Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-02-22
The CHIMPANzEE
IS ALMOST HUMAN
Susie Shows More Sense Now
Than An Idiot

Philadelphia, Pa, February q. In
the Veterinary hospital in the Uniyer-
sity of Pennsylvania, there is a young
chimpanzee. which has created more
comment in magazines and newspa-
pers than many statesmen in the six
months she has been in America Su-
sic is the pet name given the Simian
by her master, and she is only 10
months old. She is the property Of
Prof Richard Garner, a former Balti-
morean, a Confederate veteran of the
civil war.
Susie has been classed by leading
American scientists as zone of the
greatest problems in America today"
and visit to her room, for Prof. Gar
ner will not think Of caging her, leaves
no doubt that she is a problem, AMI
that she may do more to aid science
than any man could.
She. has also been the object ii
many frivolous and humorous articles
and her ready adaptibility to new cir
cumstances and cunning impulsiye-
ness, furnish much material for fu
She learned to drink beer soon after
coming to America and she does not
hesitate to decorate her dining table
with her stockinged feet while eating
in the presence of company. She is
also very feminine in her extreme
fond ness for sweets.
4 Serious Side to Susie.
But there is a serious side to Susie
and she suggests possibilities for the
future, for the average life of the
cbimpanzee is about 20 years and at
her present age of 13 months Susie
compares with a child of three and
half years. Noted physicians, in
structors and scientists from many
cities, among them being DR.. Hudson
Maxim Of New York, have gone to
Philadelphia to see the little animal,
and it is the concensus of opinion that
she is we'll worth the attention of the
scientific world, for at her age she
has probably advanced more than any
monkey or chimpanzee ever held n
captivity, and her development has
practically only begun Many have
said that her development may settle
the Darwinian theory. Prof Garner
himself inclines to this view, and he
has devoted 20 years in the jungels
of Africa to search after facts con-
ceTung the forms of life and their
connections with human beings.
Her Advancement Rapid.
Since being placed in her new civ
LIKED environment Susie has advanc-
ed rapidly and is many times as re-
markable today as she was six months
age. when she arrived in New York.
She is having the unusual advantage
of instruction under the personal in
struction by Prof. Allan Latshaw, a
former University of Pennsylvania.
student and noted specialist on in
fantile psychology and the defects Of
infant lunatics He is the superintend-
ent Of private school for teaching
children with defective faculties, and
has accomplished important results.
Pref. Latshaw makes the startling
statement that Susie is far brighter
than any specimen of the Monaghan
type of idiocy he has ever seen, and
that development in her case has been
faster than in the case of an ordinary
6year-old idiot. He is constructing
a small melodeon and is confident She
can learn to play it. She can already
pronounce a few French and English
words when occasion demands. Prof.
Latshaw asserts and he hopes to make
her talk. His method is the same a.
that used with young lunatics, oy|
developing the brain until curiosity
causes the subject to learn words for
questions. Children, in asking in
Vulnerable questions, show the same
mental process.