The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-31
'That Ones Got Pants on, Mama," He Points
 Out
MAD A DELIGHTFUL
 AFTERNOON AT zoo
Miss Fancy Begs for Peanuts and He Is Pleased-Owl Winked at Him. Wading Pool the Final
 Stopping Place

At the zoo yesterday afternoon many
 kiodies called to see Miss Fancy" the
 children's elephant and crowd Of
 apout 100 little ones continually moved about her home on the hill above the
 other animals.
 A particularly interesting couple was
 a young mother, dressed in the latest
 fall fashion, with cutaway coat. the
 design of which apparently was taken
 from 8 checlxerboard With her littla
 son. pretty little fellow about years
 or age, dressed in the most summery
 garments for baby imaginable.
 The pair moved toward the animal
 cages Baby wanted to go down to
 the wading pool. Mother called his at
 tention to the elephant and he imme-
 diately declared he must see her first
 or all They reached the fox cages and
 The little fellow stopped. He watched
 one of the foxes, very lean one, run hing about its cage in harassed man ! ner and observed that "he was run \ping himself to def"
 Forgot About the Monkey Another idea obsessed the child. He
 Y.
 The crowd about the monkey cage be-
 Ing about four deep, he changed his
 mind about it and chased over to the
 squirrel cage. A rabbit was nibbling at
 a bit of greenery just under the squir-
 refs home and baby promptly forgot all about the aforementioned squirrel. He called mothers attention to the rab
 bit and wanted to give it piece of his candy.
 The pair continued their rounds of
 the cages The owls and eagles proved very Interesting to the youngster. He Astood looking at the owls and their
 Freat, staring eyes for a time. Sud denly he laughed and told mother thar one of them things winked at me-" Then he saw an owl with one eye closed and decided that he was sleeping with one eye open. The eagles, with their. legs covered with feathers. he decided were completely dressed and therefore.
 more modest than the other birds. Said he; That ones got pants on, mamma Motaer and child then passed on to the main line of animal cages and the little. one caught sight of the cage filled with albino rats. completely white ''4eh PAiih " CS. Ile Decdme kTeaIlX eX- cited and hurried over to see the fun ny little rabbits" It was with difficulty that his mother persuaded hem to leave the wire fence surrounding the cage.
 The wildcats next interested the baby. |I1e called them kitty" and wanted to know If they would bite. He was as- sured that they would,t and immediate ly decided that it would be best to leave
 The elephant was next in order. Miss Fancy was kindly disposed and fla vored her little visitor by turning in his direction and begging for a peanut. She extended her huge trunk half way over her shoulder. The kiddie screamed with delight. Then he became serious Why, she's got tail on both ends.'' he exclaimed in wonderment. Mamma took up 10 minutes time explaining to him the properties of the trunk and ktail, showing him that a vast differ
 ence could be seen between the two If one looked carefully. He finally was satisfied and wanted to see Teddy" the bear.
 Visit the Bear Cage The two proceeded on up. to the hill
 to see MT. Bruin. Baby wanted to get inside the cage with Freddy but mamma wouldn't hear of 1t. She pro- ceeded to unfold fearful tale of the |terrors experienced by boy about the sixe of her youthful nearer who had been placed in a bears den. By the time the story was finished baby was aln ost in tears and wanted the visit the wading pool.
 Passing the swing. see-saws and sand boxes on the way to the pool.
 baby wanted to stop and see-saw,
 Mamma said that there was no one to l sit on the other end of the plank. Baby didn't see what difference that would make. You can sit over there." was his comment After much persuasion he was pre- walled upon to visit the pool. His shoes. and little pink socks were removed and ! he proceeded to make merry with about % other kiddics in the wading pond. It
 was at least half an hour before he 'could be persuaded to come back to the shore and mother was worried all
 tho time for fear some of those other |children would push him over and he
 would get wet" Finally the little fell |low came out of the pool and told man.
 ma to put his ahoes on.
 After donning them the two started MM M-~ xu-- -- 4au~A -