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Show Who's a Copycat? Everybody! Man is, under the skin, and sometimes on top of it, remarkably remark-ably akin to the lower animals. His sense of self-preservation is just as acute. So are his appetites and a great many of his emotions. The following series of photos is not intended to poke fun at anyone, any-one, but is designed merely to draw a few parallels. In some o the cases portrayed the subjects have deliberately copied denizens of the lower animal kingdom. In others the similarity is purely accidental. ac-cidental. We could have drawn more deadly parallels, but our aim is a pleasing series and nothing would be gained by introducing unpleasantness. There is too much of that in the headlines. v. "s. N v ;:- V AMP IRE . . . In the upper picture we have a giant fruit bat, popularly called the vampire bat through a belief that it sucks human blood. It is not pretty. The maid in the lower picture suggests sug-gests a bat in flight making a pretty picture. Her cloak is designed to act as a sail on a ski run. Her name, Madeline O'Reilly, of New York. She was photographed at North Conway, New Hampshire. t " " A I ' cr x ; - ' Y U 1 ' ' ' - 4 y - NOSY . . . This monkey gets his name from his extraordinary proboscis. Nature gave it to him for a reason and the reason was not to make people laugh. t " - " 1 i : f . Is 1 I ' Ax 4 i & , v 't j SCHNOZZOLA . . . Jimmy Durante, famed stage and screen comedian, found that his nose is his fortune. The garland is Hawaiian leis. 1 'A 1 1 ' '" ' - f j - .: - .. e.x-'" h ' J i ' J -;- ' A" A - ' . ; l we don't pay too much attention at-tention to the grizzly bear's terrible ter-rible claws we manage to feel sorry for him, with his nose pressed pathetically against the bars pinine, for freedom. COUNTERPART . . . But we cannot pity this hrunan counterpart counter-part of the bear, glaring through the bars of his cell, on charge of killing a four - year - old girl through criminal attack. |