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Show . Reportorlal . Hoodoos. "Speaking of Zoo babies," said Mr. Stephen, the superintendent of the garden; gar-den; "do yon know that newspaper reporters re-porters boodoa them? It is a fact. "As soon as any of our young animals get written up they die. Look at our giraffe. And when tho grizzly bears were born we said not a word about them in public. One we left with his mother and tho other I took and began to raise on a bottle. "One dav one of the newspaper men came out and saw the grizzly baby getting get-ting its bottle. He wrote it up at length and tbe little thing couldn't stand it. It died at once. And so when we have more babies out here we will keep them under cover until they gvt big enough to stand the hoodoo of newspaper publicity." publi-city." Cincinnati Times-Star. |