Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-26

time they must walt. with them also
must walt the tiger. the antelope. the
wild rabbit-proud and happy alleged pos
SCISSOR of the dreadful tsetse f1y-and the
remaining denizens Of the jungle. who are
now bowling their respective heads on
in their variegated baths.
The east African rabbit is going to have
the hardest time breaking into Smith,
sonian society. He is malefactor. mol
lycoddle and an undesirable or the worst
type. capable of sheltering miscreants
and evading the law. You wouldn't think
1t to look at him, but he is. Externally he
is a mild-eyed. long-eared little fellow.
with an appealing, "Oh. won't you please
help me get along?" air that Is irresist-
found enough tsetse fly eggs to make New
York as sleepy as Pohick, or to make
Pohick as sleepy as an Egyptian mummy,
which, by the way, is about the sleepiest
thing known.
When the professor learned OF the du-
plicity Of the wild rabbit his feelings
were hurt. He got a club and succeeded
in making the embryonic tsetse flies go
on sumbering indefinitely. After which
he turned to the soft-eyed rabbit and re-
proved It.
You will never be able to get along
WE'LL said the professor, as he carried
the wild rabbit over to one Of the pick
eled baths. unless you practice open
hearted Observation-Disclosures. Don't try
to accomplish esoteric tricks on me. 1t
doesn't go little Bit"
The wild rabbit shed a tear and prom
Used to follow in the golden path OF
righteousness, but 1t was too late. The
report Of his advent with his tsetse flies
had already gotten abroad and he was
a marked animal. Others OF the faCnal
groups whispered to each other of his
righteousness. Now they are talking
about him all the time and watching for
some move on his part which will ex-
communicate him from the society OF his
fellows forever. The rabbit has been
keeping very quiet since then.
The African animals feel very despy
this period Of probation that 1t put upon
them. They dislike excessively the idea
of waiting before they are allowed into
the front gates of mammal society. Their
dislike Is principally based on the fact
that they consider their treatment un-
fair. Aside from that they are Of the
opinion that even II it is fair and a GUS
tom In the Smithsonian they should have
been the recipients of a kindly Ieserva-
ton. Their ticket of admission was big
enough, they believe, to surmount ordi-
within the gates whether they were. a
trifle scented up or not.
The taxidermists are now preparing the
frames which are to receive the beasts.
But the placing of the animals In their
glass cages is yet long way off.
few days ago reporter skilled in
the dialect Of African beasts-wnicn Is
not much different from the dialect of
ordinary beasts when you get used to it
entered the Smithsonian Institution as
night was throwing her first dark tinted
shades across the broad green lawn. One
professor sat in little room by himself
and worked out problems undisturbed by
the coming dusk The room in which the
mammals reside was for the momen. bril-
liantly lighted by the fiery rays of a sun
which slanted almost horizontally through
the window and lit the far wall with a
wealth of flame. No one save the re-
porter WAS in the room.
With softened step he went over to where
the kirk dik-dik was clucking to itself In