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Show titachery, but so far we cannot call cur adopted friends anything but angelic an-gelic in disposition. Probably the vegetarian diet has something to do v. '.th it. I am more inclined to think that bears, like every other living (venture, respond to kind treatment and give as they receive; but I may, , of course, be mistaken. "As I said before, bears are much l.ke children," continued Mrs. Spell-man. Spell-man. "The whole secret of training lies in studying a bear so you know his disposition, and keeping your eyes open. Hears arc as variable as human hu-man beings are One wiil rsepond quickly to training and will go through his work with a certain amount of pleasure and will act childishly happy over his reward, which generally consists con-sists of candy or sweetened water. Another will grumble and growl during dur-ing his lessons." Harriet Quimby in Leslie's. . BEARS ARE LIKE CHILDREN. "Performing bears are susceptible to cold, and to keep them well while they are in a theater we maintain an een temperature of about sixty degrees. de-grees. Strange as It may seem, bears aisn suffer from inuigestlou. so much to that the babies must be fed on one cow's milk, just as human babies i re. We use condensed milk for them now, because wc cannot always be sure of cow's milk. Both grown-ups fnd babies are extremely, fond of can-dks can-dks and will, cat anything In the fiweet line except chocolate. They like honey, of course, but they are so rriuesy about eating It that "we never give it to them We have never had &ii accident without auiiuils. Naturally Natur-ally we are always on the lookout for |