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Show PAGE SIX v' THE EVENING HERALD, MONDAY. OCTOBER 12, West - 4 - wimjJiiJM&j & How Part of the .. i 4' Staged Hunting names in the HJ7 otreets, Fashionable Women Made 1 vrJrrv.' - 'v l i 1 .r I I Zaza, Companion Leopard ( of ZizL the Beast That . Escaped from the Jardin d'Aclimation and Terrorized Parla for Three Days. ' l - . - Pets of ii- Dangerous Beasts anH A By EILEEN O'RELX. 3 i Population '..3. J- - - . 7 PARIS. in aome which mystorioui" leopard, escaped from the Jardin d'Aclima-tjo- n here recently and roamed the Boia del Boulogne which district was exclusively hi has been gathown for several days and nights ered to his fathers. . He Reported this life the other afternoon on a thorough a busy thoroughfare near the Bois fore which Euddenly ceased to be busy when a policeman's bullet pierced his heart. The nomadicrfoxrlioweYer; which appeared si- large. munaneouBly with the leopard, still is ileis said to be hiding in the cellar of the Opera. While most of the populace watched trom e- w -- hiad barred doors a--day octwoaga-iwith clubs and pintois douphfv citizena-arm- ed -weremnrching-upon-the Opera la ft body. They were halted by a cry thafarose in the Arenae Henri Martin. The cry was "Lion I LlonT ..The band thereupon dispersed and everybody fled for his life, later it turned out that the big Jungle cat, who dragged part of- the him captive, was quite :haiu which once-heltame and not at all hungry. . He soon was caught by .his keeper and. returned to the -- ornate Argentine owner, menagerie of his " 3enor Basualuo. But the incident, together with the excitement over the leopard, the fox, and over jther weird creatures that have been seen prowling the streets or lurking in public or private gardens here, has set everybody's Qcrvcs on edge. Pari? is accustomed to sensation. " It always has been considered the one big city where almost anything could happen. But an epidemic of wild animals is too much even tor Paris. A Francois Balsan, the eminent boulevardier, expressed it: "This is a highly civilized community, and while we are not adverse to excitement, we expect. pur thrills to be the refined ones of jungle dangers lot , civilisation, 1 loose in our midst upset us. : . "If we were Uansplanted to the wilds of s Africa, for examine, we'd think nothinu of Lrventuring forth to confront lions, leopards or Wliaiever jierce creatures are imuve w those regions. But with escaped exotic animals ready to pounce upon us from our own doorsteps what more natural than that we should refuse to venture out of our homes?" Accordingly certain portions of ' TarlsT as well as the entire Bois, was for awhile practically deserted". ' after the leopard first was dis- - " . covered lurking around the trees. added to' , lliJLnofeejLLincidcnt-th- dt the general alarm occurred the other Portethed'AaWerea, fV morning rienr .where .Antoine Blarq keeps a little bar. M. Blare opening his " duwn, ' placel jtoon alter ' : i nis ""jrrr-r:wem mio garuen 10 ; Strange Insanity THE Cases' vf - Appeared. :7 4 A': it 1 s Vl At LeftUzrtterD. Berr, Whose DarWic Tiger Dance Was One of the Sensational Results of the Paris Wild I7 . Animal "I shall not descend," she cried. "I am the wife of Zouzou the l'oxl Arid I shall re v: lie"6nt!3I Tnaia " be comet for we-,- , Scare. d I5:..v. . fii it A V-- ki:v ' "4k oil St J? . . J J.-.- . V4 J --i - M Right The Last of Zizi the 'cr ;vr. 4 Leopard, Who Roamed for Three Days X 2 'An 7 r Through the , 4 ' Bois de Boulogne iter ore jJcyiff bhot Down by li uenaarmes. i, -it: gather vegetables ; for the menu with which he serve the public There, among the radishes and. string boana, ' he saw What appeared to ue. . st. . . f. .v. f if s et - 1 A- x S : outward like Charlie Chaplin. An Apaches its.xenorm . l' ous fiati)iU and ' from coclcedjauntily" over oneXcye. "Mrs. Mar-- X they failed to teach the limb upon which sho balanced precariously. But she spoke to a gendarme who climbed to the top rung, and im plored her to descend. "I shall not descend." she cried. "I am the wife of Zouzou the fox! V ' And I shall .remain here until he eomes for me I" And none of their entreaties, commands nor threats induced her to leave her airy perch. The ladders were removed and the police, hiding themselves in shrubbery at the foot of the tree, imitated the barking of foxes, hoping thus to lure her to the ground. She climbed higher. ' Eventually an officer climbed the tree and by promising to go with her to find Zouzou in the Opera induced her to descend. , Then there was the 'man found crawling on his hands and knees in the Luxembourg. Whn questioned he explained in highly, scientific be was the original monkey from language that which all mankind so he said-i- s descended. He was taken to the hospital for observation. The "Tiger Girl" and her famous or infamous dance is said to be another outgrowth of the scare. She is Lisette De Berr, nnd Amerhave--seeicans as we'll as Parisionnes-wh- o her new dance, which she performs clad only in a none too voluminous tiger skin, dispute the axiom which Btates that there is nothing new beneath the sun; Her terpsichorean creation has been described as more barbaric than of the Seven Veils" ever aspired to be. v , Grange blacUbird, bigger than apprize gooie, with . . i . .. u V . - Indo-Ch!bad by an owner who already . reported its loss. "And it isn't only the general slowing up of business and amusement caused by the wild animal scare we have to worry about," say the citizens, "it's the pathological and neurotic effect a "Many have taken up the fad for bizarre animal pets In a manner never before dreamed of. Society women, actresses, movie queens are appearing in public with weird and 'dangerous beasts which they cuddle and otherwise treat as they treated harmless in other days. "This is bad enough to be sure.-- But far worse is the plight. of those persons whose men tality, none too stable to begin with, has crashed under fantastic influence." One such person was the young woman found 'til S tree at Luxembourg Garden. When passem-b- y discovered her, she was perched on branch, busily engaged plucking and eating leaves. She paid no attention to their calls. ' Police were summoned and ladders quickly raised. Even by joining them together, however, na 1 garet Silver and the Pet Lion Who Accompania Her Whenever She Wen- t-' ' Riding 1 - lap-do- gs ( 1 " " i V ;4 V',; JO to-- . WiW y -- A v . -- Fearing he was back in the flays of absintber' Blare retreated to his bar and locked me ioor. sately inside, he tele--" -- plucked l)110ne the city pound, where-Vjfupon he was reassured. Di" rector Debas stated that the bird was a hooded calao, a hprnbill, brought the-"Dan- . Kcmpwt. rUir. Scrllw; t23. 7 - Another woman, prominent in society, appearing with a Madagascar lemur which she leads about on a leash. Her manner of fondhn? the animal has oc casioned comment, since she pulls his tail, tweaks his .ears and otherwise hn- haves in a manner totally inconsistent with standards established by polite society. Mile. Ida Rubenstein,- the famous beauty whom Gabrielle D'Annunzio proclaimed the most wonderful woman in the world, seldom i .seen-witho- a baby leopard- An English woman, Mrs. Margaret Silver, visiting here, drives her '.roadster about the streets with a full grown lion growling and spitting upon the seat beside her. ' , ' Another curious animal pet is the small goat which drops into the Pre Catelan for dish of tea every afternoon with Nina Payne, American dancer et the Follies Bergere. And perhaps the tamest "wild" pet of all is the big gray gpose which belongs to Maud Loty, the. actress. One result "of the animal scare is the rich harvest being reaped by professional escorts d ffitferto the who make their living by escorting wealthy women visitors, about. Paris for a , fee. These women who -- sleek-haire- d, agile-ankle- .wouldn't dream of venturing upon the streets where jungle creatures are said to bo. roaming, fare forth serenely under the protection of these rates to males, who have boosted their nightly : : astonishing proportions. . The wild animal scare, taking it all in all, U marked by a decidedly pathological tinge. ' Psy-chologists and those members of the medical pio-- f ession who have to do with mental ailments are . advising normal people to discontinue all inter-est in bizarre creatures; since such interest, they say, produces a bad effect on the nerves of per '. i .' - , sons less well balanced. , . Meanwhile the fad for queer pets still is rag. more animals and are and seen "stranger ling everywhere, hero than at any time before iq Paris. of history - th' |