DANCING BEARS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1937, Page 20

DANCING BEARS

Dancing bears will soon be no more seen in Rumania, states the "Children's Newspaper." This favourite amusement of the people of villages in the Balkans has been forbidden by a decree of the Rumanian Government. It was^ public opinion that righted this wrong,, complaints reaching the ears of high personages in the Government that the owners of dancing bears, most of whom are. gipsies, treated the animals with much cruelty while they were training them. We hope other countries will follow Rumania's lead, and that soon all performances of dancing bears will be as rare as cockfighting.

MR. MINNIT. (Copied.) Mr; Mlnnlt menfe my soles When I have walked them Into holes; He works in such a funny place; And has a wrinkly, • twinkly face. His hands aro brown and hard and thin. His thread rocs slowly out and in; He cannot walk without a crutch; I like him very, very much, Found by JOH.V WAKKM. Kllbirnlc. SPRINGTIME.

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In springtime when Hie fairies play They steal the colour of the leaves away. They paint the flowers and leaves so bright, But the daisies and lilies-, they leave just ..'.'■ white. • : •"■■■:■ ' •'■

ANNIE WIIiKLVSOX (10)

OUR GARDEN.

Above, her plain brown summer frock Our garden wears a gay-hucd smock— Beet-purple, cream of cabbage heads, Fresh green or. carrots, parsley beds, And ycllbw^of. new celery. With crayons I could make you see Our kitchen garden, gay and neat. Her lap filled with things good to eat!1 ■—Kachel Day.