In Winter Quarters 



It is because so many of the Inmates 

 of the "zoo" are natives of either tor- 

 rid or frigid zones that their confine- 

 ment here condemns them to much 

 suffering. True, you can make that 

 elephant and her neighbors the pythons 

 and giraffe comfortable here in January 

 with a sufficient steam pressure, and 

 in the summer it gets quite hot enough 

 to meet their inborn notions of cli- 

 mate out-of-doors. But white bears 

 have no escape from our 100 degree 

 dog-day torments. So I figure that 

 they are worse off here than anybody 

 else. And they look it, and act it. 

 They are sure-enough neurasthenics. 

 To watch them going through that 

 endless forward-and-back, side step- 

 ping, head-tossing performance for any 

 great length of time almost gives me 

 "the willies." I should like to see 

 them at safe distance in their own 

 possessions, the snowy wilderness and 

 floating bergs, but in Lincoln Park 

 accommodations during August I can't 

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