Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — Page 2

Side Show Sidelights Diverting Chronicles of Circus Life

THE AMOROUS BABOON AND THE ANIMATED ART GALLERY. The fame of Jocko the Jealous, the amorous baboon, had preceded him to America, and when the animals from .□the, Baris Hippodrome had been safely transferred to their dens in the arena he was the center of attraction as he limbered up his muscles in the large - monkey cage, after the cramped accommodations of the small traveling box. He had gained a reputation as a masher in Paris; but never had the menagerie attendants seen him so madly in love and so insanely jealous as upon his first introduction to American beauty as exemplified by the fair woman who’stood before his cage. Jocko was not the first male being who had been fascinated by the charms of the prima donna during her career; for she had been through the marriage ceremony so often that she could say it backwards, never forgetting to cross her fingers before saying. “Until death do we part.” The Proprietor drew the Stranger’s attention to the group before the cage, a mischievous smile on his face as he looked over the half dozen of callow youths who are always in the train of the prima donna. "Watch out for squalls over there,” he said. “Jocko is affectionate now, but there will be something doing in a few minutes." The monkey was using all of the blandishments, known to an amorous baboon and although the words of his soft chattering were unintelligible, their import could not be mistaken by a past mistress of the gentle art of love making; but the prima donna could not be beguiled into placing herself within reach of the hairy paws. Suddenly his mood changed, for one of her male companions placed his hand on her arm to attract her attention and Jocko, giving a howl of rage, danced mat 'y up and down on all fours, showing a

"HE SMOKED HIS CIGAR IN THE LOBBY LIKE ANY OTHER GUEST."

vicious set of fangs as his lips curled In a hideous snarl. The bars of his Cage were strong and so close together that he could not get out to attack his rival; but he gathered up a mass of litter from the floor and showered prim a donna and callow youth alike. “Jocko gave quite a performance tonight,”said the Proprietor as he joined the press agent and the stranger at the table after the show “That baboon is crazy about women; but he trysn'i the discrimination of Consul, the most intelligent monkey that ever lived. You may remember that he was never quiet in his cage, but if a specially well-dressed woman stopped in front of it he played entirely to her and when she moved away his eyes followed her as long as she was in sight.” “There will never be another like Consul,” said the Press Agent, shaking his head sadly. ; “Never until the missing link is discovered,” replied the proprietor. “I don’t believe a more human monkey will ever be found, and I attribute his wonderful intelligence to the fact that he associated entirely with human beings, almost from the day of his birth. I got him from the captain of a tramp steamer which traded to the West coast, and I paid a goodish bit of money for him, too. I have never dared to tell his early history as it was told to me, for fear I should be laughed at for a liar; but stranger things happen in the'' animal business than ever get into print, and if I dared risk my reputation by telling the things which actually occur in a menagerie. I should never need a press agent.” The Press Agent looked at him reproachfully, but agreed with the proposition. The Proprietor, smiling at him approvingly, consented to tell the history of Consul, the famous chimpanzee, when the Stranger expressed his entire credulity and the Press Agent assumed an encouraging and sympathetic attitude. “Of course, I have to take the ship captain’s word for what happened before I bought him, but from the way the chimp developed and the Intelligence he displayed after he came Into my posseselon, I am prepared to be- . Iteve tt. He told me that he got him from the natives at tbe mouth a

By FRANCIS METCALFE

(Copyright by W. G. Chapman)

small river on the West coast, where he anchored his steamer to trade. They came off about the ship in their canoes, but he did not care for the and ivory they had to offer and he was about to hoist anchor,when one of them, who was, in a small canoe with a woman, motioned to him to stop. The woman was crouched up in the stem, nursing what the captain thought was a baby, but when the man dragged it away from her, in spite of her voluble protest, he saw that it was a small chimpanzee. The man seemed desperately anxious to trade —and I imagine the captain’s trade goods were not the sort to meet the entire proval of the missionaries—so that a bargain was concluded and the woman’s grief allayed by a generous share of the purchase price. As nearly as he could make out, she had found the little thing in the jungle when it was only a few days old and had reared it in place of a baby which had just died. She was a low type of woman, even for an African savage, but the maternal instinct was strong enough to make her grieve for little Consul, as the captain christened him. The monkey grieved over the separation, too, but sailors make much of animals and he soon became reconciled to it. "Thousands of people saw him after I purchased him, and you can judge of the reputation he attained when I tell you that I was getting fifteen hundred dollars a week for him in Berlin when he died, and he was booked for the entire seasdn at that price. People had seen him eat with a knife and fork, smoke a cigar, use a typewriter and do all of the stunts which simply aped humanity, but you had to live with the little beast to appreciate how intensely human he was. Everybody connected with the show loved him. "When he was in company he was as well mannered as most men, but, of course, he had his prejudices and

had to be watched. His special aversion was a negro, which is strange when you consider his early associations, and if one came around when he was loose he was apt to attack him. We had to consider that in traveling, for Consul always stopped at the hotels with his trainer and eat about the lobbies, smoking his cigar like any other guest, but If there were negro servants about, we had to be very careful not to let them come near him. "He had the reasoning power of a child ten years of age; he was patient when anything was wrong and we had to do disagreeable things to him, appreciating that it was for his benefit Only once did we have to use force, when it was necessary to pull a tooth, and I am glad it wasn’t oftener, for it took seven men to control him and they thought they had done a day’s work when we finished. The last time he went abroad he was the life of the ship, but he pretty nearly killed himself. The doctor prescribed a cough medicine for him and Consul liked it so well that he got up in the night, after his trainer had gone to sleep, opened the valise in which it was kept and emptied the bottle. I guess there must have been laudanum in it, for they had to work over him the rest of the night to save him. "He would walk,j the deck with the lady passengers, who made a great deal of him, and when the customary concert was given, nothing would do but that he must perform and then pass the plate for the collection. He was in evening dress and behaved like a perfect gentleman, and the collection was a large one. It was heaped on the plate, and he was just about to present it to the captain when a native West Indian stepped forward to make a contribution. The money for the Seaman’s home went flying to the four corners of the salon and the trainer had a difficult time in persuading Consul to retire without tearing the clothes off of the man whose only offense was his colot*. This was Consul’s last voyage, for he contracted pleurisy and died in Berlin.” "Have you found that early association with human beings makes the other animals nasler to train?” asked the Stranger, and the Proprietor shook his head. "No; I would rather train one taken in the jungle than an animal born In

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captivity. They do raise the pumas la South America and* have them about the houses as we do cats; but I wouldn’t trust one of ’em. And as for the bigger cats, the lions and tigers, there is no such- thing as taming them. They may be trained to do certain things, but they are never trustworthy. We had a queer illustration of > that when I was traveling with a caravan circus in France. One of the lionesses had a litter of three cube, and in the excitement of the moting and strange surroundings, she killed two of them. We took the other one away and the woman who cooked for us volunteered to raise it. She became very much attached to it and developed the theory that she could overcome its savage instincts by diet, and for a time it looked as if she were right The beast was with her for about two years and grew to a fine animal, but she never let him taste raw food. One day, when he was comfortably lying before the stove, ehe pushed him with her foot to get him out of the way and he resented it. Whether it was that alone, or whether the odor of meat which she was about to cook appealed to him, I don’t know; but all of his savage instincts were aroused and-when we secured him we found that he had taken most of her scalp off.” "It’s funny how some people are always looking for a chance to get damages,” said the Press Agent, settling himself comfortably in his chair. “We had a case of it when Merritt and I were running a dime museum out west. The freaks all lived togetfffer at a large boarding house and one morning, when they reported for duty, the 'Tattooed Lady’ was missing. It was before the days when they were so common and we had spent a lot of money to have her decorated and made her our star attraction. Of course, none of the tattooing was visible when she was in street costume, but when she sat on the platform dressed in low neck and short skirts the lecturer had something to talk about, for the menagerie pictured on her was a thing of beauty, and the few choice texts like, 'Be good and you will be happy,’ which were scattered in between the animals, were highly moral and elevating, and that was one of the strong points of our show. Merritt used to spread himself when he was telling how she was shipwrecked on a desert island and held captive by the cruel cannibals, whose high priests spared her from the menu to tattoo her with the symbols of their heathenish worship. It gave him a great chance to come in strong on the moral part, when he explained about the texts and told how they were added after the cannibals had been converted to ' red flannel shirts, silk hats and a vegetable diet, by the missionaries, and I have seen ancient maiden ladies Tnoved to tears by this recital. So when he had to give his lecture without her, he got mixed up and called attention to the marvelous growth of hair on the face of the 'Circassian Beauty,’ thinking she was the ‘Bearded Lady,’ and nearly pulled the ears off of the ‘Dog Faced Boy,’ trying to explain that he was ‘The Man With the Rubber Skin.’ Of course, that made trouble among the freaks, who are a mighty touchy lot anyway, and I have noticed that trouble always comes in bunches in the show business, so I wasn’t surprised when a husky guy that looked like a farmer came in with blood in his eye and asked for the manager. I looked around for Merritt, but he had gone around the corner to get something to drown his sorrow, so I slipped a piece of lead pipe under my coat and acknowledged the soft impeachment "Look’ee here, wot kind of a skin game be youse fellers runnin’ here?* says the guy and I took a good grip on the lead pipe and tried to turn away wrath by a soft answer, and quoting from our advertisement that it was a highly moral and Intellectual entertainment -—— " *Not by a dern sight, it ain’t,’ says he. —'It’s a blasted man-trap to ketch the unwary, an’ I’ll have the law on ye an’ make yer pay fer trifling with my young affections.’ I have had some pretty tough things said to me in my day, but that was about the worst ever, and pretty nearly took Uiy breath away, but he went right on. "‘I deliver milk to that boardin’ house down the street an’ I see a likely lookin’ gal there lately an’ I wanted some one to help mflk an’ look aft-' er the . house, so I asks Ker to marry me. She says she will, so we hitched up an’ I never knew she was one o’ yer dern freaks until it was too late. She says she’s a “Tattooed Lady,” an’ she’s all covered with pictere.’ “ ‘Well, what’s the matter with ’em?’ says I. ‘Aren’t they good pictures?’ “ ‘Good enough,’ says he, ‘for them as likes ’em; but I don’t hanker after no decorations o’ that kind an*, b’gosh, I’ll make yer pay fer palmin’ off a damaged article on me. She’s all over snakes an’ other beasts an’ it makes me sick ter my stummick every time I thinks of ’em.’ ”

“How did you- settle it —did he get damages?” asked the Stranger. "Damages!” exclaimed the Press Agent as he wiped the foam from his mhstache. "Why, Merritt came in, and when he heard the guy kick he lit right into him. “ ‘Blame your skin!’ he yelled. ‘l’ve a good mind to have you arrested for stealing the pictures from my art gallery. I have a claim on ’em, for I paid for the liquor to keep a sailor happy for six weeks while he was doing that job.’ The guy got onto the fact that she was valuable, so they adjourned to a case to talk it over." "With what result?” asked the Proprietor, as he rose from the table. "Well, Merritt got her back on the platform, the farmer sold his farm, and within six weeks he wag wearing more yellow diamonds and throwing a bigger chest than the husband of a grand opera prime donna.”

TO ACCOMPANY COLO SUPPER

Nothing Better Can Be Devised Than Vegetable Aspic Made According to These Directions. An excellent dish for a cold supper Is a vegetable aspic made from the following ingredients: Beets, white cauliflower, potatoes, French beans, artichokes, good aspic Boil the vegetables very carefully to retain their color. When cold, cut some French beans into diamond shapes, and after slicing the potatoes and artichokes, stamp them out with a small fancy cutter. Break up the cauliflower into small branches. Lay these on one sidA Then cut some more sliced beets and potatoes into two-inch lengths, a quarter of an inch wide, and French beans the same length. Pour a little aspic jelly into aborder mold, and lay the beans closely together at the bottom. Then line the sides of the mold by arranging the strips Of beets and potato alternately. Each piece must be first dipped in aspic to make it adhere, and the work will be simple and quick If the mold is imbedded in ice. When the decoration is complete fill the border with jelly. When set, and just before serving, the mold is turned out. The rest of the vegetables are gently tossed with mayonnaise sauce, lightly piled up in the center of the border, and finally garnished with thin fancy pieces of beet.

HASH MADE OF BAKED HAM

For Breakfast or Luncheon This Is Both an Appetizing and Satisfying Concoction. Materials —Chopped ham, one and a half cups; cooked potatoes, two cups: celery, one cup; milk, one cUp; chopped onion, two tablespoonfuls; green peppers, four tablespoonfuls; salt and pepper or paprika. Directions—The ham and potatoes should be chopped, not too fine; then add all the remaining ingredients. Put a tablespoonful of vegetable fat, or butter, into the spider, and turn the ingredients into it. Cover and bake in moderate oven for half an hour. When ready to serve, cuj in half as you would an omelet, fold and serve plain with a tomato sauce or poached eggs. This can easily be prepared, by having things ready, in a half hour’s time, as it is understood the ham and potatoes are both cooked. This can all be prepared several hours before, except putting in milk; then it can be put into the oven and baked the required time.

Cocoa Leopard Cake.

Take two-thirds of a cup of butter, two cups of sugar, four egge, one cup of cold water, three cups of flour, two teaspoons of cream of tartar and one of soda. Take out half of the dough, and add three tablespoons of cocoa and a little vanilla. Flavor the light part to taste and put in the pan in layers, first light, then dark, or dot the dough around in spots. Of course, baking powder can be used if preferred, but there, are some cooks who still chug to the old methods.

Peppermint Drops.

Rub the inside of a brass or block tin saucepan with a little oil or butter. Put into it half a pound of powdered and sifted loaf sugar, and two or three tablespoons of water or strained lemon juice. Place the saucepan on the fire and let the sirup boil for ten minutes, then stir into it a dessert-spoonful of the essence of peppermint or 120 drops of the oil of peppermint. Let the mixture fall in drops upon white paper which has been Well rubber over with butter.

Tongue Toast.

Mince remnants of boiled tongue very fine,, mix with cream or milk and simmer slowly. Add the beaten yolk of one egg and stii until egg is cooked. Have ready buttered toast and spread meat over it. If you like it a little grated cheese can be sprinkled over it; if not the bread can be placed on the stove until the meat browns slightly. Ham toast can be made in the same way of the lean remnants of ham. .It is nice for breakfast.

Butterless, Eggless Cake.

Cook together one cup of brown sugar, one cup of water, one-third cup of lard, two cups of seeded raisins, onexjuarter teaspoon of nutmeg, one teaspoon of cinnamon, one-half tagspoon of ground cloves and a pinch of sp.lt.— Boil for three minutes and cool. Add one tehspoon of soda dissolved in twe teaspoons of hot water, two cups of flour in which one-half teaspoon of baking powder has been added.

Chicken Cooked in Cream.

Prepare young chicken as for fricassee. Roll in flour, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Lay in buttered pan close together. Cover with sweet, rich cream and bake until cream is nearly all cooked away, and top of chicken is nicely browned. Chicken must be young and tender for this.

Saving Gas.

When cooking with gas, to save expense, if you will take a sheet of tin wide enough and long enough to cover two burners, you need only have one gas burner going, in this way you may cook soup, meats, etc., and iron by one burner.

Grilled Potatoes.

Cut up- cold white or sweet boiled potatoes in slices a quarter of an inch thick, salt and boil over coals a few minutes, then lightly butter and serve hot.

For Handy Bous and Girls to Make and Do

TOY TRAVELING CRANE.

By A. NEELY HALL.

This is an easily carried out idea that will be productive of a great deal of fun. The crane may be used to hoist earth, and dump it to one side out of the way, In building a miniature Panama canal, or for excavating for a toy well, or any other play engineering feat you may think of. The toy crane may be built upon your express wagon, or a home-made wagon of the form shown in Fig. 1. A clothes-pole or short rug-pole may be used for the mast (A, Fig. 2). The lower end should stick through a hole cut in the wagon-bed, and the two crosspieces B should be nailed to the sides several inches above the bottom end so they will rest upon the wagon-bed. When the mast has been let in place, nail a pair of crosspieces limilar to pair B to its end, beneath the wagon-bed, to brace it. The stick B, nailed to the upper crosspieces, is the lever by which the mast is turned.

The mast-top pulley is a thread spool, mounted on a long spike driven through the blocks D, and blocks D are securely nailed to the end of the mast.

The swinging boom (Fig. 3) Is made of the two side strips G, separated 6 inches from the outer end by the block H, and its’spool pulley is mounted in the same way as the mast pulley spool. Fasten the mast end of the boom with nails driven through the sides of strips G into the mast. The wrapping-twine hoisting cable has a hook bent out of heavy wire attached to its end, and the cable runs over the boom pulley, then through a screw-eye in the mast at E, and from there over to a windlass, while the cable which raised the boom is attached to a nail In block H, runs up and over the mast-top pulley, down through the screw-eye at F, and over to a second windlass. Figure 4 shows how the windlasses are mounted upon the edges of a box, and Fig 5 shows how the drums are

made. The shaft Ais a broom-handle, the crank strip B has a hole bored through it for the shaft to fit in, and the spool C is fastened to the end for a handle. Drum Dis a baking-powder can, and it is nailed to the wooden end block F, and the can cover E is nailed to the end block G. Holes must be cut through the end blocks, and the cover and bottom of the can, so all will slip onto the axle, and, after the cover has been fitted on to the can, the end blocks must be secured to the shaft with nails. Notch the top edges of the box, to receive the drum shafts, and nail strips of wood over them, as shown,

to hold them in place; also drive nails through the ends of the shafts, to prevent them from slipping lengthwise. Nail the windlass box to the wagon.

(Copyright by A. Neely HaO)

A HOME-MADE INDOOR CROQUET SET.

By DOROTHY PERKINS.

The illustrations show how a splendid croquet set for indoor use may be constructed inexpensively. Clothespins, a few sticks, some small tacks,

and 5-cent rubber balls are all that ia required for making the outfit. A completed arch is shown Jn Fig. 1, and Figs. 2, 3 and 4 show how to make it Two clothespins (A) have a crosspiece (B) fastened- in their open ends, and cardboard shoes attached to their other ends. Cut crosspieces B about 5 inches long, and fasten each end with small tacks driven through the clothespin ends into them. Cut the cardboard shoes by the pattern of Fig. 3, and fold each in two places as indicated by dotted lines. The folded shoes will have the form shown in Fig. 4. Tack the shoes to the sides of the clothespins. Make nine arches. Two end. stakes are necessary, and Figs. 5, 6 and 7 show how each is

made with a clothespin (D), a cardboard shoe (E), and a small wooden wedge (F). Cut wedge F to fit tha open end of the clothespin, and after cutting the cardboard shoe E by the pattern of Fig. 7, fold it as shown in Fig. 6. tack to the edges of wedge F» and slip into the open end of the clothespin as shown in Fig. 5. Then drive a couple of tacks through the clothespin into wedge F. Figures 8 and 9 show how the croquet mallets are made with a clothespin head and a stick handle. The way to arrange the * croquet arches upon the floor is shown in the diagram of Fig. 11. Following is the proper, spacing for the arches when the end stakes are placed ten feet -apart Stand arches No. 1 and No. 7

(Fig. 11) 12 inches from the stakes, stand arches No. 2 and No. 6 12 inches away from, and in line with, arches No. 1 and No. 7, and stand arch No. 4 exactly half way between'arches No. 2 and No. 6. Stand arches No. 3 and No. 9 24 inches to the sides of arch No. 2 and three inches nearer the center, and stand arches No. 5 and No. 8, 24 inches to the side of arch No. 6 and 3 inches nearer the center. The rules for playing indoor croquet are the same as those which govern lawn croquet Start the ball at arch No. 1, drive it through arches Nos. 1,2, 3,4, 5, 6 and 7, in the order named, and make it strike the end stake. Then, returning, drive the ball successively through arches Nos. 7,6, 8,4, 9, 2 and 1, and strike the stake. The first player to cover the couraa wins the game.