Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-18
Startling Cases Investigated BY
r. M. Zingg. Distinguished Anti
Which Prove Children Can Bel
Wild Animals $3.50 And Which Al
Exciting Chapter to His Discove||
the Wolf Children Of Midnopore
Two Years Ago in This Md

the age of II. 1t was difficult to train her
stand up straight, much less walk. The reasonl
Lukas superiority over Kamala, seems to be 4
the wolf is an out-and-out, incorrigible quadruI
whereas the babOon frequently rears up on it's II
legs and tame ones are taught to walk on two
and even carry basket in their arms, just as
native Kaffirs do.
1t was Mr. Smiths idea that Lukas could
made into sufficiently good farmland at Id
to earn his keep, but the boy had other ideasI
first. He did not want to wear clothes wa n
self, learn to talk or become house-broken mi
less do any work
His mind held just one ambition, to escape fl
these annoying captors whom he did not accept
his own kind and get back to his baboon friend
that was the life.
After being brought back. hungry and footsI
from several attempts, he had the good senst|
give up the idea of running away. Still he
manned bitter sullen captive, refusing to chaI
his ways until Mr.. Smith resorted to corporal n
ishment
This was the way the apes had taught him
he quickly learned what not to do. Next d
like, he learned the meaning of some words b,
was long time before he tried to speak Ct
he made the effort, speech came fairly fast in d
trast to Kamala, the VOLTS foster-child who
about seven years, was able to speak only abou
words and never learned to frame sentence
This, however, is not attributed to any \
wolf so much as the generally superior ntelligt.
of the ape, fitting an ape-child better for most d
thing
EVENTUALLY Lukas learned to converse
- tell the story of his life as we'll as it coult
recalled Due allowance must be made for the
that he was the son of Kaffir parents not
high in the scale of racial intelligence He hao
recollection of his own kidnapping nor anytlI
earlier than crawling around with a band of
boons, in which there had been one special gu
ian, female whom he had supposed to be .
mother.
She taught him to forage for fruits nd
r1eS, birds eggs and to turn over stones for
tain bugs that were good to eat but to avoid
pions and snakes. Also he learned to catch
on the wing but to notice how they flew and
kind of buzzing they made, so as not to make
mistake of grabbing wasp.
Wild honey was the prize delicacy of all,
it was an expensive luxury which usually had I
paid for with a lot of painful stings. He had
on raids of plantations, and knew from the caut
behavior of his elders and betters that this
an extra-hazardous way to fill ones stomach
Plantations were haunted by two-legged
lures who made terrifying, explosive sounds,
as the police who caught him had done. Also
bipeds left food around that for some reason 7
not be touched until the "old man." leader of
Ddnu, ndQ SnlIIeQ ana LdSJeQ IL carefully.
Why this should be so, he did not know, ha
no comprehension of poison
The doctors at the mental hospital had obse
that one of Lukas' legs showed evidence of b
broken and apparently set by rather unsk
hands. From this they estimated that the
must have been more than a baby when
balloons took him into the family.
But the boy remembered it all too well and
that it had happened only few years befor'
rescue, as the result of fall. For long
afterward, he had crawled around on three
and In considerable pain according to his
guess almost an entire Summer
Neither he nor the balloons had attempted
thing in the way of splints. The leg simply sto
aching after a while, and finally he found ths
could use it again. How it could have set, a
itself, is mystery.
His body was notified with scars, latl
small, but much the biggest one was on his {
He remembered that one, too. His ba
mother" had given him no cautionary cuffs
birds, and though these made lot of fuss
he robbed a nest they never did anything sc
about it. Always he had hoped to catch a
and see if it was good to eat but he never
ghost of a chance until one unlucky day he a
from MONDAY nap under bush to see an os
approaching.
Lukas realized that an ostrich was an out
ously big brd-but still was bird and q