The San Francisco call., 1910-12-04

fore his usual time he absolutely re-
fuses to have his face washed.
The first trick the baby bears learned
to perform in public was to drink out
of bottles while standing on their hind
legs. This took quite good deal OF
training and would have taken much
more if the bears had not already
known so well how to take food from
a bottle. After they had passed from
the bottle stage in real life they were
put on a diet OF bread and milk, car
rots, green corn, apples and sugar, but
in public they still continue to drink
from their bottles all standing up and
balancing themselves very beautifully
until every drop Of the sweetened milk
with which the bottles are filed is
gone. They love this drink so much
that before yellow" as their nurse is
called, is ready to give it to them they
stand on their hind legs and beg for
it so prettily that il is almost impos-
Sible to keep it from them a moment
longer. often they fly at each other
and a brotherly scuflie takes place. es-
pecially when, as sometimes happens.
there are not enough milk bottles to
go around.
BY the time they reached the New
York Hippodrome. where they have
long enga cement, the bears had be-
come very fond of performing and also
had become so mischievous that they
have to be watched all the time. In
the Hippodrome building the little
bears have q small sleeping apartment
next to that of the big bears on one
side and next to a dressing room on
the other. The partitions between the
rooms do not go quite up to the cell
ing, and there is space enough at the
top for the little bears to go over into
the other rooms. This fact has caused
no end of trouble to the bears nurse
for the little bears are terribly curious
to know what is on the other side OF
the partition, and when they do find
out they are delighted if it is some
thing that can be torn up or damaged
in any way They have a great liking
for getting hold of something that is
not their own.
One day when yellow" the nurse,
was very busy getting fresh hay for
the little bears bed and the cubs had
been left alone for a few minutes. with
only Jack, their faithful friend. a bull
terrier to look after them, all was
quiet in the nursery and the keeper
outside the door was thinking what
nice little bears they were. But sud
denly he heard a cry from Mrs. Spell
man, who had gone in to see how the
babies were getting on. The keeper
ran to the nursery but not baby
was tnefe Iney were not Idf away,
however. Looking through the door of
the dressing room, he saw them-sitting
there amidst a heap Of pink silk tat
terss They had all climbed up to the
top Of the partition and over into the
dressing room and had torn up yards
and yards of pink ribbon. which had
been made into huge bows for the
decoration of the big bears during their
performance on the stage. The big
bears looking through the barred door
Of their room into the dressing room,
saw the little ones in the very act OF
destroying their finery. but they were
powerless to prevent II. The little
bears destroyed nearly sl2 worth of
ribbon. When there happens TO be
number OF things within their reach
which they can tear up they always
prefer the soft silk things to the
heavier wOclen ones. Another day Flip
got over the partition on a solitary
adventure and tore up Mrs Spellman's
dressing gown.
Flip, who is the most independent
and perhaps the most SPOILED OF all
the bears, doesn't care for his own
sleeping quarters at the hippodrome,
and SO every night when the keepers
go 10 bed he climbs out OF the bed