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Show GOAI CARES FOR BAR! HIPPOPOTAMUS Hippo. Spurned by Parents. Is Taken Care of by Foster-Mother. Foster-Mother. , Paris has a unture story that it attracting at-tracting more public iutercst than tho Morocco crisis. Parisians aro ready to guarantee the genuineness of the story and its curious 'features if its credibility credi-bility is attucked oven by such an august au-gust authority as President Roosevelt. At the Jardiii des Plantes the hippopotamus hippo-potamus Lizettc presented her conjugal partner Khako with a fine baby hippo. There was much rejoicing at the zoo over the advent of the hoir, and Lizettc was the only disinterested party. This is tho fourth offspring that she .has borne in captivity, and no doubt she was resentful that tho other three .babes died from sheer neglect. As Lizetto is so strougmiuded as not to believe in motherhood or object to furnishing sightspurs with more hippos, this treat-inr-ut is believed to be tho result of civilization, as a wild hippopotamus is a careful mother. Tho keepers of the r.oo were ambitious j to rpar the young hippo, so the off-i off-i spring was taken from Lizettc. Fortu- nately there was a Hock of goats in the menageries, anil one of them was sc-I sc-I lectca as a foster mother. This being her natural profession sho did iiot rebel j even when tho baby hippo tried to de-1 de-1 rive the natural sustenance of her supply. sup-ply. The experiment has been a great success and the baby, which was christened chris-tened larius, is thriving on goat's milk. At first five goats daily supplied his needs, but it now requires eight to do j the work, and before he is weaned uu- 1 doubtedlv all the goats anywhere near Paris will be requisitioned." |