The Washington times., 1911-01-08
Educated Chimpanzee Pre-
fers to Stop at Boarding
House While Travelling.
THE HOME COOKING
CATCHES HER FANCY
Will Spend Week in the Capital
Displaying Her
Talents.

wAETED-Temporary board and lodging fol-
a highly educated young chimpanzee, re-
Gently landed VIII eat anything; very fono
Of children. SUSIE, BOX 12s, Times Office
That's what Susie, chimpanzee of cul-
ture, refinement, and education, thinks
of hotel life.
Susie and her foster father, Prof
Richard L Garner, of Africa, are stop
ping at one of the big hotels. They
will be here a week, lecturing and
holding Sinian levees. just to show that
Susie understands a great deal of
human talk and customs.
In the short year of her life, since
she was taken from the heart of the
French Congo, Susie has lived most
of her time in hotels, and so when she
was told that she would be in Wash
tngton for more than a week, she sent
her valet out quietly and without let
ting Prof Garner know anything about
Il. 70 engage board for her with plenty
of home cooking.
Susie thought of going 10 the Zoolog-
ical Park, but when she considered that
the Simians there are gleesome, flea
some aborigines, whose table manners
do not even include a knowledge of
drinking from a thin glass, as Susie
does, or sitting at a table, clad iii
rompers at meal times, she was horri-
fed at the risk she had nearly taken.
Susie condemns social blunders.
No Straw Bed for Susie.
Then, too, the Geological Simians
sleep in straw, and their mentality
doesn't usually rise above prankish
pullings at one another's tails; and
while Susie hasn't any tail, not being
that kind of a lady chimpanzee, such
boisterousness would CRATE upon her,
She says.
Susie declared yesterday that she felt
sure that anybody who met her and
oonversed with her a few minutes would
welcome her as a guest.
For the first time in SuSie's life she
knows sorrow. Although she has a fine,
big room all TO herself in the wing of
one of the best hotels of the city, and
has a Buttons" at her beck and call
most of the time, besides her black
boy, Luther, she misses the white
valet who ministered to her wants for
nearly year, but left a few weeks ago.
Susie can't see Luther. She has been
used to society, has Susie. Albeit she
was not to the manner born, she is like
n lot of real ladies, and says she doesn't
like anything that too forcibly reminds
her of her aboriginal jungle past. So
she sits and protests with little trem-
bling "Who-ooooo" whenever Luther
comes around her, and tries to make
plain that she knows something about
him that she could tell if she wasn't
such a perfect lady.
Prof. Garner says that the secret
which Susie is holding over the
unsuspecting head of Luther is that
while she and Luther were making
their trip here from Philadelphia Fri
day night, the baggage man made
Luther a bed in the baggage car on
a long packing case, which Susie de-
Clares held a corpse-only Luther
didn't know. So Luther better be-
have.
Doesn't Talk Much.
Susie is not garrulous. She talks
but little even in chimpanzee talk
Her wants are communicated, as yet
mostly by different infections of the
trembling ''who-ooo" which she en-
ploys usually in protest And so
when she interrupted her levee to pro-
test more than usually, Prof Garner
declared that she wished something
TO eat.
She brought her guests their hats, and
opened the door for them, for when
''Susie, of Africa" as she is regis
tered on the hotel ledger has guests
she's too much of a lady to go to sleep
as she wanted to do.