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New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

it with various tools and finally,
through bit of luck, a wrench
caught on the end and Toto un-
screwed it as rapidly as the plumber
himself might have done Off came
the cap and an inch stream of water
poured over Toto. She tried to stop
it with her hands, and. failing, raced
sbout madly. Spicer tossed her a
towel and she began to mop up the
water, pausing occasionally to wiring
out the water in a manner similar to
that employed by the humans who
scrub the monkey house.
SHORTY after that Toto was re-
~urned to her cage and given a cou-
pie of dried prunes to console her,
while DR.. Ditmars hurried away to
develop film that won applause re-
Gently when he displayed it at the
annual meeting of the New York
biological Society.
Toto wouldn't have done any
thing if l had tried to make her."
explained DR.. Ditmars. THEREIN
orangs are different from chlmps.
A chimp will do most anything you
tell it to do, if you make your mean
ing clear, but an orang is head
strong and likes to follow the die
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<<" HIS toothache is simply
-. driving me crazy" is
frequent plaint Of the

garded as a figure of speech.
But Dr.. Henry A. Cotton, the
psychiatrist, will say that the ex-
preston is not so much metaphoric
as literal, and he is man Of sci
ence. Why literal? Because Or. Cot
tor cures insanity by pulling teeth.
DR.. Cotton is medical director OF
the New Jersey State Hospital for
the Insane at Trenton. He has
found that patients who responded
to no other treatment became per
fectly normal if an infected tooth
we're extracted First, Of course,
careful X-ray examination is
made If tooth is found infected
it is removed, and perhaps in a
very short while a patient who was
sent to the hospital as "hopelessly'
insane is discharged.
DR.. Cotton has been experiment.
ing for eleven years. He submitted
the result Of his research and clint
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ing to the Bronx Geological Park
when she was two. However she
may have been CAPTURED and the
custom of the not very human ma
tives is to knock infant "orangs"
and other monkeys out of trees with
Ieftly thrown clubs, Toto's expert
ence failed to shake her faith in the
innate goodness Of man.
Dick Spicer. who is her particular
friend and appears on the pay
roll as assistant keeper, monkey
house." says Toto is the most rea-
sonable feminine person he has ever
known, except maybe one or two
Spicer was a bear keeper until one
of the grizzlies tried to chew his
arm of few years ago. A sympa-
thetic listener Is sometimes per-
mitted to meet Toto outside Of her
cage. Her custom then is to place
foot on She new acquaintance's
knee, an arm about his neck and
then to swing herself astride his hip.
Her hands are slender but calloused,
and the thumbs are a trif1e short In
the second joint. The wrists revea.
her tree-dwelling ancestry, being
fiat, broad and bony like those Of an
old blacksmith. When she places one
Of them across the shoulders Of a
new friend that friend. il at all
nervous, is apt to appeal TO Mr..
Spicer to repeat some anecdotes H.
Illustrative Of her kindness Of dis
position, for her arm feels like a
steel cable. Her face In q caricature
Of all humanity, but the back and
top of her head ludicrously suggest
Jack Johnson
1t is a curious fact, but all orang-
utans and chimpanzees display a
knowledge Of the principle Of lever
age, even when fresh from their
native jungles. DR.. Ditmars is au-
hority for this statement and he
expresses the belief that 1t is en-
oloyed by them in their natural
tate Of existence. Recently DR..
Ditmars was passing Toto's cage
and observed her interest in some
strange noises rising from the
basement Of the monkey house. She
was trying to peer through cracks
in the floor of the cage. DR.. Dit
mars FASTENED over to the snake
houge, got his motion picture
camera and then set it up outside
the monkey house, with the lens
against window and commanding
the interior of a room directly over
that part Of the basement where "A
plumber was trying to repair the
heating plant. When everything
vas set Toto was brought to the
room by Dick Spicer, who left the
oranv a1one in the room. DR.. Dit
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comparing a vaudeville juggler with
a great actor.
Suzette Can Count

At that Professor Garner has a
pretty high opinion of Suzette He
brought a set of blocks out to the
park with which to test her mental
ity. These blocks are similar to
those used at Ellis Island to test
the mental agility of immigrants.
They also form part of tests by
which psychiatrists register the
mental age of children or defective
adults.
DR.. Ditmars said that Suzette
proved she could count up to
three and that she has an under
standing of a human vocabulary
that enables her to get along with
her keepers without trouble. She
had practically no trouble in placing
the differently shaped blocks of the
set brought by Professor Garner
into holes of corresponding shapes.
DR.. Ditmars said she compares
mentally with a child of two or
even three years, except for inability
to talk the language understood by
humans.
Suzette will sit quietly in her cage
for hours on end sewing a bunch
Of rags She threads her own
needle, too. AS she sits there sew
ing she suggests nothing so much as
cave woman working on the skin
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Toto Takes a Stroll

To come back to Toto, who really
is favorlte with all the keepers. q
trapeze was put in her cage recently
IN an effort TO distract her mind from
her friend the chimp who went to
Antwerp. She was growing a bit
morbid. She, however, unspliced the
ropes and, using the trapeze bar as
lever, pried apart two Of the bars Of
her cage and a moment later had
slipped out into the aisle and was
going along from cage to cage chat
tering with ell the occupants from
the big Hamadryas baboon, who
when ne is seated, looks like a
gowned judge, to Niger, the little
woolly monkey that is so gentle shat
Dick Spicer sometimes takes him our
Of his cage and lets little girls hold
him in their arms. "Cry, Nigger.v
Spicer will say. They are making
fun Of you" and Niger will clasp =
slender black hand across his eyes
and snifle in the most pathetic man
ner.
Toto was caught and hailed as a
fugitive about the time she reached
the cage Of Charlie Chaplin, the
white-handed gibbon who walks
erect habitually in shuttle that is
absurdly like that which has made
the moving picture comedian so rich.
Just by way Of showing Toto that
he wasn't really angry with her
Spicer took her down to the far end
of the monkey house to the cage of
the Gopher Gang and let her fiirt
through the bars with Patsy, the
agitator of that cageful of red
apes.
Patsy is one Of the smallest apes
in that cage, but he is certainly the
most troublesome. Stir 'em up.
Patsy" Spicer shouts, and Patsy.
with an expression that corresponds
to grin, climbs to the top Of the
cage and begins to chatter. In a
few minutes there are half a dozen
fights in progress between the other
occupants.
There was Christmas party for
Toto, by way Of soothing her afflic-
ton, and the orang-utans and the
chimps all attended, and DR.. Dit
mars was there with his camera. and
everybody had a good time until
Bona started to take the Christmas
tree apart, and then-well. every
member Of the party was put back
into his or her cage.
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Toto Turns Plumber

The plumbers pounding beneath
the floor attracted the attention of
Toto in an instant. A piece of tin
had been tackled over knot-hole
IN the center of the floor. Toto.
failing to remove it with her
fingers, set out to examine other
strange objects in the room. The
plumber had left his carpet tool
kit in one corner, also his black felt
hat and his lunch, including a TN
bucket of coffee.
First, she put on the hat upside
down, and DR.. Ditmars, grinding
away at the camera, thought to HIM
self that there has never been a
chlmpanzee or an orang- -utan
brought to the park that didn' t
quickly learn what to do with a
hat. He says this is purely imi-
tative and that from watching per-
sons who are in turn watching them
the .primates learn that hat is in
tended to be worn on the head.
Throw a hat into the cage of any
chimp or orang, according to DR..
Ditmars, and the grotesque creature
Immediately will clap it on its head
Such an explanation won't suffice
for Toto's succeeding actions. She
spread open the tool kit and took
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
spring Cleanng Already Has Begun at the Bronx x
Oilins the Hides of Elephants
Is the First of the Seasons
Operations

pRING cleaning begins earlv
~ at the Bronx Geological Park.
~ and that is why Walter
Truman, keeper of the ele-
,.nt house, didn't loiter around
rrroue getting q tourists slant at
i. battlehelds after delivering 115
.,ses Of animals to the Antwerp
zalogical Gardens a few weeks ago.
Even while he was trying to ap-
var interested in a grateful speech
" the head Of the Antwerp 200" ex-
,rsssing thanks to the New York
4 zooogical Society for everything in
he gift collection from the Mongo-
ian wild horse to the chin panzee.
Nj. Humans mind was occupied
nth an estimate of the number Of
raIIons Of neatsfoot oil that would
-s required this year to soften and
lean the tough hide of Khartum.
the African elephant whose growing
bulk promises to exceed that of the
ate Mr.. Barnum's lamented Jumbo.
Jumbo also was All African ele-
ohant, and al the time he was killed
stood ten feet nine inches at the
shoulders, and every time his skin was
softened with oil he grew a little bit
more, according to the Barnum press
agent, who once predicted that if the
skin wasn't softened Jumbo would
turst right through his hide, in his
eagerness to grow.
But Jumbo formed an attachment
ior young Indian elephant that be
anged to the Barnum show and died I
t0r love. In all the circus process
sions Jumbo used to tail up" with
'his small elephant, wrapping his
Eunk about the tail Of his pal. Ac-
cording to DR.. Raymond Dittmars.
Of the Bronx Geological Park, this is
natural jungle practice and not
merely a circus elephant trick.
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Over in the Monkey House the
Intelligence of Sllzette Is
the Latest Wonder

nolds this gun. Where and how
| they learned to fear firearms IS
something they cannot reveal, but
that fear is unmistakable. An ordi-
nary club does not frighten them at
all. Bona. Suzette's neighbor. is
just as fearful of the gun and has
no vaudeville history to offer a pos
sible solution. The answer might be
found in the jungle in which the
creatures were born.
Bona occasionally gets into a
rage and jumps up and down on the
floor Of his cage in a manner that
would be terrifying but for the bars
and screening that shut him up. His
feet thud on the floor with a loud
boom and he grunts horribly. He
weighs about l35 pounds, about the
same as Benny Leonard, but Benny
and the Rath brothers and Jack
Dempsey together, if unarmed.
couldn't handle Bona or Suzette If
either was aroused. Bona also has
passed the tractable age and &C
qulred a soured disposition.
Not long ago some of the direc
tors of the New York Geological So
ciety wanted to see Suzette per
form. DR.. Ditmars had her brought
to the room where they were meet
ing. He had camera there with
specially ground lenses. 1t was
mounted on tripod and was valued
at $1,000. Suzette was given
cigarette to smoke and for a time
all went we'll.
DR.. Ditmars endeavored to take
some pictures of her and had the
camera near her chair. D'Osta, her
keeper, suddenly remembered that
they hadn't brought the gun, and
decided that it would be wise to
fetch it while Suzette was in good
humor. He had hardly left the
room before Suzette cooked a calcu
latlng eye at DR.. Ditmars and the
camera. Then she rose to her full
height and began to leap around
him in constantly narrowing
circle.
Abruptly she reached out an arr,
and seized the camera, and as she
lifted it the tripod folded. DR.. Dit
mars dared not take it from her.
for fear she would attack him. and
he expected that at any moment she
would drop and ruin the expensive
instrument. In despair of a better
plan he attempted to win her atten-
ton to some other less valuable oh
ject and began to haul keys and
coins from his pockets. Something
that glittered finally interested her.
and she approached him to take it.
First, however, she carefully stood
the tripod on the floor and leaned
the camera gently against the wal.
DIR. Dltmars says that then he began
to breathe once more. About that
time D'Osta returned with the gun,
and Suzette was marched back TO
her cage.
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DR.. Ditmars says "selected"-
chisel and returned to the tin cover
and proceeded to pry it off of the
knot-hole. When she had given it
q final wrench she placed her eye
to the aperture and gave herself
over for time to the fascinated OBJ
servation Of the plumber, who was
pounding away with a hammer
Finally, she returned to the tool kit
and got a hammer and began to
pound on the floor with it in q
buslnesslike fashion, so that Dr.
Ditmars could hardly turn the
crank of the camera for laughter.
The tin bucket next attracted
Toto, and she tasted the contents
and then emptied it down the knot
hole on top of the indignant plumber.
The camera has recorded these
stunts and the film shows that Toto
acted without instruction but with
an evident determination to amuse
her friends who watched her through
the window and through the partly
opened door.
Too Much Skill
Her next stunt was to fiddle with
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

I'HERh cds Christmas party at the Bronr attended
by the orangutans and chimpanSees of acich the oboye
p'crure The Indlvdua1 in the Toto oramg-
utan The chlpamzee at the table taking the Buet test is
Sette who is kmowm to hare the Intelligence of yearod
chad The happy couple Ssette Boma Khaytu the
elephant, IS expected outgrow Jumbo
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25

garments of her master. She
makes no effort to follow any sort
Of design, of course, but sews the
rags into lump.
She has another human trait. She
likes to smoke cigarettes. During
these winter months she is bit
grumpy because she is denied flags"
on account Of the danger from fire
with the bottom of her cage filled
with straw. DR.. Ditmars, however,
says that Suzette, and, in fact, all
the chlmps Of his acquaintance, un-
derstand fire. She strikes her own
matches ard lights the cigarette, and
when she has smoked it down to Il
point where her fingers are all but
slnged, she carefully extinguishes
the fire by rubbing the butt"
against the wall. She is just as care
full about throwing away a match
after her cigarette has been lighted.
End of a Stage Career
Suzette was sold to the Bronx
Geological Park by Frederick
DOsta, who is now the keeper at
the monkey house. He had used
her in a vaudeville act for about
four years. She was q mild man
nered creature and affectionate dur
ing most of that period. When she
was about eight years old she de-
veloped the habit of stopping her
"act' and wandering out to the
footlights to leer down at the or
chestra. That was considered ex-
cruciatingly funny by the audiences,
until one day Suzanne reached a
long hairy arm down into the or
chestra pit and tore a French horn
eff the shoulders Of the man play
ing it. Then she crumpled the big
brass instrument as though it was
made of tinfoil and began to show
rage with the leaps into the air
that always mark the demeanor of
an angry chimpanzee The hollow
echo Of her feet thudding on the
stage filed the audience with panic
and many left the theater hurriedly.
That ended Suzette's stage career,
and was the cause of her being sold
to the New York Geological Society
to spend her days behind bars.
AS rule when a keeper goes into
her cage now he carries with him an
old gun, broken weapon incapable
Of functioning, but Suzette and the
other "chimps" are deathly afraid
OF it. They obey without hesitation
commands issued while the keeper
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monster is annoyed it is his custom
70 toss the nearest person about
thirty feet from the end Of the horn
on his nose.
After that Mr.. Truman went
over to the monkey house and tried
TO cheer up Toto, the orang-utan.
VINO was Stimulating Indifference to
the absence Of the far-off chimpan-
zee by throwing the hay from the
bottom Of his cage out into the aisle
formed by the long row of cages
and a wire screen that prevents
monkey-house visitors from pokine
canes at the inhabitants.
After shaking hands with the
orang-utan and scratching her
back, for she promptly turned about
with mute request for this atten-
tion, Mr.. Truman left the monkey
house and returned to his elephants
and rhinoceros and pygny hippo
potaml, but monkeys are so much
more interesting so
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How Jumbo Died

How Jumbo Died
The Barnum show was being un-
loaded from train in Bridgeport,
Conn, the winter quarters. when a
switch engine snorted around
curve Of track into that part of the
yards where Jumbo and his friend
we're wandering, lending a useful
Irunk when needed. Jumbo, beiiev-
ing his little, that is, comparatively
little, pal was in danger, charged
the oncomlng engine. He struck it
right below the number plate with
lis leathered head and collapsed.
An autopsy showed that his skull
had caved in from the impact with
ne engine.
Something Of all this was running
through Mr. Humans mind when
he director of the Antwerp Zoo had
reached that part Of his speech deal
lag with thanks for the jaguar and
ne zebra, and the Bronx elephant
Keeper, as he bowed acknowledge
nens, was thinking that with q liberal
CLING hhartunn. now nine feet four
inches tall. ought to grow some
where in the neighborhood Of four
inches this year.
Well, Mr.. Truman fed a final
aanana to the chimpanzee of the
collection, promised to convey the
enimp's best wishes to his former
cage mate, Toto, the prize orang-
atan Of the Bronx Park collection.
, hen after watching the chimp make
lace over his first Belgian meal,
eaobage leaves and animal bread,
he started for the Antwerp piers
and the trip back to the Bronx.
crossing the ocean he kept think
hg Of Kharturn and the amount Of
'i that might be required to oil him.
some days AIr. Truman thought it
aisht take as much as five gallons
sad on others, when the ship had
aade good run, he figured maybe
E1 gallons.
There Is no good purpose to be
e7ed by prolonging the suspense.
me oiling beean Immediately upon
~ Humans return, that is as
S''n az ne could change into his ele-
@ans house overaIs. A couple of
Sss'ssant keepers were gwen long
~eadied brushes and Z quantity Of
~ and sent into Khartum's 8 heavily
AIRED cage. Mr. Truman had a
~asn' too. At successive commands
Aaartum lad down, rolled over and
70 up one leg after another. He
'Aa saturated from tail To trunk
saa nls thick, dry skin absorbed tn
"a - sun dried bricks soak up water
wing zummcr shower. At the
sa'sn Dir. Truman was amazed to
'"ser that the process had re-
80 .4.s~e eight gallons. Then he sighed
ss -" relief. Khartum could accom-
,'A" n's' natural growth without
AsFl cI crarking his skin. Az
,.s ~ oi the treatment Khartum
~" we're nanicured With an adze
- q butcher knife.
ss@1 Ar. Thurman oiled the rhi-
.S''s until the b!Giah white crea.
- WIS az black al though made
'ndia rubber, and that required
49,. s@ilons n oil. This job tnok
~ a. 'ong though. because II the
New-York tribune., 1920-01-25
Toto Is Friendly

Toto Is a lady orang-utan, and
more friendly person wouldn't be
encountered in a long days journey.
She is about six years old and was
born in the jungles of Borneo, COM
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Too Much Skill

Her next stunt was to fiddle with
a cap on waterpipe. She paved at
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mars remained outside the window
at the crank of the movie camera.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-30
FOR A SINGLE LANGUAGE

Some months ago the Soviet Gov
eminent of Russia submitted the
whole question of international auxi1-
larry language to an official commits
sion After a thorough examination
of various proposals the commission
approved Esperanto as the best and
it has been decided to use it in all
the schools of the Russian Republic
Obligatory courses of study have al
ready begun III Moscow, Petrograd,
Tver OreI and Smo1ensk-
For some time past the Republic
Of Brazil has favored Esperanto in its
teIegraphic and cable service by plac-
ing it on.the same basis of charges as
Portuguese, and is also introd ucing
it in its courses of study in secondary
schools.
For the first time in history the
soldiers of Europe are forming inter
national associations for education
against war. A congress was recently
held in Geneva and it was decided
that after October 1 of this year, Es-
peranto shall be the official and obi
gatory language of thu correspondence
and meetings of the federation.
The, Chamber of Commerce of the
State of New York, at It's recent com
merciaI examinations, gave the same
value to Esperanto as to other IAN
guages. and a number of candidates
passed the examination with success
THE Nations Business.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-30
PULLING TOGETHER.

Unity is fundamental to all other
factors that create community ad-
vance. II you have not got a Let of
people who pull together. you will
not have the good schools and good
stores and improvements. and the
other conditions that create and
stand for progress.
If there are many personal Jealous
les in a city, if organizations crerish
bitter feelings of rivalry, if different
II eiglnb are unfrzsndly, you
throw a wet blanket over every effort
that anyone makes to improve condi-
tons.
People will not give time and eff
fort to pubic causes. unless they
feel that they have universal CO.
operation.
Neatness, beauty, public spirit,
business hustle, good schools, good
stores, i'm proyernents. pulling togeth-
err these are eight factors that make
a town sure to go ahead. The Times
is confident that Bridgeport has
these elements of progress in an I'M
usually good degree, and hence 1t
looks forward to its future with IN
bounded confidence.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-30
SHOULD CLEAN REFRIGERATOR
ONCE A EEK

So far as possible, refrigeraters
sh ould be kept clean by preventive
care. Wash the ice before 1t is put
into the ice com partment and keep all
food in clean and usually covered
dishes. Never pat feed away hot. 1t
is advisable to inspect the contents of
the refrigerator frequently for spoiled
food. Anything spilled should be
wiped up immediately. The following
directions for cleaning fefrigerat tors
are given by household specialists eff
the United States Department Of Ag-
rieulture.
About enee a week, at time when
1t contains only a little Ice, the re-
frfgerater should be thoroughly clean
ed. Remeve the Ice and all the food
Take cut the racks, wash til EN- in hot
water containing soap or soda, rinse,
and wipe dry. Il possible, remove the
drafhpfpe, scrub inside with a long
handled spiral brush or swab. and
scald. # the pipe Is net removable,
it should nevertheless be thoroughly
cleaned out, for 1t may contain not
only solid matter from the m eFting ice.
but also slime formed by the organ
isnls that thrive in such "a dark cool,
moist situation, The small trap in
the drainpfpe mould also be cleaned,
AID the drain pan washed and scald-
ed. Wash the inside Of the refrigera-
tor with hot water containing soap or
soda, rinse, and dry thoroughly, A
small pointed stick like a skewer NAV
be used to clean the corners and
seams.
So-ca11ed 'ffceless" refrigerators
! should be cleaned as regularly as
those Of the fce-box type-the shelves
washed and summed, and, If possible
two sets of curtains provided, so that
each can be washed and summed every
other week. Food safes. bread boxes
and other receptacies for food should
| likewise be washed, sca1ded, and air
| ed regularly to prevent mold and de-
cav.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-30

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