Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1919 — Zoo Superintendent Finds New Husband for Mourning Widow in Alligator Family [ARTICLE]

Zoo Superintendent Finds New Husband for Mourning Widow in Alligator Family

For many weeks Cy De Vry, superintendent of the Lincoln Park Zoo at Chicago; watched with utmost " concern t|ie ravages of melancholia upon the person and psychology of Desdemona, the brunette alligator, who some time since was bereft of her husband. He succumbed to influenza. They were inseparable and had achieved a oneness of concord rarely encountered in the domestic domain. The unalloyed bliss they enjoyed was manifest to all. It was natural that with the visit of the grim reaper the weaker vessel, deprived at one fell stroke of prop and stay, should mourn deeply. But De Vry thought time would assuage her grief. In this he was in error. After a consultation he. decided that but one hope remained —to obtain a new husband. In the Florida jungles there was captured Othello, a blackamoor. If Cupid’s darts prove potent the gnawing grief wearing away the widow’s heart will be eradicated forever and a day.