The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-15
PETER, WISEST OF APES, ROOMS
 DARWIN'S STOCK
ON SKATES THIS PETER IS A WONDER, AND AS A CYCLIST. HE IS BETTER THAN MOST OF THE HUMAN SPECIES.

OMAN SFEC4ESs
 If you want to be converted to the Darwinian theory, see Peter. In the view of that philosophy Peter is an unfortunate cousin, who. in the en- vironment of his ancestry, thousands of years ago. missed something, and, therefore, became. not man, but a monkey, very like man.
 There have been millions of Peters line since evolution began it's fear fully slow work of differentiating man from a common ancestor of the siTnian type. Peter has done better than most of the others. He probably has great CT capacity than most of the others. But he has undeniably been fortunate in his surroundings, in that he has enjoyed exceedingly intelligent human associates, has profited by their exam- pie, and is now '.Near-man." t.s-aA~ee -
 Could Peters descendants, if they should for many generations have a similar environment, become super men"
 This is the question that makes Pe- ter about the most interesting propos- ition that has recently appeared in vaudeville.
 He goes down into the issues of crea- tion. The hardened theartegoer who sees Peter do those wonderfully hu- man stunts must ask himself if man was indeed hurled, ready made, in- to the universe, or whether that so wonderful intellect of his, had an ori- gin infinitely more humble than Pe- ter's mind, and has become, by means inconceivably tedious, whatever it now is?
 Peter looks like a man; like an ab- original man. He has hands and feet that are very human. His jaw is little preparations, and his dome of thought retreats, but there are men with the same kind of jaws whose domes of thought are not so very con spicuous.
 Besides. Peter has a nice head of hair, and many of those others are bald headed.
 But Peter has his special gifts. If in some points he seems not to be human, in others he is super-human. He can skate better than 75 men out of a hundred. He can ride bicycle better than Darwin could. Of. this there is no doubt.
 Darwin could classify Peter all right, but Peter can ride a wheel be- tween closely spaced bottles and never score a hit. There IS some speed to Peters riding.
 Peter leaves you puzzled any way you take him. He is so very like a man.
 Peter is supervised in his stunts by
 
 McArdle, the latter cute little girl.
 Now Peter can osculate as well as any body. He performs this absolutely human feat of his own volition.
 But who does he kiss? Is it McAr- dle? McArdle is not so young and has white hair and is not especially a beauty.
 It is Miss McArdle? She is very young and wears short skirts and is, in. short not of kissable years?
 But Mrs. McArdle is young and good looking and altogether attractive.
 Now of those three, if you were a man, and had a choice, who would you kiss?
 That is who Peter kisses, and isn't that just like a man? IF
 It is worth travelling miles to see Peter put up his vaguely human coun- tenance to indulge in the distinctly hu- man luxury of a good, resounding smack.
 Peter also kisses his hands to the audience. or rather is long fore finger, making a distinct osculatory sound with each effort.
 Naughty man, go thou and see Pe- teri Remember. that. like you, he is a vertebr9e, mammal of the order of prin1ates and that in the biggest part If him, muscle bone, sinew, nerve and brain, he is like yourself. Indeed if Peter were dissected and the parts of him laid side by side with the ele- ments that make up the structure of a man it would be exceedingly difficult to tell which was man and which was Peter.
 The rest of the show is good There is Elsie Boehm, who is frail little woman. but sings in a heavy baritone There is Vernon a clever ventriloquist. Lester & Manning give f''rhe Little Emigrs nt." which is not bad.
 rIa Q~ duce '"The Onion Trust" in which there is dope fiend.
 Also an excellent act is that by Charles, W. McDonald. the Lish Beau Rrummel and the Misses Crawford and Montrose. The Irish medlies and dances were especially tasteful to the house.