Show DADDYS PINK W POLAR BEARS it Is NN winter Inter said mother lother 1 polar what does that mean asked her children they were lust just bis big enough to be allowed out into the great world As QT Q T yet they knew very little it means ray my cubs said mother polar that it Is the coldest season of the year where we are living it Is never warm we love the cold TT hh bunn le ee ay up we dont feel and shiver cold sald gald them the polar cubs cub right said mother polar proudly you are strong and well just the way I 1 like to have you but cu far down from N where here we are they have lee ice and snow in the winter its not cold like it Is here though no they do not know AN what hat its like up here they think they know what nhat winter weather means but they dont all ah no were the fortunate ones cut but you said began the little bears that the people down thero there like our kind of weather neither do they you yon bright little creatures and it Is our 1 kind ind of weather just what we should call it IL of course earlier in the season seaon when h en you first came into the world I 1 saw that you were protected and sheltered but now nothing will hurt you and the ice and the cold will mal make you strong an and dwell well we love it they said ns as they played about imagine said mother polar aben when its winter where the people live they bundle up and shiver they have great enormous fires burning and they live in houses and buildings and apartments that are heated so that we would probably shrivel rl right ht up and die should we ever get la one we never will though will we mother no inlo my loves we never will cut but I 1 have chave heard this from occasional visitors who came to this part of the land and they say that when our cousins in the zoo go into their ley icy pond which Is given to them in their dens the people shiver and draw their furs closer they cannot understand our cousins at all and they could never understand us well said the cubs we wear our fur coats right next to us all the time we never get the chance to become cold so said mother polar but then ive never heard beard of people going in swimming where there was broken ice fee in the water even wearing their fur far coats they only go in when it is dreadfully hot in the sui summer niner time I 1 what do our zoo cousins do in the summer time when it Is hot they cant shed their fur coats any more 1 than we can eh asked the cubs no they cant shed their tur fur coats said mother polar though im sure they often wish they could ive heard that they hate bate the summer and spend all their time trying to get cool when it Is very hot the zoo keepers give them big pieces of lee ice but oh they melt very quickly in that sort of weather I 1 not our sort the cubs growled softly all ah no said mother will it get like that chat here when the summer comes asked the cubs I 1 no it will never get hot up lip here as it does there we will have broken lee ice in our lakes and rivers all summer long this Is esthe the land where its always winter and winter means cold weather I 1 glorious said the cubs the land where its always winter Is our horne home then they went for a swim with mother polar right into the ley icy water and they TF I 1 walked over cakes of lee ice as it they were ordinary parts in the woods or fields and while we would shiver still more if we could see them it is what they love and what makes it them happy but keepers give them they have hard pieces of lee ice ships to put up with in their faraway home and so they are wilder thau than the brown and black bears but they fire are happy oh so happy that they live in the part of the world where its always winter and where lee ice glorious cooling lee ice can always be found so it just makes us think that there is nothing in the world that make either some person or some animal happy and contented content edl I 1 |