New-York tribune., 1907-01-10
BRUNO, THE BLACK BEAR
adopted by Woman and Brought
Up 1cith Fire Children.

Everybody has heard of RomuIus and Remus
and the old gray wolf that sucked them. and
almost everybody has heard Of Mowgli, who
brought up out of the kindness OF her heart and
because of her curiosity concerning man by the
Mother Wolf. In the with her family OF
little wolves. But sometimes the order Is re-
versed Sometimes 1t is animal baby that is
nursed and tended and raised" by a human
mother along with her human baby
That what happened in the Strange Tale
of the North Woods which Professor William
L. Underwood of the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology. told yesterday in Carnegie Lyceum
for the benefit of the Babies Hospital There
was big audience of little folk present. who
broke into all sorts of shrilI laughs and chir
rups at the most unexpected places. especially
when the showed Bruno investigating
toad helping little girl play with her doll, or
having his milky mouth wiped
Bruno the little black bear baby that goe
adopted. Ursula the nine-months-old hu-
man baby whose mother did the adopting She
had five children Of her own, all under five years
and two of them adopted. but when lumber
man brought in the tiny blind thing. shrinking
and shivering. bigger than a gray squirrel
and weighing only half pound. her mothers
heart warmed 10 II.
TITS got to die If I don't take it." she said to
herself. Then to the lumberman. Give IL TO
me-"
Her own baby was a rat. Growing youngster
of nine months at the time and she was bringing
her up pork and beans by way OF making her
hardy for the life that was before her. So shs
threw the human toddler and the four-legged
toddler in together and brought them both up
Professor Underwood had heard rumors of the
queer arrangements. He longed to see the bear
with his eyes and buy IT. When he heard
I the bear had been sold he in despair. When.
later, he heard it had not been sold he took
hf-od
pony and started a twenty<mile ride over
two feet of snow to the lumber camp where
Brunos foster mothers husband was cook
What do you ask for your bear?' he asked
the lumberman's WIFE
She replied in good down East fashion with
another question: What do you suppose ask
for my baby?'
''rm not in the market for babies" said he.
"and I don't know what the latest quotation Is
In babies"
Well" said she. ''Id as soon sell you my baby
| as my bear-so there! But what 1 do want
| you to do is to think up a nice name for my
! baby girl-a name thatH have bear in it some-
| how. Will you?
| We've scratched the hair off our heads try
| ing to think of one" put in the lumberman-
| Professor Underwood said he would. and all
! the way back to Boston he kept saying over TO
| "Bear-bear-what would be a suitable name
| for little girl who was brought up with
4
| At last it came to him-"Ursula." 1t was
| good name with q history and tradition behind
! it, and meant Just what it ought TO mean TO
| fill the bill-"a little she-bear So he sent
] the name back into the heart of the North
| Woods. and with il souvenir spoon with
| little bear perched on the top of the handle.
| "a,6 tbe,~ Dac1a5 ,be babv Ursula - he told
I his hearers yesterday. But they tucked in
\ Underwood between that and her surname
| and they call her Lala.'
| From weighing only half a pound Bruno had
| now grown to be woolly chocolate brown bear
of twenty pounds or So very iona OF Jam anu
| very fond OF his foster sister. Soon he was SO
| big and strong that his human mother wrote
| Professor Underwood she was afraid she would
/ have TO part with him. The day the Boston
/ professor drove through the delicate veil-lfks
| green of the June forest TO the lumber camp
| with wooden box the taiboaTd OF the
| wagon to carry away Bruno was day OF
| mourning in the lumbermans family. The lum-
| herman had lump in his throat so big you
] could see it. All the children were crying and
/ the poor human mother when she caught sight
| of the wooden box threw her apron over her
4 head and broke down completely Underwood
4 felt like murderer.
| Bruno hadn't been two days at my summer
| camp" went on the lecturer. before ne had
4 ripped off every mosquito bar in the house. To
L make up for ii he killed every fly He would
. stand upon his hind legs and slap with hts
paw at every fly he saw Each slap sonls
| hy's death blow. We tried wean him cows
milk but he got the stomach ache and swelled
up till he as broad as he was long and
/ cried and bit his paws, and finally we had to
/ return to condensed milk and water. At the end
| of the summer brought him back with
! to my house at Belmont. where he and the cook
| became great chums- For 30 cents bought
| him a fox terrier for a playmate and the two
were inseparable" But Bruno was now growing
! at the of two pounds a week. weighed
| seventy pounds. and was nearly tall the
! professor.
| what is going TO become OF the bear7''
| people would ask.
| But others put it, What is going to become
| of Underworld CThey thought he would be the
/ one to go first.) So when he was two years old
| reluctantly they parted with him to a friend
/ with a big cage.