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Besides a great abundance of snow and ice Connecticut has very little to offer in the winter time. From henceforth, however, it will have even less, for Barnum's elephants, giraffes, monkeys--in fact his entire flora and fauna--are migrating to Florida, there to remain until time for the great spring trek.
There is something unfair about the proposition. Florida has a climate, it has bathing beauties, palm trees, the cocoanut grove--many things which Connecticut has not. In Florida one may meet Jimmy Walker in a bathing suit. Billie Burke in a house-apron, movie stars in Rolls-Royces--none of which graces the Connecticut landscape. And now to be deprived of the hibernating elephants--it appears there is no justice.
If elephants must go south why not take them to Georgia where there is little to amuse the population except an occasional lynching? That Georgia should get them is but another example of the supreme unfitness of things. Nor, it might be added, is Coral Gables any place for a self-respecting hyena. If P. T. Barnum were alive he would realize that there is a place for all things--and that in its present condition Florida is no place for a menagerie.
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