| Show SMALL PRESIDENT i Animals Roosevelt's Love for Responsible for Many Different Species WHITE RATS TOA CUB BEAR Children have IIa l in lit llou c j Lot Loose President Roosevelt's well known love hove of animals and aid nature has be beIng ng sent bent cd In a perfect menagerie gil Lu and his children to him time the world arid ant pour in from all over IT If all that thia reach the While House were allowed lo to remain there lucre Ito tho hums his historic would resemble a ui wel toi grounds Washington Wash Wash- zoological park The rime ington Post In lolling lolling- of the live says ays that gifts of from not at atall atall countries art friends In foreign the ltd all infrequent Only recently received i from from- King an Arabian zebra and ami lii- lii of Abyssinia two iwo ostrIches These can now be seen n Hnat at the Iho Zoological park whore they wide attention The variety of American animals ranges from white rats raus and mice tt lo loa a cinnamon cub bear A small lion ibis has also been received Tile The arrival of an or even a st Cal cai nr UI dog fails to IC crealo moths more llian pacing pun pac ing Interest among Lie younger members mom mem bers of hO- hO Presidential family Probably Pi the most cons commented upon non ii animal at th tb White House is the house cat v She She- Is different from ordinary cats In iii she hums has MX six Slippers is now a permanent household fixture e In the tho Presidents President's Liked Alice A parrot of the Mexican double yellow head variety Is a pet oC of which all the tho Roosevelt children are arc It is an au exceptionally intelligent bud bird and pronounces the lie i of duffel cut members of the lie fam- fam am- am II It has ILaS been at the While hult fyi for several al years and was fOnt of bt while site sho was a girl h there luCre Its Ils voice shouting Alice frt fn- Alice could be heard ringing inning through tho thu hal hallways It is that after time the of Miss Roosevelt lo to RepresentatIve the rot parrot seemed scorned to grow dull and lo to lose Interest in life Ho no longer Slapped flapped hi his Wings nor mum did thid his ehi cries ring through the house II It was vas many many- days before he lie became accustomed to her absence The y story of cf how two Kansas jack aclu jackrabbits rabbits found heim- heim way lo to Whilo House Is Interesting They fliey trail had been ti brought front from the be Vest Wesl by E E. 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S the bird and nd animal dealer d on oil street One slay day while be being be- be ing fed they tIme from their thelt- cage c A wild era in We was made to rap cup lure them by the attendants but bul their training on out tIme the plains of the lie Sun Sun- state staLe stood thorn them well and they left lieu num at tho ho post It Reach Ing G at Twelfth they separated t oi o the tho theother other west both through bus busy arid and dro di tT r boy r af ift that was ut till Both animals were large specimens specimens- anti and as the spread out their long bug limbs many thought hoUght they wore were young deer One of the rabbits was captured at and Jt streets Northeast a distance dis tance of more than two miles The rime took refuge i in the White While House House- grounds where il it remained for or soy soy- oral days daya affording an opportunity foi several hunting expeditions expedition's on thu ho honart part of the boys Aa a means of his rabbit Its mate was taken lo to the ti-me White house Houe grounds and turned loose and 11 it is salt bald both arc till still there Mr chmid having decided on request of representatives rehire rehire- of the President li not not- notto to molest molest mo mo- lest them further Mr Mi is also responsible for foe forthe time the presence of a large number of saul robs at tho ho White House and the I i-by i parts parks A About Lou t two iVy yen years vs ago age he liberated two hundred squirrels cims ic mc Lafayette Lafayete Park just just- opposite the thue Ex Executive Executive Ex- Ex grounds They Tile vero mostly of time the gray timid mid rot rod pine species but among them were sucro some Hying nels Those In In- Inthe the tho White House ground ground- have mitt j o tame tame- that thai wil eat cal from the hands of those wiio dj dis display play nIa enough Interest lo a stop lop anti and pc nc them On days when time the sun suit shine brightly they aro amo much in in iii the tics jn lii the ti-me shrubbery shu and or ortho tho lawn last and auth the younger Roose clu often stop lo to play with them S Like the Policeman They have found an especial iu fric-iu In lii Policeman Curtis the big stationed In time the Jumi ju east t.-of t. of tIme Iho main entrance to tin hi White House He Ito always carries nut for the tho squirt In lit his pockets an all I time they know how lo to get them Th- Th little animals also appear lo to know th tb hours when clerks dorks in time the Man stati Manwar war and navy departments go to 0 them k and when thud again in lit thu evening They lie line the lie wallet walks through time the executive grounds gi at those times limes limesand and look up Ui into the face of those them who pass The othet- othet day one omie of the Iho squirrel mado so bold as lo to walk right Into th Ut vestibule of the n n- n would have gone gont in lit farther had v ii va a screen prevented Recent to the lIme family fain c e pets at tit the Hou e aru t. A Agora gora cats These item e left lo to Pro Pro- Roosevelt by the lie will of u a No York ork woman who also made him c t- t of her mci estate The property wt wr turned over by tIme the President to t Ui i woman's womans relatives and as they the di lt not lot care for the Angora a eats cuts thi thu SOne sl given a l place in the of the flint first family of the land The children eum also have r- r Pets several ai guinea pigs but it Is the dogs and ponies that give gl them i. i th most pleasure o. One of the tho dog S in was uvas presented to Archibald Archiba d j h hana su-as- su and ana er big gain in the Dakotas The other dogs a big St St. amid a |
