Who wants to buy a baby elephant and give it to juvenile Shanghai? The younger generation have been going about with woe-begone faces for the past three weeks, mourning for the cunning beast which aroused an enduring affection in everyone's hearts during the brief time when hho was loaned to the Jessfield Zoo, A nice rally-polly elephantine child may te had from Singapore for only Tis, 700. His transportation 0 Shanghai would cost about Tis, 300 more, and elephants are investments which do nct dwindle, They last for. years and years, and baby elephants Stay babyish for decades. If there is anyone who has doubts concerning the intrinsic merit of Tls. 700 worth of baby elephant any Shanghai child will promptly dispel them, 'The baby elephant, which has been most adored by the Shanghai kiddies acring his brief sojourn in Jessfield Zoo last month, recently perpetrated the "Elephant Disappear' which purpose it app primarily ordained.
Owned Nicola, the magician who performed recently in Shanghai, he has gone with his niaster to Japan and from there he will travel on to America, Nicola is training the diminutive beast and by the time the duo arrives in the United States it hopes to impress American audiences by an elephant disappearing stunt, which would be no small act considering that such manceuvres are usually imited to egg, rabbits, and dove:
The baby elephant wi the most appreciated ani has ever been in Shanghai during the few days when he was host to thousands of admirers who came to sce him at Jessfield Zoo, Everybody Joved him, including Nicola, who vefused to part with him for any Amount of money. Mr. W. J. Kore, Park Superintendent, tried to buy him ahd was refused. So was Miss Viola Smith, American Trade Commissioner, who wanted to make of, him a gift to the Zoo and the children in Shanghai, The small animal 4s two yours old and came from S gapore. Nicola loaned him to the Zoo, believing that he would remain in Shanghai longer than he did, However the elephant had only been there a little over a week when Nicola received a cable regarding the openings of his new season in Japan and the elephant was forced to leave his countless new friends and go along too. Nicola is a keen. over of animals, in face every time he toes to Americu he takes a cargo "of beasts with him, At one time his menagerie consisted of several thousand animals and birds, which he sold to various. zoos in the United State Mr. Kerr, the Park Superintendent, has been #0 touched by the Kiddies' devotion to the baby elephant that he has decided to try to bring one to Shanghai next year. Those children who flocked to the 200 a short time ago. with thei bananas and sugar and other offer inns, only to find their friend had disappeared over night, may hope for a similar playniate, Mr. Kerr estimates that a small elephant can de bought for Tls. 700 and the total cost, including freight, would be a bit less than Tis." 1,000.
And the next one who comes to Shanghai will come to stay.
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