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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
A Confirmed Woman Halter

The polar bear is the only one
in the Bronx Zoo which does not
want a mate. Old Silver King in
sists or living alone, and when an
endeavor was made to supply his
predecessor with a mate, the male
polar bear promptly killed the
female. The polar bear differs in
his diet also from the other bears.
Silver King eats only meat and fish.
The other bears eat anything. Silver
King turns up his nose at sweets,
while the others are eager for any
thing sugary.
In the wild, bears often have a
special diet, based on what is to be
found in their particular haunt.
Bears are not great wanderers. A
twenty mile range is about their
limit And Il a bear happens to
live in the Selkirks in British Co.
lumbia he will not know anything
about fish and probably will not be
on speaking terms with meat. His
diet Will Ne almost exclusively vege.
tartan. Further south, in the Bitter
Root Mountains of Montana, the
bears are great fishermen; they are
meat eaters, when they can get it,
and they eat great quantities of
roots and herbs. But they ignore
some Of the roots most priced by
the bears Of the Selkirks and eat
ravenously some herbs utterly
passed over by their northern
brothers. More to the south, yet,
in Wyoming and southern Idaho,
where game is plentiful, the bears
make meat larger proportion Of
their diet.
In captivity bears collect all their
various appetites into one basket
and are truly omnivorous. They
ere fed twice day, six days week,
in the Bronx. There is no feeding
Sundays, on the theory that they
probably miss a meal occasionally
N the woods and mountains and the
Sunday fast will approximate
natural conditions. Ivan gets twice
o day, except when he is hibernat-
ing, eight or ten pounds of meat
or fish (either fresh water or sea
fish, It makes no difference to him) j.,
twenty loaves of stale bread, ten or
a dozen heads of cabbage and a
couple Of bushels of mixed vege-
tables. The meat and fish are alter
mated, meat one day and fish the
next. When he is alternating, the
cabbage and other vegetables are
cut out and the bread portion is
cut in half, while he is fed only
four days week. Two days a
week he gets six pounds Of meat
at feeding and two days six
pounds of fish.
! That is what Ivan calls fasting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14

sleeps until new supply Of food
is ready for him in the spring.
The strange part of it is that
he does not supply himself with a
stock Of food, a cache, to last
through the winter, but merely
crawls into a den and sleeps I'M
brokenly for weeks and months
without either food or drink. The
duration of Information varies, &C.
cording to the latitude and altitude,
from six weeks to four and some
times nearly five months.
Coming out Of Information, the
free BEARS intestines are absolutely
fiat. One would expect him to be
ravenously hungry. Probably he is.
But he does not proceed to gulp
down food in enormous quantities.
On the contrary, he is delicate about
his eating. He selects carefully and
eats but little so as not to strain
his weakened intestines. At night
he returns to his winter den. 1t is
only after ten days Of resurrection
that he displays the full measure
OF an appetite acquired by several
months of fast, and then forsakes
his den for bed in the open.
Zoo Hibernation Is Short
In the Bronx Zoo the bears start
preparations for Information about
the middle Of October. The signs
ere certain sluggishness of move
ment and decrease in appetite.
Between the middle Of November and
the first Of December they begin to
hibernate" That is, their rations
have been cut down from 30 to so
per cent Of what they eat in the sum-
rner, and they go into their dens to
sleep at night and don't get up so
early in the morning. BY the middle
Of January their Information is over
and they come galloping out for a
full meal.
Three of the Alaskan brown bears
in the Bronx Zoo make no pretense
Of alternating, while the only bear
there that really hibernates is an
other from the Far North, female
Admiralty bear from Admiralty ISL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
|Irm Not ''The T'errible''

Iran Not THE Terrible"
The average man will be salts
fed with this testimony. But there
is testimony on the other side also,
and certainly Ivan, the big Alaskan
brown bear up at the Bronx Park,
suggests nothing either treacherous
or ferocious by his somewhat hu-
norous, very inqulring countenance.
Why, when he stands up on his hind
gs-lvan is nearly eight feet tall
and weighs more than 400 pounds,
the biggest bear in captivity-and
y with his right arm across his breast
motions with his huge left arm for
Peter Romanoff, his keeper, to throw
loaf of bread over the high steel
fence, he almost weeps in his fear
that his pleading will go unre-
mrded.
Neither is there anything treach-
aous in the kindly, inquiring face
Ct Badly, VANS mate, bald-faced
grizzly. The only bears in the
bronx Zoo with which one would
INK treachery are a Kadiak female
bear called Carrie Nation, because
10 IS such crank" and Silver
hhg, the big polar bear, who
aorts and growls so angrily with
lowered head and barred teeth when
be is disturbed.
But Silver King has an excuse.
de was full-grown bear when he
vas captured and he never took
indy to it. Most bears in zoos
we're captured when they were cubs
VI were born in captivity. Moreover,
SlNer King had a rough time of it
Snen ne was caught. He was taken
The water, and the memory was
70 unpleasant that after he reached
ne Bronx ne would lie at the edge
u his pool and suffer from the heat
the hottest summer days rather
nan go in the water to cool off.
ne only way he could be persuaded
60 IN the water was by throw
ag his food into the pool, and even
"en IT was a long time before he
would go in voluntarily.
Horrible, Hairy, Human"
One wonders if there is not an
Individuality among bears lust as
much as there is among humans,
ana If there is not a difference be-
seen bears IN captivity and those
Fhat have never known chains q,
bars. Old hunters, particularly those
who have specialized on bears, will
tel you that there are TO two bears
Exactly alike, any more than there
are two human beings who have the
ame thumb prints, and they will
ay that the only thing the bea,
aeks Of human gifts is speech, while
n intelligence, sagacity and cunning
ae average bear far surpasses tn,
average human. AS for the differ
ences between bears in captivity
aud those in the wild, there arr
e@e that can be readily observed
a the Bronx Zoo.
This is the winter season, and out
The Rockies the bears are hiber-
aanne. That goes for every bea,
nun the Mexican border to the
Asctlc Circle. Whether or not Mexi-
"a bears hibernate is disputed
4aeseion. DR.. Hornaday thinks they
p'o0aoly do not, as the climate is
sS0.roplcal and they can get their
tNO all the year round. Others say
~ probably do, as instinct would
'sAe the Mexican bears do what
IVY other member of the family
we Bronx Zoo the bears are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
ears at Bronx Park Zoo Play at Hibernatin
|ruin in Captivity Is Drowsy in
Winter But Doesn't INDULGE
In Long Maps

doing what tlSy cali alternating,
but there is a vast difference be-
tween their kind of alternating and
that Of the Rocky Mountain bears.
In the Rockies bear gets ready
to go into winter quarters when the
first snow falls. He cuts his rations
down, eats little less from day to
day and spends large part Of his
time preparing his winter den.
dragging in pine boughs and fallen
leaves to make himself soft and
comfortable bed, chinking up all the
crevices to keep out the drafts and
blocking up the entrance until there
is only room for him to get in. BY
the time the big snow comes, from q
fortnight to a month later, the
bears intestines are entirely
empty. He crawls into his den and
curls up for his long sleep. And he
does not waken or emerge from his
den for either food or drink until Il
is time to come out the next spring
and find the sweet and succulent
young roots beginning to sprout in
the still snow-covered earth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-12-14
It's Sleep or Starve

DR.. Hornaday offers this explana-
ton for Information: The bear is
omnivorous, to be sure, but his food
is largely herbivorous. When winter
comes and the big SHOWS fall, if he
had to stay in the open and hunt
for living he would die of starva-
ton. So he crawls into a den and
The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
RED-TOP BOOTS.
By EDMUND VANCE cookr

The proudest moment OF my life
Was not when I had won nv wife.
As maids and lovers might sup
pose;
No. no; my hour the most complete
Was when they shod my childish
feet
In red top boots with copper toes.
1t was a fashion of that day.
Long since forgot and passed
away.
Though in my memory still it
And every boy at bedtime knelt
And voiced the prayer. which most
he felt,
For red top boots with copper
toes.
Well. life has brought my modest
OF simple sweets. with some to
spare;
I've slipped its wine. I've Kissed
its rose,
But never was there deeper pleas
Than on that day they took my
For red top boots with copper
toes.
I've never won a cross nor crown,
Nor worn a doctors honor gown,
Nor star and garter on my hose,
But none the less I have been feted,
And very grandly decorated
With red top boots with copper
toes.
No dictionary has conferred
The proper meaning Of that word,
Which,, now, these memories
disclose.
For "bootless" wete all other JOY
Compared to being just . boy
With red top boots and copper
toes.
o, Father Time, can you not I'LL
One moment with that golden thrill,
Or change these hours for some
OF those?
o, watt me to that distant date
And I'll not kick at any fate
With red top boots and copper
toesi
copyright. 1s1s.l
The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
The Hospital.

Just the other day down
usde us to the opinion that the city dwe but half
preciates his good luck living within hospital
Way there in the far north husband
Canadian farmer hurried the
When the doctor arrived thnghe thingto
to take the patient hospital where operating
pert attendance might the stricken life
hospital at Winnipeg, of 16o miles,
not the hospital until hours had
according to the DOCTORS the hope and possibility saving
wonnan's life had vanished
Those human beings who live of
hospital slow realize that the
for them will be question of time
hospital
Not only question utmost importance
IN the life but the the
indueement place patient under
expert treatment of weorganized hospital
No how
within, rival the hospital when seriously
All this makes it clear that a
II a water schools physicians Every
family the community vitality
p and should ard given churches
that the hospital will be the institution community
best equipped for sheng him and aiding against
disease.
Most hospitals nonpro6making possible
for the and the less wertedo seek hospital cot also
makes for the support from
the the healthy To hospital must be
thoroughly equipped machinery be order
No hospital take Of thousand paens
for only hundred stxF
endowment fund.- by erecting buildings installing beds
by making possible for the hospital service
ITO the than charity helping
maintain institution which
life the life Of member family. of
Jour friends.
The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
DAMNED FOR DOING NOTHING
BY the Rev. CHARLES STELZLE.
Stan Writer on Religious Topics

What must do to be damned 80
Nothing-that's all.
You're damned-condem demmed-if
you just sit still.
That's the law in the physical
world.
II you sit still long enough. youll
never get up again. II you never
lift your arm. you'll soon never be
able to raise it at all. II you re-
main in darkness and never use
your eyes. youll shortly become
blind.
You're damned for doing nothing.
It's the law in the mental world.
II you never exercise your brain.
never read. never study. never talk
to anyone. never permit angon" to
talk to you-your mind will become
blank-msybe you'll become insane
The most horrible punishment
that could be inflicted upon you Is
not twenty years at hard labor. but
twenty years in solitary confne-
ment.
You're damned for doing nothing
It's the law in the spiritual world
HE that believeth not shall be
damned"
Simply shut your heart TO all
truth. and after a while you won'I
be able to believe snythinG-this
is the severest penalty for NOT &C
cepting truth. Furthermore. you'll
be made to believe a lie
It's the natural law applied to the
spiritual world.
The psalmist once wrote: The
fool hath said in his heart. there
is no God"
A man may say that so often thai
he'll soon believe 1t.
He may do the same thing about
any other fact in the spiritual world
And the punishment follows: After g
while he'll believe the thing that M
wants to believe. even though it ISM
true and he knows it isn't true.
The process OF disintegrauon anc
death begins when A man shuts him
self out from the forces that max,
for life. The body and mind anc
spirit are kept alive through constant
constructive use.
The way to a larger spiritual life
is thEpugh faith. but he that be
lieveth not shall be damned"
The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
Such Is Life
As 1t is Seen
BY o. b. JOYFUL

When It comes to matrimonial
speed we hand the second prize to
the former Mrs. A. Wise, Of Balti-
more, Md. The first goes to A. Wise.
himself.
A. Wise. who is 26 years old,
thought it would be wise for Wise
to detach himself from the then Mrs.
Wise and annex a new Mrs. Wise, so
six hours after his divorce he did
that very thing.
And next day the former Mrs. Wise
again embarked upon matrimonial
seas. which might have been wise or
otherwise, but the fact remains that
she Is no longer Mrs. Wise.
For a long time now we have been
Of the opinion that sooner or later
some of those look alike" brothers
would get into trouble. .
And here It is:
Woman in London, England. has
sued a man. alleging that he. being
her husband. should support her.
and he alleging that he. not being her
husband, should not support her.
She says she ought to know IL he's
her husband, and he says she mar
ried his brother. who was so much
like the defendant that they could
not be distinguished apart"
John W. Swineford. Of Selinsgrove.
Pa, has one blue eye and one brown
eye, being. we are told, the only hu-
man being with rainbow lamps.
A servant girl. Is years old Cher
q mi xnyfNh hAlI A..N
she has a snub nose and IL a movie
devotee'. has made large number
OF wise men-scientists, psychic re-
searchers. etc.-seem very foolish.
In the dining-ro Of the rectory in
the Norfolk village OF Swanton No
vers large splashes OF oil and water
would mysteriousfy appear on walls,
ceiling or floor
The source OF these liquids could
not be determined. Mineralogists ex-
amined the place. The ceiling was
torn out. II was proposed. actually,
to tear the house down,
Day after day the ''oozing' OF oil
persisted.
Finally Oswald Williams, a profess
sional magician. volunteered to aid
the Rev. II. Guy in solving the prob
lem.
1t was found that when the maid
was absent. the splashes did not ap-
pear. She was spied upon. and YES
sells of salty water were left within
her reach.
1t was found that the splashes were
saline in flavor and finally the girl,
caught In the act. sobbingly con-
fessed. Her only explanation is that
she must be bewitched.'
In 1852 an 11-year-old girl originated
the Cock-land ghost in Holborn.
Even DR.. Samuel johnson became m
terested in the case. There were rap
pings. groans and spectral appear
ances, all produced by this child.
But she wasn't bewitched. nor is
the Norfolk youngster suffering from
anything battling.
Kid mischief. that's all. getting tre-
mendous delight out Of tricking a lot
Let's hope she doesn't lose her Job.
OF solemn adults.
The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
ST. VlNCENT'S BAD ENOUGH
FOR EXILE OF THE KAISER

company has established a ooaIinr
station fer merchant ships.
Something like 10000 peonIs
exist on the nine islands. Thev
are almost entirely negroes. de-
Scehcanhs or slaves who fed from
bondage IN Africa With them are
mixed half-caste Portuguese LosS
tAan 100 white people. mostly
EnClishmen employed by the coaI-
inr company and the cable COM
nanN. liV" on 81. Vincent None
can stand the life very long and
thSy are frequently relieved.
An Oppressive Atmo.pherr.
The climate is unravorable for
most of the year. Its suItry from
July TO December and oppressive
during the few rains that com
between August and Novembor.
Fierce gales sweep the island.
/ usually followed by the terrible
Saharan "harmattan"-dense clouds
of dust that literally bury the
islands
Water is 50 scarce on ST Vim
cont that the scant supply ha. 20
he ratIoned. Each family is on
ttled to a tubful a day. Women
stand in line at the water market
pay penny 1.-TWO cents. AmericAn)
/ Tor tub Of water and carry IL
away on their heads
/ NstIN- men. clothed in rars
1 work on tire CoalinE barEes. They
got 90 cents a day Women get
what work they can unloading
steamers that bring food TO the
( islands. They got penny FOR
carrying a load of Iso pounds on
their heads
The natives. sprung from q ra-
cial blood mixture that would causs
{ student OF anthropology to throw
up his hands in horror. appear to
I be absolutely without morals.
Young women and girls. without
exception, earn their living by low
! forms Of dancing. while men ana
! boys descend in swarms upon Wis
! itors from vessels. forced to stop
for coal. seeking TO lure them to
the exhibitions.
BOYS up to fifteen wear no
! clothing whatever. except in some
cases merely a vest many times
! too large. Girls begin hiding Their
nakCdnoss with tattered scraps o,
] clothing when they reach the a-e
/ OF six or seven.
The town market place is q,
indescribable fifth. The people lived
nlostlS on dries FISH.
Streets. curiously. are well paved
with sharp cobble stones which
are like red hot stove lids in tho
middle OF the day. Nsvertheles.
natives. male and female. ALWAYS
20 barefoot Sanitation is abso-
luyely unknown
! ] asked an English oficial Fl
the coaling company whether he
had heard the eX-kaiser might he
sent here.
! Good Lord" ne exclaimed ~
horror, the blighter deserves The
wOrst-huT even / can't wish any
body such a fate as that"
The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
BY o. o. MCINTYRE.

New York, Oct. l1.-This has been a
feverish month in the Chorus Girl
Market. Chorus Girl Preferred has
jumped with so bid. A few fleeing
weeks ago Chorus Girl Preferred was
Is and Chorus Girl Common was Is.
II is no wonder that many of the lead
ing operators. such as Charles Dilling-
ham and Raymond Hitchcock, report
the demand exceeding the supply. In
fact unless Western shipments come
to the relief Of the market, prices will
be prohibtive.
New York Is under the delusion that
Ziegfeld gets all the pretty girls. AS
a matter of fact the prettiest girls in
musical shows in the past two years
have been cornered by Raymond
Hitchcock in his ''Hitchy- Koo" shows.
A great event is the opening of
"Hitchy-Koo." Hitchcock. in evening
clothes. stands on the orchestra lead
cr's throne as the first nighters come
in and the notables are greeted by
name.
Thus: Good evening. Col Du Pont
Well. well. there's Commodore A. NJ.
Andrews. How's the yacht? AS !
live il Karl Kitchen isn't with us this
evening. Glad to see you. George
Cohan. I'm mighty glad you came,
Mr.. Mackay. 1t is a fine evening. Mr..
Vanderbilt and thus runs the run
ming fire of saIuations. while the bal
cony and gallery crane their necks
to see the famous.
But to get back to the chorus
girls. The efforts of these opera
tors to corner the market have in
hated prices to the boom point
Never in the history Of theatricals
have such high salaries been paid
Ten years ago a manager could get
all the chorus girls he wanted for
S1S a week And at that salary the
girls furnished their own tights and
shoes.
If a show promised to have a
long run on Broadway the girls
were glad to accept SIS a week.
But today s35 a week is the
minimum wage at the Hippodrome
And these s35 a week girls are used
only to hold up the back drop. as the
saying is. The vast majority OF
chorus girls receive $40 week and
they DO not furnish anything except
their makeup.
The $50 salaries are paid to ex-
perienced chorus girls who are able
to speak a line or two or dance
with the principals. The $50 a week
chorus girl r. in sight. In the old
days when tights and short skirts
were worn to the exclusion OF
everything else. a chorus girl did
not have to be able to wear
clothes" Girls from a lower strata
Of society were employed for the
reason that they filled the bill
Now the cry is for the aristocrat
The New York Globe in it's issue
one day this week prints the fol-
The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
ny EDWARD VI THIERRY.
Representative Of the Newspaper
Enterprise Association with
Smithsonian African
Erpedifiou

ST. Vincent. Cape Verde Islands
(By MaiD-The international prob
lem of furnishing the ex-kaiser has
an answer here.
The town OF St Vincent. a foul
smelling. sun-baked hole-lying on
a barren. rocky. mountainous island
is the answer. st. Helena or
Amerongen' is a paradise in com
parison.
] found a rumor had percolated
here that this was to be the Ho-
henzoIlern prison. when the steamer
carrying the Smithsonian African
Expedition stopped here for coal.
Nobody ever stops here for any
thing else. 4 single days en-
forced stay in St Vincent is. a
punishment
There was a time. a couple 81
centuries ago. that Portugal used
st. Vincent as convict colony
Behind the struggling town you
The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
The Situation in Indiana.

have the best wife in the world
but no place to keep her rented a
house with the understanding that it
might be sold. and on our return fron,
our honeymoon We find it has been
sold. Our furniture is In the stores
waiting to be delivered; "at home"
cards were mailed; my mother-in,law
is coming next week. and what sort OF
a dub do YOU suppose she'll think her
only daughter is tied to-and she has a
good opinion OF me now? Have a
heart. and IL YOU know OF a five or
seven-room house at S35 to so a month,
write box 645 and we shall call YOU
Bend Tribune
The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
Starved Dreams.

In all creation help
pc willing life protecting
Seldom does And pity is added
which the world deed Of Luka Michigan
who fatal drug
IN her desperate and hope of saving them.
She explain judging
common human standards, find pallaon for her.
But her iiesory sheds tangle mind
which brought about the tragedy Since ghood
and her dreams have been shed Reared
she has wanted Something different
She lived fretful in a home apart from
neighborS but with the OF a city in her ears.
She caved the stage, music, gayety-a career!
She had much husband
imagination the splendid
Her mind became darkened influence
poison deadly than that administered to her
victims
The poison o discomfort
The Washington herald., 1919-10-12
Berlin Movies of Color.
Especial Berlin Dispsteh in the New So
Morning Teleeraph.l


To wean the German public from
its present madness for sensational
photoplays. American cowboy thrill
ers are being introduced on the Ger
man movie screen.
When the old regime toppled in
Germany, just before the signing Of
the armistice. the rigid censorship
rules regarding movies were drop
ped.
German photoplay producers i'm
mediately threw on the market all
the "rotten" plays which had been
censored in past years. The public.
erratic and unbalanced after four
years of war. relished the risque
movies.
Producers. unrestricted by the new
government. worked up more films
which were not only risQue. but pos
itively obscene and revolving. The
public flocked to the disgusting
scenes.