Ya lo dijo el gran filósofo Aristóteles que el hombre es un " animal político " para sí mismo. Su tendencia natural ha sido humanizar todo comportamiento animal y os preguntaréis que tiene esto que ver con el mundo del patín, pues aquí os vamos a mostrar un matíz. En la red podemos encontrar noticias de lo más curioso y Fernando me facilitó esta imagen y la información del hecho.
Rastreando una señora en su arbol genealógico, se encontró con que un antepasado suyo -que debía ser feriante o algo así- se dedicaba a ir de pueblo en pueblo presentando su espectáculo que incluía ¡un oso que patinaba!. Los periódicos de la época lo explicaban en un artículo de 1 de enenro de 1911 Greensburg [Pennsylvania] Morning Review en Westmoreland County, procedente de los archivos de Pennsylvania, lo explicaban en los siguientes términos:" Skating Bear A Wonder
Alice Teddy draws record breaking crowd at the big rink, will be here all week - one of the world's animal wonders.
Amid the enthusiastic applause of fully two thousand people, Alice Teddy, the wonderful skating bear, made her initial appearance and performance at The Big Rink carnival last night.
To say that this wonderful skating bear is one of the most unique animal wonders of the world is merely stating a fact and voicing the verdict of two thousand people who saw her performance last night. Following is Alice Teddy's history.
Alice Teddy, the wonderful roller skating cinnamon bear appearing here this week, was a tiny baby bear when captured in Oregon. Geo. B. Crapsy, her present owner, who also made the capture, says that at the time little Alice weighed four pounds. Today Alice is past two years old and weighs 215 pounds.
When Mr. Crapsy returned home to Merrill, Wis., he brought Alice along. Her remarkable intelligence prompted hi2m to spend his spare time in teaching Alice tricks. She readily learned to wear shoes, clothes, to walk upright and finally, after months of hard practice, to skate on ball-bearing rollers. Alice is the only bear in the world skating and dancing on skates ".
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