Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-04

With Solem'
nifty implied by clerical outfits of
black and white; SO smoothly packed
as to seem less like plumage than
cloth woven in New Jersey. the two
stand as rigidly straight as chaplains
on parade. but at sight of the keeper
they approach the gate with short
jumps that account for the name OF
Rock-Hoppers, given them at the
| New Zealand Zoo, where they lived
before they came here.
| In the matter of dining, old man
| penguin tolerateS no such chiVairous
! nonsense AS ladies first" He wants
all that is coming to him and he
wants 1t quick. Both birds crane necks
to the straining point, but the male
being a trifie larger. is able to butt
his lady aside to gobble an undue
mouthful. Wise to this trait that
is human in its selfishness. the keep
err dispenses fish-small and carefully
cleaned-share and share alike. When
| he has slipped, with incredible swift
ness, enough food to stuff each from
web-feet to red bill, the penguirts be
gin to gulp and wiggle to make room
| for more, but he tells them they
have had enough, and they follow
| him to the gate with Stilted little
| Jumps that show how gorged they
are. So long as the man is in sight
the penguins follow his figure with
eager. intent gaze. and when the
| foliage hides him. they exchange com
ments about the folks outside the
rails. You can tell by their shrugs
and mods and the gesturings of their
| funny little wing hands. Then. tired
of the subject, and doubtless too
stuffed To be longer entertained, they
| oil OF nd ifyht
and go fast asleep-two such human
oddities that you can quite under
stand why the good old missionary
| felt it his duty to baptiza the inhab
itants of Penguin Isle in the story
Anatole France tells about.
Tuesday being mixed day of sill
very dOwnpours and sunshine, few
visitors We're on hand--so few as to
! give a sense OF the solitude of some
! jurgle-lik forest. where many birds
and animals flashed in and out of the
green. It is a joy that crowds can
| not confer.
You will really Ike the penguins
though. AS one little woman ex-
planned to her companion. they are
not so whmsicafy human as at the
Zoo in Regents Park. where the pen
| gums. at times. are dressed like lit
tie men and women to please the
children of London; nor so thrilling as
| the movies we saw that time, that
pictured the Scott exploring party at
the South Pole, where countless
thousands of penguins held a mass
meeting to consider the strange
creatures who had come among
them, their gestures and expressions
showing every human elemental trait
except that of fear, being unac-
quainted, as yet, with man and his
! ability to kill.
THE Providence that takes care OF
children and fools, per adage
must also keep an eye on old ladies
with worried minds.
One especial old lady was SO pre-
occupied with the inward anxiety that
! furroWed her forehead into trench
| lines that she snailed across the
Avenue as if for the express purpose
of getting herself run down.
| An automobile that looked capable
of performing the job sent out an ad
| vance toot. The lady needed not
same as that Gypsy maiden in the
song, only for Il different reason, OF
| course.
The horn snorted longer and more
! CitIilOi ouSly lilSlSteIlL warning. he
| lady dawdled, as if the Avenue were
that place YOU call IA fowery mead
After a third sounding the chauffeur
| who had already slowed up, curved
around the tortoised lady and whizzed
on-and that was all there was to it,
except:
| Two men on the curb took in the
| incident. and when it was over the one
with the pipe said to the one with the
cigarette:
Most drivers are as careful as that
one, but it is the occasional idiot Of a
| joyrider who gets into the papers and
never see anything about the careful
ones in print"
Idiots have their uses"-the cigar
! cite smoker. being younger. naturally