Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-10

swallowed up by the rapidly falling dark
ness. 1t was just light enough to make out
that the animals feet were tucked under
a bumped body and that its dropping head
was trying hard to emulate the paws.
Hes been snoring like steam engine
since o'clock" said the guide, and he
wont wake up till morning. He's early to
bed and late to rise. When the wolves
howl. as they do several times a night, he's
the only fellow in the whole Zoo who isn't
disturbed. He just keeps snoring and
snoring, does this Kadiak bear from
Alaska
What the Roosevelt Bear Did.
For ten minutes the Kadiak heaved his
shaggy sides In exquisite heavy slumber
that would have made the sluggard that
solomon wrote proverbs about green with
envy. Then a human-like thing happened
A little black bear. which was given tn the
Zoo by President Roosevelt, and which had
been disturbed in his efforts to rest, wad-
died over to his snoring den mate and gave
him vicious swat with paw. The Sleep
Ing bear snored on. Once again the little
black bear struck the sleeper. The snoring
continued. The little fellow waited a mo-
ment, then backed away, and, rushing at
the Kadiak. landed on him with all tours.
snoring. The Presidents bear dejectedly
walked away, and his Disguised attitude
said as plainly as words:
"Drat old Kadiak! 1 can't go to sleep
while he SHORES like that"
An hour later all but the two Of the
twenty odd bears were sound In slumber
The hairy-eared bear from Asia dreamed
as he sQuatted on his launches and prop
ped himself on his paws. The four crotches
OF dead tree were occupied by as many
black bears curled up into balls. CHINA
| mon, brown and grizzly were scattered
over the rocky floors, either rolled over on
their sides or sleeping on their bellies, with
heads between paws The two polar bears
had dattened themselves like pancakes on
cliff over which the chilly night air swept
freely, and. judging from the contented
signs they emitted every little while. they
seemed to be relishing the frosty breezes
that ruff1ed up their white coats. But the
little black bear that Mr.. Roosevelt had
captured out west still paced his cage and
glared angrily and helplessly at the snor-
ing Kadiak.
The other wide awake was a big grizzly.
Squatted before his denis gate, he persist
emily endeavored to pick the lock. Half an
hour later he desisted in his vain efforts
and soon was sound asleep in front of the
gate: but one paw still reached up toward
the lock.
How the Monkeys Sleep.
Not a sound came from the primates
house until a door creaked as 1t was open
ed. Then every living thing scampered
about and chartered. The hay in the cages
ruStled, the sides of the cages ratified as
the monkeys swung up and down, and the
shelves and perches squeaked under the
burden Of disturbed animals. Pretty soon
all were settled once more and the monkeys
were seen they slept.
The little squirrel monkey from South
America was perched on a limb Of a tree
and his TAIL four times the length of his
body, stuck straight up in the air. The
rhesuS monkeys, lying on their stomachs
and with their hands under their chins, re-
minded one Of the way human babies fire.
quently sleep. A big black ape was hump
cd IL the floor and with itS head lean
ing against the cages SIDE snored away
like a major. The drills and mandrills
from west Africa sat up like toy soldiers,
and an Arabian baboon. perched above
them on its launches, let its long tail
swing down into the faces Of its smaller
cage mates.
A chimpanzee and an orang-outang. joint
occupants of a cage, had buried themsei-
yes in blankets whenever their squirm-
ings uncovered them. hairy hands would
shoot out and grab the coverings and with
the readiness of human fingers, pull the
blankets over the owners heads
In the lemurs' cage mother Instinct was
Interestingly manifested. A mother, back
up, had sprawled on the floor. Stretched
across her lay her half dozen children.
three with heads on one side. the other
heads and tails alternating, each head be-
ing hidden beneath the tail next to 1t. The
mothers body kept the chill of the tin
away from her precious babies. whose own
tails and the temperature Of the house
TO degrees-gave sufficient warmth for their
heads and backs.
The Tigers Queer Position.
In the lion house the kings Of all beasts
were found sleeping like dogs. either on
their sides. with feet held straight out or
on their stomachs, with heads resting be-
tween their paws. Two of the three tigers
had rolled over on their backs and their
feet pointed toward the cages roof, while
their tongues hung from their partly open
ed jaws. The puma, curled UP like cat.
had the back of its head on the floor, and
1t seemed to enjoy sleeping with twisted
neck. A Samaritan rhinoceros whose dis
tinguishing features, besides its general
ugiiness, were brick red hide and
scraggy coat of coarse black hair, and Its
chin resting heavily on the floor and its
feet ourled under its stomach and pointing
toward one another.
The elephants had thrown their great
bodies on their sides. and each lay as still
as q cat guarding mouse hole. Their
trunks were drawn between their fore legs.
Elephants sleep only when their keeper Is
not around. Let him appear and they will
stand and lazily swing their trunks In cir
cles as long as he remains In sight. But
once he has vanished they waste no time
trait no one has been able to explain, ex-
.cept on the theory that they are afraid.
The moonlight, shining through the win
dows OF the aviary, lighted up a small pond
and what appeared to be a score Of red,
white and brownish white balls OF some
soft material stuck on the ends OF thin
sliyers of wood driven into the ponds bot
tom. In reality, these variously colored
masses were cranes and fiamingoes, each
slumbering on its right leg and with Its
On their toothpick supports they stood as
motionless as if they were Of carved stone.