Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-14
Bunch of New Babies
Expected Here Today

A bunch of new babies Is due here today.
These babies are not to be put in any
foundlings' home, because each one is &C.
companied by its mamma, who would make
things exceedingly interesting for anybody
who approached her darling child.
These are sweet and good babies. They
do not cry at night, and they do not eat
the paint Off their dolls. One reason for
this most exemplary conduct Is that they
have no dolls. and instead of crying at
night they howl or shrek or trumpet, as
the case may be, and the fiat dweller who
resided in the same building with them
would rather have whole half orphan
asylum turned loose under his window than
single one of these infants. These babies
are junior members of Ringing Bros cir
Gus. The list of babies includes an ele-
plant, several lion cubs, tiger triplets,
quantity hopping kangaroo, tight-eyed
black pantherS and weakened, double
hump camel.
The baby elephant was born In Baraboo,
Wis. and has been petted and catered to
until it is as vain as popular young actor
Last week she was caught smoking cigar
cite by her mother Alice. prim dame al
most tall enough to shut out the sun and
with age ear-marks of half a century. An
elephant named Fanchon. a frisky young
thing, with thin legs and lampblack eyes,
got Baby Boo into the cigarette trouble
Fanchon spent winter in Paris. on her
way to America, and it was there she &C
quired the cigarette habit of Bohemian life.
The baby camel looks like lamb Of the
same kind the famous Mary used to own.
1t is a double hump camel, but being young
and tender, it couldn't be expected to hump
itself much yet.
The two groups OF little lions have had
better fate than befeu some of their kind
born in Ringing Bros winter quarters a
year ago. 1t is the custom not to feed the
cat animals any meat on Sunday. The first
Sunday after the other little lions were
born no meat was given their mother, and
the next day the care taker found that the
mother lion had killed and commenced to
eat her little one. Since this experience
the new mother lion Is given as much meat
as she wants every day in the week and
two helpings on Sunday. The mamma kan
CARGO is having lot of trouble teaching
her babies to do the kangaroo walk in the
proper manner. The baby Is anxious to
learn, haWever. and waddles In as close
imitation of her fashionable mamma as her
young legs will let her.
1.-THE baby tiger Is like baby human; 1t
is on the go most of the time, and now and
then nature steps in and makes 1t sleep"
The speaker has spent the cream Of his life
in the study and care of wild animals. L
have In my charge now" continued Mr..
Souder. three tiger kittens that look as II
they would live to accept the theory that
They are like purr1ng kittens when fondled
and made anything of, and the mother. an
unusually high-strung creature, does not
seem to worry over these attentions. The
tigress is a suspicious creature by nature
and apt to fly off suddenly. When babies
come to her she is worse than ever and 1t Is
just as well to keep out of reach, even
though she keeps still and. doesn't snarl.
The reason she does the unnatural thing of
eating her little ones is because of the fear
that they may be taken away from her
while still helpless. She is much more fond
of her babies than the liOness and worries
about them longer. When lion cubs get big
enough to shift for themselves the mother
becomes Indifferent. She acts as If she felt
she had done her whole duty in protecting
them until they got big and knowing
enough to fight for themselves. The tigress
Is more sensitive in every way. When her
babies get big enough to play she Is a pic
ture of good feeling, but If they get out of
her sight or hearing she becomes wildly
anxious and nothing will soOthe her until
the little ones are snuggled up under her
motheriy wing. The youngsters In the wild
animal nursery of Ringing Bros. men
agerie are my special pride and care. 1t is
a comfort to me to see them sleep soundly
and often. 1t Is the same to see them romp
and wrestle and fool and play "a good deal
of the time every day. When boy or
girl bubbles over with the spirit Of play it
doesn't take a doctor to spell that he Is
sound and growing. You can read the
health of wild animal In the same way"