El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-09
ADJUSTMENTS.



Way down in jungle town-which
IS no farther down than the Alrdone.
Lnere Is a drove Of monkeys which
COR Who) need only the tropical setting
Tor a song sketch about the Junglsz
and the monkey love.
Don Carlos, the monkey man, is
play ing an engagement at the A-EuOlle
and has converted the prOSaic summer
theater into a geological garden, anu
2 tropical jungle with his trained mon
keys and equally trained animals
cages line the sides of the staSe,
French pOOdleS sleep in the dressing
rooms and the stage IS set for the
hotel scene In which the monkeys, dOSs
and other animals Of the Don Carlos
show take part
1t is by lar the best collection Of
trained animals ever seen in FL Pas9-
Don Carlos says il took man 10000
years 70 develop from a monkey, bat
man makes a monkey OF himself
IN minute He says animals nave
the power Of reasoning that people
have and apparently proves IL by sew
eral acts IN mis- performance
As TO what dog has the most intel
lSence. ne says a dog is like nuuai.
one cog Of one species may be smart
while another may De dense, Just IKE
one German may be bright and one
dense, one lriShman may be bright
and one dense, etc he says he pre-
1ers TO train pOCdless however, as they
are the highest bred animals and Iur-
thest removed from the wolf. He de-
clares that a poodle can be released
in a flock of buffalo and the buffalo
viii never take fright, but release
common dog amOng the buffalo and
they win stampede This shows the
wonderful development OF the poodle,
also the sense Of the buffalo, he says
He has all sorts OF pOOdles, Including
a big one, almost as big as a bear
that came from Russia and has WOOL
just like a sheep This dog is raised
IN Russia for its wool
The most remarkable part Of the
performance is Don Carlos's feat with
a big French Poodle which he causes
to be suspended in midair while APP
parently under the hypnotic influence
Of its master 1t is a performance eE-
actly like those OF the Flying Won
an" so often seen in the carnivais,
except that the dog is substituted for
the woman. The dog lies rigid through
out the performance He is placed on
a small table and gradually appears
70 rise into the air The table is then
removed. the dog left suspended ap-
parently from nothing, and a hoop is
passed around the animal The table
is then replaced and the dog IS
lowered; - Few passes from Don Car
los and the dog wags his tail blinks
and jumps down
Monkeys ride horses, push baby car
riagess dance and even run a hotel A
drama with dog and monkey actors
as hotel keepers, guests, policemen,
etc, closes the show. Don Carlos does
not appear on the front OF the stage
throughout the act
Don Carlos has an original line OF
talk about monkey lore which he de-
Ivers in the form Of a lecture at each
performance To prove what he says
about the training OF monkeys he dem
Onstrates with the monkey pets OF his
collection. illustrating the various
facts of monkey training which he has
discovered in his twenty-five years
of work with monkeys and the study
Of these clowns of the animal kingdom
He opens the hand OF a big monkey /
and shows how he can tell By the life
lines in the palm, whether the monkey
has sufficient intelligence to be
trained. He demonstrates how he has
trained his monkeys TO use that use
less thumb, which has prevented mon
keys from taking hold Of things like
men.
He talks to them in monkey chatter
and they talk back, whether or not I
they understand
Little Jane puts her arms around his |
neck as affectiOnately as child and Z
Jimmie. the three-ye ar-Old monkey I
boy, crosses and increases his legs, /
Salutes and chatters when his master |
commands him. Joe, nine years old I
and as dignified as little Jimmie, Is I
giddy, sits on his stool and frOWus at I
Jimmie's bOyish antics. Jane is the I
mother monkey of the tribe. as she Z
had a baby monk at Tyler Tex, which 4
is now the pet Of the cages. His name I
is DiCkey, and he is to be trained. I
Shorty. a man eating babOOn, who I
killed a man in Portland, Ore, Don |
Carlos says, sulks in his tent like 7
receive so much attention, and JOCkO, I
the biggest monkey in captivity, is I
handled by his trainer with a long ]
pole.