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December 28, 1914 BABY LION GIVEN AS CHRISTMAS PRESENT Freaks in Christmas presents were even more numerous than ever this year in New York, but few recipients were able to boast of something so unusual as a baby lion. One of the cosmopolitans who frequent the Cafe des Beaux Arts, and is a friend of its proprietor, Mr. Louis Bustanoby, and Mrs. Bustanoby, received from Africa a few days ago, a baby lion. He gave it to Mrs. Bustanoby for a Christmas present. She naturally was delighted. The kittenish thing was playful and affectionate and was so much fun - for a little while. But the baby lion did not last in the Bustanoby household through Christmas day. Lion kittens are not among the established furnishing or garnishment ideals of a New York apartment. They make friends with the bearskin rugs, try to bite the animals in pictures on the wall, and regard jumping on the piano with claws stretched, so that they may not fall, as delightful sport. Mrs. Bustanoby's lion lasted as a companion about three hours. Now he is among friends in a Long Island private menagerie, where probably he is much happier. The Bustanoby apartment is beginning to look the same as before his arrival. |
