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Show Animals Require Almost: as Good Care as Mother's Darling - rar is liko a baby hu-fjfjjo hu-fjfjjo most of the time, In -nature steps in and man who bad spent (taker of wild animals. 8 jay charge three kit-jf kit-jf they would live to that tigers cannot bo ity. In tho day lime irrinfT kittens, when jofT and the mother a We, does not seem to tesib attentions. 1'ou psifhns a suspicious nn-fto nn-fto act up suddenly. VCj into her care she is Wand it is just as well ffoach even though she Sffit- snarl. The reason fieVunnatural thing o tones at times is be-4b be-4b thev may be taken bile still helpless, bho gfd- of her babies than jworrics about them Abe got big enough to Ives, tho mother be-ffc be-ffc She acts as if sue fern so long as it was f"vjaot big enough ann Eo shift for them-wbs them-wbs all that could be tress is mom sensitive tien hnr babies get big ib'ut safely and plav, tVgood feeling, but It jer sight or hearing jgoaturc comes to t!ic aes so wildly anxious soothe her until tlu-stored. tlu-stored. Theso three Jpre of prido to me Mothor Tiger "Rose." than anything in Singling Brothers' menagerie. That they sleep soundly and often is a great comfort. That they romp and wrestle and play a good deal of tho time every day is the same. When a boy or girl is lull of energy and bounces roundabout, it doesri t J take a doctor to read that he is sound and growing. You can spell the health of a wild animal in the same way. ' 'Tigers are a bundle of nerves, and' Two Tiger Kittens. like nervous people, they must ridgct and twitch, and so on. like nil possessed And like some kind of a human being they are easily upset by bad weather and unpleasant people. I mean by "unpleasant "un-pleasant people, those that do not appeal ap-peal to them. You know there are a lot iu the world of this kind when you come to consider the feelings of uorv rus or highly sensitive humans. Tlii way to bring up baby wild animals is urettv much the same way that you bring up baby humans. When you find a boy or a girl that jumps around and raise's merry Ned all day. and worries wor-ries his grandma almost to death, you ran bet that he is in tho way of making mak-ing a man with plenty of 'get and go.' and who will hold his own in tint rough scramble of the world. When -a baby tiger or a baby lion jumps around 'aud shows a playful interest in-terest in things, a keeper takes heart, because there is no better token of ; growing strength. The tiger has a bad name, and it deserves it. for it is lik. a man who goes through the world with his hand raised against everybodv "Most animals are capable of attach mcnt even with those of a, different fa mil v. but the tiger livps only for him self, and onlv makes trouble when mixed with other animals. The love ol their young, however, is marked and beautiful. Their babies they watch over like a young mother, and caress with the same fond pride. So long as the little ones arc soft, in bono and un-weancd. un-weancd. they always sleep with one eve open. Tiptoe to a tiger's den in the darkest hour of night, and you will find it so. The babies will be curled nr Hose fo the mother's broast, and j breathing deeply, but the mothor will be dozing and alerr to the slightest noise. The wear and care of babies upon a mother tigress drags her down just as the same enxicty will a sensitive sensi-tive human mother. i "I am alwaj'S glad when tho little I ones get big enough to take away. "Even this has to bo done gradually. ! That is to say, the .youngsters are at i first put in an adjoining cage, so that ! they may be seen and heard by their parents, and even when well grown, it is a good plan to keep them within sight, or at times to bring them together to-gether where they can sniff and caress each other after the manner of their kind. " "Ringling Brothers arc cspecialb; proud of these three little tigers. I have roller curtains at tho sides ot the cage so that the light may be softened at anv timo tho cubs look tired, and their lids droopv. The more good sleep thev get, the mnsc (lcsh and bone naturo will give them. It is interesting interest-ing to sfce the mother, an intense y nervous, creature, settle into a deathlike death-like quiet when the babies relax in sleep. When they are awake sue moves like a ball of perpetual motion. You know this ceaseless going and coming com-ing and waving of body and head is meat and drink to the. health of the. creature. Whon a monkey sleeps he picks out the highest perch he can Ann. When tho only home.of the monkey was a forest he lived always in deadly feav of the lion, and a live monkey is the choicest kind of a meal for the king of beasts. "Although the monkey is rather a wis'e boy. and knows that in a zoo the lions are- securely caged, tho fear or. tli: lion is born in 'him, and this accounts for his finding as high a perch as he can to slee.p on. Tho lioness, wh3u free from family cares, is pro.no to lie on its back, with its legs stretched up straight iu tho air and paws pendant. The lion, whon the excitement of the Hay is gone, stretches itself out flatly on its sido with paws turned in andj twitches and throbs during its slum I ber a good deal like a dog. Goriuas and chimpanzees sleep with their hands over their hcad3. Bears, which have no foar, sleep in any position. The same is true of wolves. Animals of a cunning natui;e, however, are always al-ways on the alert, oven when- asleep. A seal sloops liko a human being. Tt stretches out at full length, and enters en-ters dreamland on its back, stomach or side.',' ' '' . ) ' , V v? -:i?-'Jrr " ' Two Lion Cubs. |