, teased to buy the charming turnout for 

 the use of their httle human monkeys. 



The cats had a display which met with 

 the highest favor from their Httle girl 

 visitors. Here were beautiful pussies of 

 every kind and color, with coats as soft 

 and shiny as silk. There were numbers 

 of the cunningest kittens, which rolled 

 and tumbled and went through their most 

 graceful motions to the unending delight 

 of the little spectators. 



This booth was gaily festooned with 

 strings of mice and rats, caught up here 

 and there by small rabbits, gophers and 

 moles. 



There was a string band that played in 

 this booth every afternoon to demonstrate 

 the superiority of cat-gut strings over 

 those made of silk or wire, as used on 

 violins, mandolins, guitars and all other 

 stringed instruments. They never failed 

 to announce that their bows w^re strung 

 with the finest of horsehair which had 

 been supplied by the horses whose booth 

 was farther down the grounds. 



The horses attracted every eye and 

 aroused much discussion among the vis- 

 itors as to whether horses would ever 

 be entirely superseded by automobiles 

 and electric engines. 



The children went into ecstacies over 

 the Shetland ponies, and the ladies de- 

 clared the Arabian horses ''too lovely 

 for anything." 



Every boy who visited this booth was 

 presented with a baseball covered with 

 the best of horsehide leather. 



But time fails me to tell of all the 

 wonderful things which this Fair pre- 

 sented to the eyes of admiring men. On 

 one point only was dissatisfaction ex- 

 pressed by the visitors — there was no 

 Midway. President Monkey, when in- 

 terviewed by a representative' of the As- 



sociated Press in regard to the omission, 

 made the following remarkable state- 

 ment : 



"No, it was not a matter of oversight. 

 The cai:nel volunteered to bring some of 

 his Arabs to establish the Streets of 

 Cairo, and some of the monkeys were 

 anxious to put in a Gay Paris display. 

 The lions wished to bring some trained 

 Wild Men of Borneo for a Hagenbeck 

 show, and the snakes wanted to do jug- 

 glery. You can see that there was no 

 lack of what misguided people call 'at- 

 tractions.' 



"The management discussed the Mid- 

 way from every point of view, and de- 

 cided that it was entirely too low grade 

 for a first-class entertainment such as 

 we desired to make. We felt that it 

 would only attract a rough class of visi- 

 tors, whose presence we did not desire. 

 And so the unanimous decision was, 'We 

 will have a good, clean, respectable 

 show or we will have no show at all.' 



"No, sir. Say emphatically in your 

 dispatches that the Midw^ay was inten- 

 tionally omitted. Such things may do 

 for men, but beasts will have none of 

 them." 



The Fair was in every way a success, 

 being carried through without disturb- 

 ance of any kind and coming out free 

 of debt and Avith much legal tender in 

 the treasury. 



Men were so much impressed by the 

 obligations which they owed to the ani- 

 mal world that t^ere was a decided im- 

 provement in their treatment of its vari- 

 ous representatives. While this state of 

 affairs cannot be expected to last long, 

 the animals have learned how to arouse 

 such respect and have decided to make 

 the Ani«-nal Fair an annual attraction. 

 Mary McCrae Culter. 



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