Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1916 — GIRL LEADS LION LIKE DOG [ARTICLE]

GIRL LEADS LION LIKE DOG

Hdbby of Young Heiress Is Wild Animal Pets. New York. —It was years ago that Miss Maude Henry first dreamed ot leading a lion around on a chain. But as chief clerk in a mercantile nouse, she did not imagine her dream pver would be realized. Lions cost money. Then an aunt died, naming Miss Henry as her heiress to a comfortable fortune. “When I got the money,” said Miss Henry, as held Napoleon, a 10-weeks-old lion, beside her in her motor car, "I quit work and commenced buying pets. “The first purchase, made last August, was Beauty,, a leopard. Three coatimundis followed. ‘They are i species Of ant-eater with muzzles like the nozzle of a fire hose. Mike, a talkative Hindustance monkey, came text. A pet crow was bought, and a red fox. Then came Napoleon. “You see, 1 ’ coni led Miss Henry' ‘years ago I had two friends, who kept wild animal pets. I fell in love vith them. All I could afford in those tm- were dogs. I had lots of dogs.’’ s Does she train 1 r new pets? "Oh, no," said M.ss Henry, Who Is email and feminine. “I have too desire to be a wild animal trainer. I just like to be friends with them.”