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la in. Ts. SM pa Ue RATAN RRMRETRRTRE SS XK FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1918 | FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1918 PICKING AMAN FORSUCCESS--No. 1 YL A Vi O\"“5 yO" Bill Snyder’s ““Good-Bye” _ Frail Men Are Misfits | To Park Zoo Boarders |. Unless P roperly Trained; Minus Muscle, Frail Type Should Develop Brain Power A Real ‘Lovers’ Parting (THESE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DR. BLACKFORD’S ARTICLE DELINEATE THE TYPE WHICH Dr. Blackford Tells Why SUCCEEDS ONLY WHEN MIND AND NATURAL TALENTS ARE EMPLOYED After Thirty-Two Years on the Job as Doctor, Nurse, Dentist, Chef and Friend to the Zoo's ‘Who's Who,” Bill Is Tue PHYSICALLY FRAIL TYPE } Winding Up His Last Week ‘At Home.” 5 aoa end es mand at By Robert Welles Ritchie \ Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). F you knew what Bill knew of the gnu, \\ Or the college-bred Thibetan yak, r Capable of High Achievements If Their Mental Talents Are Developed Through Education, but Bound to Fail If Unschooled or Set at Physical Labor. ~~ Katherine M. H. Blackford, M. D., co-author with Arthur New- cone You could talk in the slang of the boy ‘rang-outang eomd of “Analysing Character,” “The Job, the Man, the Boss,” and m S i And the rowdy New Mexican jack. taventor of the Blackford employment plan, hes authorised The DM § a AiR nt | —From “Anthology of the Zoo.” ning World to reproduce from their books a series of articles descr» hep plata H or tng how to fit cach type of man to the job which will bring Aim suc THIS “TYPE Mawes SLOPING | ocas., The first article deals with TEACHERS, LAWYERS, 4 SHOULDERS When the time comes—and may it be far away—when old Bill rer ront AN tae jonvoeu is gathered to his fathers, somebody with a keen appreciation of | what was happiest and noblest in the life of the Central Park Zoo's {animal man will grave something like this on his tombstone: “Bill Snyder, who loved a hippopotamus.” Maybe it would be a finer tribute still to chisel the corollary to this proposition, far more significant: “Bill Snyder, who was loved by a hippopotamus.” | After all, it is something of distinction to be beloved by a hippopot- amus—particularly by such a famous diva in the hippopotamus circle |as Miss Murphy. Undeniably, Miss Murphy loved Bill Snyder, as did \B UNTRAINED THIS TYPE | Abdul, the scornful sheik of the camel tribe under Bill’s care; Rajah, the LIVES BY UNLAWFUL Means | Bengal tiger, and all the furred and feathered boarders in Bill Snyder's boarding house for beasts up by the old Arsenal in the Park. To-morrow night @ lot of Bill's fe oo paint brush, Old Smiles fooled him; she broke loose. ‘Then Bill did some fancy dodging, with that wicked forward turret just Yes, Bill’s going to quit his job—]a few Inches from his coat-tails after all these years, Bill's going to}¢very minute. He managed to climb |quit his job as head keeper of the|* ladder; Old Smiles charged the | ladder and Bill came down on the Central Park Zoo and retire to his back. Old Smiles got such @ three-acre farm near White Plains) scare she sulked in a corner and per- }to spend the rest of his life his | mitted Bill to sneak out of the cage. eaye—“just’ thinking it over,” as] On another occasion Head Keeper Bill puts it Suyder and three men tried to get And a great many things Bill Sny-|4 strangle hold on a python up in | der will have to think about when the Bronx Zoo—it was necessary to his mind is off the bottle-ralsing of |®stract a gumboil from the south: lion cubs and the temperamenta! di-|¢4st corner of William HI. Python’ does of a lady camel. Not many of|®xpansive mouth. Blankets were the city’s employees have had the|thrown over Mr, Python's compan: experiences Bill Snyder has enjoyed fons to keep them still, then Bill THE PHYSICALLY FRAIL TYPE. HE physically frail individual is frafl because the brain and nervous system are so highly developed that they require a great deal of| his vitality and endurance to nourish them and to sustain their ctivities. The result is that mental powers grow and thrive at the ex- yense of physical. Such people have large heads in proportion to their bodies. Their heads also are inclined to be very much larger above the ears and in the Bovd NC LaAsieD AY reighborhood of the forehead and temples than at the jaw and at the nape MANVAL LABOR vf the neck. This gives their heads a rather top-heavy effect—like a pear with the small end down—and their faces a triangular shape. Their jaws are usually fine and slender, and their chins not particularly broad > and strong. NY Such people have very fine hair and fine skin, Their nerves are| ensitive and close to the surface. Their entire build of body is delicate! ON : | dinner, because Bill's retiring after] ind slender. Their hands and feet also are usually delicately and slen- as thirty-two years with the Zoo. derly fashioned; their shoulders are narrow and oftentimes sloping. Ii| is folly to talk of building up rugged, muscular and bony systems means of strenuous exercise in people t thus endowed. Much, of course, can be done to strengthen and rm J eae ies harden the muscles, but they are| “> even a poet. The boy who Is deeply interested in battles and (rail physically, by nature, and C8) Agnting may be far better adapted vever be anything else. to the profession of historian than People with this type of organiza- to the trade of soldier. The boy who ‘ion are not inclined to be skilful] kes to build houses and factories with their fingers. They do not care in his play, and seems to be deeply interested in the construction of jor physical work of any kind; they | caigces, may not be fitted to become do not take an interest in ft, there-| contractor or a draughtsman. fore cannot do it well. Properly) If he is of this intellectual type trained, men and women of this|he is far more likely to become an FINE SLENDER JAWS. “AA friends are giving him a going-away IF INTERESTED WW ANIMALS architect, or, perhaps, to idealize | DONT Mane Nim A BA clea Uapiatad in his thirty-five years of experience | and his these assistants lad what te Geer take theip. SIn0es 28 Fe DTC ene on Kp honest Let Him GE A VETERINARIAN, with creatures who don't speak our| Popularly known as “violent hands ions, They are teachers, preachers!) i sae to i pesane las seo rita | tanguage aie coursaa feet of slnons ey v sides FRAIL TYP, | Clawed by Mons and bitten by silient as a watch spring an lawyers, educators, reformers, inven-| o¢ THE TYPE | i 3 ce bi . Perea, Scine easeedinia home planning @nd SHOULD Have jem; chased by a rhinoceros whom | strong as a steel coil ore, aul ‘s , ‘oration. The boy of this A GENERAL Old Bill considered a bosom friend- Snyder didn’t have a firm enough Among those of mediocre abilities) izpe who ip his youth seems to} x EDUCATION) Jah, that was sad ingratitude for| stip on the southern extenston of ve find clerks, secretaries, accoun-| ‘#ke ® particular interest in hors | you!—tossed skyward by an ele-|the python, Result: in an instant . cattle, do; 4 ; ants, salesmen, window trimmers,| 14+ nce be i Ae animals, ma phant who had “gone must; hissed | tree vicious bands of muscular mot- verti and others searily be best qualified for} at by snakes with no proper concep: | tled body were colled about Snyder's ent Bndbea lg © stock breeder or @ dajryman.| tion of manners, Well, those are a Bill grunted, “Stretch vorking along similar mental line8-| Possibly he should become paces The boys stretched and When such people are not trained |inarian or even a physician and aur. tried to shut off the serpents wind i few samples of life as Bill Snyder ad educated they are misfits @l|geon, Or his bent may be tertral Gor bea ths IN has known !t. See him personally yays, because they do not have op-| direction of sctence, so that he! i Caen’ ¥ SwoULD some time and he'll be glad to dis-| Friend Python, meanwhile, was a 4 tha _ smiuis:|NOt inactive. He tried to throw an: im IN INVEN play all the wares in his reminis: | 9 vortunities to use to thelr fullest) makes a name as a Saiisfaites | BECOME A EN TOR, A da aay becca A Seo in He Umes: BATTLES . Bhke ehOb other loop around Bill's middle; to boop tage paging thd Mahle eee A nahn | é 3 | Bill was born to knowledge of the | Have done fo would be to write vats with which they have beep en-| thing for people of this tea ea | eee eee cere lcurtous ways of horned and clawed | Bill's obituary at once, But after a cowed, for parents having children of th ant a y anleata da Gorn s things, in @ way of speaking. His|fve-minute fight—the details of The first class of misfits ts com-| type ts to get it firmly fixed in their tter a P, 2 father had a farm up near White|‘ Sich make Old Bill shudder even EG dns vho-ors 100 (74ll.2et lands, one tor Gh ee te ers O or | ichar ie | ear Plains and used to take in winter | to-day-the assistants managed to Mysical labor and who are not Well) not fitted for hard physical work. | ed to take their pl — \boarders from Barnum & Bailey’s|“9Wind the pretzel convolutions nough educated to ¢ their place*| The next important thing, of course, ay 5 . pee ea Shin, winter quarters at Bridgeport. Lions from about Bill and he lived to yank pong clerical or professional lis to secure « broad and compliers In Which Is Indicated the Folly of Making Patriotic Sacrifices by Proxy, for {and leopards and such, So,naturally,|that python's gumboll out—with orkers, These amaevenaisy do not! education along general lines, if It Puts the Burden of Suffering on the Other People and Gains Nothing when Bill was old enough to have| Perhaps a kind word thrown in for ike hard, manual work; they can-| there is any striking and o * : ?) orien 7 , t good measure. ss artt ~ 2 his first pair of, red-top boots he ran | ot do it well; they are outclassed !n/| talent along any one finan ae for the Self Denying Patriot pager niger ie th ree Starmpe and ere and joined the Big Top. ‘ | Blood poison is among the by- . They do not hold any postion! education ts moro than likely to Pink Ribbons, and Besides It’s Mighty Tough on the Pet Canary and the Ho travelled with the circus for| products of Snyder's acquatntance ong; they are frequently wae bring it out and to cause {t to seek Fan-Tailed Goldfish. several years, being advanced to the | with animals; he got it from a lion's loyed, and they are often compelled | further development. exalted state of “chief bull man”—|scratch. Broken bones. 99 a | yes, a few, y live by thelr wits. As @ gen! In case there i no such distinct!| BY ARTHUR ae ) BAER. that being curator of the elephants. |DBut withal, Bill Snyder loves the ral rule, those in this class are! predilection manifested, further and| Copsright, 1918, ty the Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World world knows the yellow peril 1s situated right between the Bullshevikt | This promotion came after Bill had | dumb brutes thousands come to ell equipped intellectually by na-| more minute study of the individual | © MISS MINNIE WURFFER, Jazzville | eshoulderblades. |corralled the Sacred White Elephant | gawk at—loves ‘em and has a secret % ire, and would have responded) will have to be made in order to de- Dear Nicce; hy kind letter was received by the kind parcel - of Slam when that roving beast | sympathy for their dull lives behind i A ‘plendidly to educative efforts {f/ termine just what Kind of intel-| post. My glee at recetving thy epistle way slightly dented by the Roar of Crown Prince's big guns was heard fifty miles away, or not | jumped the reservation somewhere | bars or at the end of steel tethers, \ “Nagy had been given an opportunity.| lectual work will give him the best| gag th teeven coat eae tall é pelle quite far enough for the Crown Prince to hear it, out in Missourt, Young Bill went! Old Bill drove hard bargains with Vedple of this class lack physical] opportuntties for success and happi-| nt “Mat It Srrived’ postage Sap, FOOD SOO, His Shas See Hees Gnet 5 - out with nothing but his “bull stick” |elrcuses and other menageries: for ourage. They shrink from hard-|ness, Even in the want of aiah | ficed the luxury of smearing stamps on letters for the duration of the Olasinnatl: woman Gets divoros because husband wrote a patriotic and brought the Siamese runaway | | baby lions, juvenile hippopotam! and hip and will do almost anything to/c careful analysts it is, neverthe-| Wal ‘Ti# @ noble sacrifice, and thee wilt win the war if (ue patience of song entitled, “When the War Is Over, Sophie, We'll AU Go Home and | pack to the circus, single handed, | stmilar by-products of Ife seape physical suffering. It 1s this|tess, true that an individual of this| thy friends holds out Ta ests jiaetee Sy When the opportunity to become} Somebody going to start a hippo- ck of coltrage, as well as thelr in-| type, who hae no marked { keeper of the animals in Central| potamus ranch? Well, he’ * nelination | Thee also states that thee art conserving on food by giving thy pet per ench ell, he'd better Ability to make s decent living out] toward any one form of mental col oan tut walt norton coe Art cons VINE D8 Sod: BY FIVINE aD) By PROOF ENOUGH. NO BOLSHEVIK, Park Zoo presented itself Bill shook|ask Bill about it first, BI, he of their hands and muscles, that/tivity is always far better placed, | sacrifice on thy part, Now if ¢ Ceicme ing Sotewias gaat a WOMAN owning a house | HEY had been married three|off the lure of the sawdust and {n-| knows. You've got to know the | eads them in so many cases to un-|far happier and far more 1 ; ; dares eel geed Nal eialart ie bee Philadelphia before which a months, and were having their | stalled himself as the little friend of | mother, Bill would | re successful! fish to give up his aquarium on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I think that gung of workmen were en Aras cuarraiactthich ahawe that | awful means. lif trained to do any kind of Nake WP Sie lgoed snoeh ton nue cate pind oe bd perenne : quarre Bie h shows that/ the woolly things up In the Arse Recently Bill voiced some optn- The big important lesson is that! lectual work than if left untrained Fidentia va acted” THe Goole et eei aa a dared Rca TT Rit nedaranlo dint (ia weak anal cemeaeniens markenle couple hal’s shadow fons on what ought to be done to r se could have lamped thy uncle's agony he himsel nuch interested in the > 1] ividently,” she sa cily, R id | elie 1 he individual of this type never| and compelled to try to earn his own) away from threeper ) pay the postage due on thy kind letter, thou | which is the foreman?" she asked of t that vou have married ve. the | Right then and there Bill Snyder | improve the surroundings of his ani- mw ed ving by the use o: ony welt t 1 “ 4 . g, burly Celt. A proud smile came | ste voc: “0 became a fixture with al ew York| mal colony. Said he 1 ught to attempt to do any kind of} living by th f his bones and, wouldst deny thyself the pleasure of sacrificing stamps, It seemeth to |@ big, bu r p is not irrevocable, however. If | f .with all New York | mal col i work in which success depends upon! muscles | me that thou art much Ike other folks, who Ike to do their sacrificing {to the countenance of that individual] you care to be released from your|City edito Any dull day they| “This zoo has such a hold on the f whysical effort. Whatever talents) ———— | Gy prozy, Thy uncle, thy cacary and thy Japanese fantail seem to |@4 be replied: “Ol am, mum,’ bonds — could say, “Go up and see Bill Sny-| people it 1s high time it is improved | @ may have will express themselves) An bt : mee tahagiied wi thy oultering : ce “Heally?” continued the lady, “0! Naw," he interrupted, impatiently. |der and get a story.” And the re-|and brought up to date. We've got aD Always best in an intellectual way. n lonest Thief. | ~~ Thopeth that t! ng eies i vacuiVathva wind daiianierom thee thee kit? prove it vejoined the) “I'm no ninety day recruit. I enlisted | porter always brought one back, | to keep carpenters busy all the time i ope \© next time I recelveth a kind lette m thee tha hes “i orer| ¢ wa arg ° ti It may be art, it may be music, ft T a New York recreation centre! thes wilt have pasteth a kind threeponse stanip in the kind right Ae Insnman ‘Then ning: (0 8 labor v the term of the war. even if he and Bill had to put thelr | patching up and enlarging things. nay be machinery, it may be buel- & teacher once noticed a little ¢ that kind a A pps fy he Pe Meade yn [ney Lg ah ad Kelly, ye She couldn't think of any retort heads together and think hard. Since you ask me, T don't want to ness, it may be mining or agricul-| boy sitting on a bench and pandicey Accs ah hers clas oe oe Lapras eeduaned gaa a ngled ie ees Maeeeys ie maintalien: & gia silenc Not that Bill ever told an un-|advocate any wholesale expendi ure, {t may be any one or many) P0!ding in hiy hand a largo sandwich | ads isaa aaatt judae ite alee ACRE ISAS RAE iia | “OVER HERE.” a See truth—perish the thought! Even his’ tures, but it strikes me about $100, i ther active pursuits which have also|°N*sting of bread, ham and in| ‘at : cael Apt radiated id Ae ERORAT OF ENO Ore ABBREVIATED. | story of the Japanese dancing mouse | 000 would do a lot toward precy y \ purely intellectual side, In hig) Pickles, From tine to time the little | i have sd the new pink ribbon thee requested, as 1 have OSPEPH LELTER, President of th that got drunk on the fumes of a| things in shape a Bhi. J i h hi ind natorall tapas boy would lift up a corner of the top| decided to sacrifice pink ribbons for the duration of the war, Closing, } Army League, said in a Chicago ENRY'S father was a_ golf| are rehupor ety r fier a Hie ben Meh around here, arly youth his m A m A Tan|iayer of the sandwich, take out a| wilt remind theo that the fool followeth his shadow, while tho wise man |S address enthusiast; thorefore Henry ened dele ii N sop 1 that much we could grad- to the more poleria rr estation | amail ahred of ham or a minute piece| compelleth his shadow to follow him. He who spendeth 10 cents trying “speculation in the food of the peo knew all about the game, One| #7oUnd was ag sober tru . The] ually replace the present wooden t his talents, But with properlo¢ duit pickie, put tt In bie mouth, | to eave e dime ts like the fool who giveth the porcupine a friendiy pat |Pl@ May be pardonable In times of| time he was asked: “Henry, why ia|0dd thing was, Bill Snyder rarely| shacks with brick and concrete raining and given the proper oppor-|and arrange the sandwich exactly as) 4 receiveth wounds for his trouble, The porcupine knoweth not fri peace, but in war time tt 1s hetnous.| it that men that play golf always yell | cared to talk at length about some} buildings and get a fire-proof zoo tunities, he will always gravitate|it had been before. He did thi bs Ok SOUS RAS ROSES oweth not sriend “After the Ailies' victory, the down-| ‘fore’ instead of ‘look out’ or some| of his own vivid experiences. while walka ahait it. 4 many, | fron foe, A ri re about it. Some day a «urely to the mental and intellectual | many times, until finally, opening th ‘0 fall of the Hohenzol sand Haps 1 thing Henry thought for a| Once—t was in 1912—Bill wanted | lot of these noo i h ig She Forget not vice and never carry a bundle by the st poor dumb brutes are F Rees ne tin heat wich for another bite, he discov. 5 er oa ’ y ’ buree, and t vugura of a per nd before an inspiration came|to put son t's foot off on the | going to a quick finish in a blaze H ihe boy who ts interested to ma:| ered with evide t disappointment that 1 father's sid’ i. ; manent workt peace, | can tmagtt from look his young sister, who| hide of Old the rhino, to’ with the present ancient equipment hinery may become an inventor or |‘? filing was en irely gone. POOK RICHARD JI ttle boy + t father, a rich was diligently getting her arithmetic.| keep her complexion perfect and| and housing. Anyway, why should A j he may become @ playwright or an] say tne teschans fot itt Teadoret”” feo profites a You see" he replied, “it takes t0% treo from cracks. Ho and his men they have decent quarters? ree a th A “Daddy, wha you do in thel long ell ‘toot-toot, a arrers ; author. The boy who is interested)” yeadore looked up with large, seri- {SQUIBELETTES\ great ot aa : 10k nao much like ‘two-two' that | ‘oust they'd securely roped the| worth it, bless their soulr.” re J in plants and flowers may pecom? 4| ous eyes and answered, laconically, ‘ “My son, I did the people, "—De-| they Just add them together and ee horned frie from outside the| Which, after all, shows where O18 petasist or # naturalist, or, per-|Tain't mine,"—Wverybody’s. | | ‘The Bullsbeviki claim there ts yellow Feril in Siberia when all the trol, Free Prova,” tour, "—Lverybody’s Magazine, cage and Bill went inside with big! pin Snyder's heart lies,