The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-11-01
SONNY Boy AND "BALDT.'
Little Chap Chief chum and Play
mate Of chmpanzee as Big as
HimseIf--A Day at the Zoo with
Strange Pair-cIever Book ~
DonaidsonviiIs Girl.
(New York Hera1d.}


New York Herald.)
s. There is a little boy OF Ne"
York city whose small feet nave
barely mastered the business or Walk
ing and whose busy tongue still trlps
adorably over his consonants who Is
the chief chum and playmate OK q
chimpanzee as big as himself.
The little chap is Stanley Chspy
Arthur. Jr.s-"sonny Boy for love
and the chimpanzee is Baby
adored of all youngsters and one OF
the best-knoWn animals in the NE"
York Geological Park. From the
time 'fSonny Boy arrived at the SIT
up-and- take-notice age he has been
q constant visitor to the ZOO, coolns
and growing at the wild animals from
the laces and fluffs OF his perampula'
tor. and establishing q camaraderle
and good fellowship with each and
every one of thems and winch even
Sultan. the majestic lion, recognized
with a sort of kingly condescensloh'
Badly, who can do almost anything
but talk and who is the admiration
Of every small visitor to the ZOO, SIN
gled out "Sonny Boy for his parucu-
lar friend and would Whoop with JOY
and cut capers OF delight whenever
tho dimpled face of his little play
mate appeared among those OF the
MANY children who crowded the
aisles of the Primate House. Baldy
would thrust one long, hairy arm
between the bars of his cage and,
chattering rapidly in tongue winch
"Sonny Boy" seemed to understand
perfectly, the two would shake hands
and say things to each other that
both appeared to find amazingly IN
teresting.
AS time passed on and the IN
timacy grew, Fred. Engelholm, one
Of the keepers in the Primate House,
would frequently take Badly from
his cage, and in room shut off
from the rest of the place Sonny
Boy" and the big ape would roll and
romp all over the floor together.
When Sonny Boy began to find
his feet and daily grew more profit
cient in the art of balancing him.
self upon these ridiculous pink ex-
tremities, he and Badly would walk
hand in hand about the zoo. visiting
greetings with all the other animals.
They were familia sights to the
great white polar bear, the hippopo-
tamus, the lion, the Walrus-in fact,
every animal in the zoo, from the
long-necked giraffe to the dumb lit
tie dingo, hailed them joyfully with
grunts or groWls, according to the
nature of the beast.
In all their rambles Badly was I'M
failingly watchful of his little charge.
Sometimes on these occasions Keep
er Fred would dress Badly up in a
miniature keepers uniform, which
the chimpanzee donned with prodigi-
GUS pride and which he specially
liked to wear in company with his
little playmate.
BY the time 'sSonny Boy could
Jusd his tongue as well as his feet
he knew all the animals by the
names their keepers had given them.
He would call the hippopotamus
"Pete," the giraffe Romeo" the
wart hog Clarence the lion "Sul-
TAM the buffalo Sitting Bull.
the polar bear "Silyer King" the
grizzly Engineer" and the Walrus
Flip" And although animals are
not supposed to talk, anybody who
believed in fairies could readily have
converted certain grunts and groWls
into something that sounded re-
markedly like Sonny Boy"
Not many boys and girls in this
country have had the opportunity to
study natural history in the way that
Sonny Boy" has, who was born so
close to the big iron fence that
shuts in the animals of the New
York Geological Park. but his own
remarkable opportunities have been
made the subject of book in pic
lures and verse that is being issued
by the Century Company of New
York, and which is called 'Sonny
Boys Day at the Zoo" The jingles
are by Ella Bentley Arthur, and
the pictures, which are actual
photographs, are by Stanley Clisby
Arthur, Sr.
In the pictures, "sonny Boy is
shown in front of the cages of thirty
Of the best known animals. and there
are other photographs besides of the
beasts and birds themselves, just as
they really are and not as some ar
fist imagined they should be- Son
NY Boys Day at the Zoo" is the first
book of its kind that has been issued
for little folk in which the illustra
tions of the creatures Of the wild are
of actual photographs.
Through the medium of this I'M
usual book little people here, there
and everywhere may become better
acquainted with the strange animals
that inhabit the zoo And though
many Of them may live thousands Of
miles from this enchanted spot. with
fired by these really re-
narkable photographs they may walk
n fancy with Sonny Boy" and
Badly in the midst of the biggest
md most wonderful collection of ami
nails in the world
Orders for this clever and extreme
V interesting book may be placed To-
ally through G. D. Bentley. The
rice is 81, postpaid.
Senators Williams and Vardaman
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