The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-27
ZOO ELEPHANT DOES
 HER HOUSE CLEANING
Big Crowds See Miss Fancy, Bear and the Other
 Animals

Miss Fancy" the childrens elephant at the zoo, has decided ideas as to wha
 constitutes comfort in the summer
 months. Her feminine nature revolt,
 at the suggestion of keeping in hel
 quarters a stove in the summer time
 notwithstanding the fact that fire is
 never placed in it.
 | Last week the lady elephant decided to start house cleaning. She evidently
 thought the stove should have beer
 removed In June for it was the first thing she tackled. She began with the
 pipe and removed it in one section carefully depositing 1t just outside the
 back window. This is a common failing of the slovenly house wife--to place garbage in the back yard-and Miss Fancy" evidently learned the trick be- 1 fore coming Ito Birmingham. Birming-
 ham house wives do not litter up the
 back yard with trash. The stove fol- lowed the pipe, however, regardless of
 the appearance of things, and the ele- phant apparently was satified with the mornings work
 In the afternoon, however, she was
 again bit by the house cleaning bug and after carefully leveling the floor of her domicile proceeded to break the partition which separates her living quarters from the feedroom. After par
 taking of hearty meal. the elephant
 gathered up all the loose hay and placed it in her living quarters. smooth ing it nicely. The new hay gave de- | cidedly clean appearance to the interior of the elephant house and Miss Fancy reviewed her efforts with pride. Yesterday the clean and cool appear ance of the elephant house attracted
 the attention of visitors and many comments were heard. Miss Fancy
 however, paid little attention to the visitors. She was extremely interested ] in a little kodak which one of hei
 many friends was leveling at her
 Keeper Dayton Allen was near and al
 his behest she obedietly elevated hel trunk to an acute angle, raised hel
 right foot in supplicating attitude and posed before the kodak until the shut l ter clicked. This was her cue to re-
 lax and she did it with very evident
 satisfaction. She was willing to pose
 again, however and showed no hesi-
 tancy when Keeper Allen spoke to
 her.
 1 Up at the bears den yesterday there
 was an interested group of spectators
 watching Teddy" at his bath. The huge
 black fellow seemed to greatly enjo,
 rolling about in the water and would | climb out of his cement bath tub
 shake himself like unto a great dog walk about his cage two or thre,
 times and fall over into the water
 laughter at his pranks, and he evidently
 was glad to make someone happy fol he continued his sport.
 | A lawn has come to delight the deer at the zoo. The little fellow was mak | ing friends with everybody yesterday and stood close to the wire fence sur rounding the deer and cows. and per mitted all who would to pat him on the head. Many of the visitors stopped
 . pet the lawn. and all admired its great, soft and appealing eyes He was much given to using his tongue after the manner of a dog in caressing his visitors.
 The little fellow is just beginning "a grow pair of horns and the sprouts are very fuzzy-"have moss on them as child put it. He is the friendliest little chap imaginable and seems to enjoy being petted.
 Down towards the north end Of the animal cages, where are housed the coyotes, the ant-bear and the fox. there were few visitors yesterday EvervoT:- who would see the elephant must pass this point. but no one seemed inclined to stop. The cages appear to he clean but there was an insuffcrable odor about the place yesterday.