After settling her husband's affairs and taking a short rest in Peiping, Mrs, Harkness left Shanghai the latter part of September, "She slipped out of town quietly. Few people knew what she was attempting to do, There was only a brief paragraph In the newspapers saying that Mr. Young was leaving on an expedition. That was all, Mrs. Harkness was not even mentioned.
Never having been on an "expedi tion," Mrs. Harkness was somewhat fat a loss as to how 10 proceed until she' was fortunate enough 0 secure the services of the youthful Chinese explorer and sportsman, Yang Di Lin, whose English name' ts Quentl Young, namesake of Quentin Roosevelt, His brother, Jack. Young, hunted Giant Panda in 3929, with Theodore and "Quentin Roosevelt. They secured a skin which is now mounted, in the Field Museum of he used her husband's equipment, even to. wearing his 'Tibetan' boots fand having his clothes out down to With some garments she did not bother 10 do that; just wore them as they were, In September, Mrs. Hark ness and Ins, Young made the 1,500
It was dimeult feeding Baby tin" and keeping her warm in Chinese temples and. ditly villages. Everything went to Baby, Mr. Young and Mrs. Harkness eating out of one plate and using one towel. Tt was doubly diffeult because little known about the Panda family. somewhat resembles a bear and Faecoon, It has tiny eyes with black rims, like spectacles around them. The stomach ig brown; the forelegs black and the back of the two back Teas, black also. A. black saddle nees across the shoulders. The rest Is a ghostly white. cavels By Mane From discovery of this tiny baby atone ina tree trunk Mrs. Harkness has come to the conclusion that the Panda, unlike the bear, does not hhibernate, that the Pandas mate in the spring and the young are born inthe. autumn. The baby Panda, brought "to Shanghai by plane, weighed 4b, and 8 oz. on arrival. Yesterdey she weighed Ib. The Panda grows to weigh 200 to 300 Th, Mrs. Harkness is feeding her precious "Ssu-lin" ona powdered milk formula prepared by Dr. Francis Nance, Shortly on her arrival here, fired fom the trip. Mrs. Harkness fed the baby too quickly. Colic Geveloped. "The doctor was summoned, and a formula prescribed.
'The Panda, which has slept in Mrs. Harkness' room at the Palace Hotel, keeps regular hours, sleeping most of the time and waking and crying when she is hungry. So that Mrs. Harkness might get some rest, Some friends formed an small asso-lation. Leading members were Mr. Floyd James and Mr. Fritz Harden-brooke who have taken turns feeding the infant, Mr. Hardenbrooke even took 2 room across from Mrs. Harkness. and on alternate nights slept with the Panda ju his room. Mrs. Harkness and the amateur amahs all show the scars of bale because "Ssu-lin" has cat-like nails which she uses when she Isn't fed quickly enough. on awakening <"Su-lin® yawns, ike any baby. While Baby lin" is the only Giant Panda to the taken alive from Tibet six others
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