believe in whippings-which is natural, for they look as wise as Solomon-and the spankings they give themselves and each other are exactly like the spankings that too many little hu- man children know all about, only they seem to enjoy them a great deal more. They believe in betting, too, and the little boy pats the little girl on the back, and she kisses him. Certainly she deserves to be patted on the back and applauded for aero batic exhibitions. She can hang by her toes and do everything the flying trapeze men do, and she does not charge a cent for it either. She is going to belong to the progressive school of young monkey women when she grows up. She knows all about physical culture now, and can take more poses than any Delsartean ever dreamed of.
 Like Mrs. Edmund Russell, she has her gowns all in one piece, but then, both these monkey children are very fashionable, for they wear what monkey modiste undoubtedly would designate as modified Rus sian blouse. The blouses-his and hers-are cut by one pattern, of scarlet flannel, and they have fur all around them, just like the human Russian blouse, only the fur does not come off with the blouse. New York Times.