Show CIRCUS ANIMALS ALS UNANIMOUS IN CONDEMNING CONDE NING BENZOATE OF SODA of o soda may have Its place on 0 the accepted list as a perfect food and anda a Ii health builder but the animals in Ring lung ling hag Brothers circus menagerie will wUl have none of it Labels La ls printed In undiscoverable erable type may Inay pass pans preserved products Into nto some larders but the guests at the huge luge table In the zoo have a test teat of their own that never fails fall Charles Charlls Smith superintendent of the Itinerant zoological garden arden line hRS established tab beyond all an at doubt that his charges are pure food cranks by a recent series of experiments He began on Dewdrop the polar bear a Ii few days ago The Thenice Thenice Thenice nice fat sirloin steak that was served to Dewdrop one evening had rested for some sometime time irne under the Influences of a Ii preserving substance tance warranted to make it tender and palatable Dewdrop took just one sniff at it and retired to his corner in disgust his appetite quite destroyed troyed Then Thena I a Ii cnn can an of brilliant juicy carrots was of offered offered ered to Darwin the mandrill Darwin amused himself for half balf an hour by shy log Ing ng the carrots at tt ns kits friends on the other side of the bars baes but could not be in to nibble a piece Nellie and Snooks the giraffes giraffe were tempted with tomatoes of ot a startling red but detected ted he the tb presence pre enee of soda of benzoate and would not be comforted The climax came wilen Smith sprinkled a little over or a nice bran ball and offered to IMia the elephant Lena ordinarily is 18 the b animal In the me menagerie but sh she returned that bran ball with emphasis Trouble looms ahead for Fatima the hippopotamus Fatima is the fattest thing in the circus and as a natural re result result sult suit she is inclined to take great t com comfort comfort comfort fort in her slumber Incidentally she has ha developed an unfortunate habit of or sleeping on her back and the result is isa i ia isa a more snore of fearful proportions When Then Fatima snores Inores everybody and everything else In the block wakes up under the impression that an earthquake Is loose somewhere The Th monkeys and the camels arje a az particularly sensitive having com complained so violently about Fatima that the keepers keeper hiv b v devised a harness harne s and leather muffler which will be strapped about her head to silence llene her mighty t trumpet ruin net |