Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-07-16
HOW TO CHARM SNAKES.
1t Is Very simple, but 1t Is Not Likely That
You VIII Try H-Taik with
Woman tharmcr.

There are in New York says the Com
morcial Advertiser, several Young women
who make a business of training boa CON
SirlciOrS and hypnuti2ing Cobras for the
amusement of a curious public.
Snake charming is one of the queereSt
occupations open to women. but essentially
women have had monopoly of the busi-
ness from the ancient days of Eden to
these modern dime museum times. There
is mysterious idea in the public mind
occult power, or some understanding Of
sSsrpents' ways and proelivites, to ha4die
Without moral moral injury, but have ave- Sue sue.
cessful snake charmer's word for ii that
strong neryGs and earsfninSsss G9}nstntf ,dl
that anyone can charm snakes
ThS nae wiS sh9rme r,da in IKE 9nestio9 resea Is
edge Of Enaiish She knows ali there is
other d,nizcns of the jungle, for that
matter, for she has tanned tigers, too, in a
circus But. as for snakes stupid. she
says, with a contemptuous toss Of her
proycrb but she asserts that it is an eX-
Only" she adds with an ingenious Of
fort 10 modify the bitterness of The dis,
her white arms and shows y series of ugly
little scars When ] am IN, not careful
Indeed an the women in the audience
are nervous. too, and haye shvcrs and
the shake charmcr ties herself up In the
folds of tn" huge scaly monsters and the
GNll-eNel heads KISS her PINK ShONlutrS
playfully But behind the scenes snake
charming Is another matter. 1t is plain
business The boxes in which their r, snake
IN corner. and unless you happen 10 see
through the covers Eq2na heNsr Kho" the
The snake charmer explains: Big snakes
have not poison They bite, but am care
M IRe blg Is NOT poison S"ehS' hurIs'
Mraldt ~
Shs shrugs her shoulders, smiles smile,
dnse'rtip and an repeats repeat noonchalaniily; "Nery-
Gus sometime" Ihen Win hsf lllte KEY
she opens me Dig Don Wnich Is luii , 3i
snakes; coil upon coil STRIPED mottled,
light, dark the largest larger around than
an athletes arm, the smallest or no bigger
girth than hahys wrist Sometimes
very quiet; sometimes so lively"' she COM
meuls, smiling, as wicked head rears "
self from the coil and pokes Its scaIy length
over the box side.
"GOOd snake, white snake"' she says, ems
cOurHgngly, lifting out monster and
scaly grewsome coldness.
! lift IL with both arms and as II SLIPS
away from coil to lazy sguirming rope
ing II with n mighty effort over my head,
for the python weighed all of fifty pounds;
The coil frightened around my wrist, and
the snake lifts its wicked head and looks at
me sleepily then gapes, wrigSles around
ana slips from my shoulder into It's box,
and curls into an insensate heap in the
blanket lifr another, and another, with
growing confidence, when suddenly the
the sardonic face Of a black vixen ] had
frra.Ded fooIishly
'"'Arb himmei,i' she exclaims. "rouch
that black snake-never. one moment
more ana il bites. | who am careful and
And then because II is a matter of in
taresf ~ know how a Woman should come
ii,,lnr bse h. IS1s me- how he cane 10 h. a
st',IIS' s,'aI,a' cbSr,par Sh, began NE as N hare.
hIE 49, - a b9r1 brsjness ana
PIX pr. iaIth flIaG sba gaye II m bt not
H. 'a," sbnW bmsincss. she would learn 70