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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-22
shopping Tour to BIame.


Once there was a man whose wife be-
lieved she could teach him TO shop, says
the Chicago News. One day she took him
shopping with her. AS they had only to ex-
change box of wire hsirpins, buy a
dozen needles, select a new bonnet for
the baby and match piece OF insertion,
they got home almost at dusk.
They had spent half an hour on the
hairpins which needed to be both crinkled
and Invisible, two hours selecting a dozen
needles Of carefully assorted sizes, one
hour deciding what kind OF andwiches
they should have for lunch, FIVE minutes
lunching, three hours and eight minutes
settling on one OF two patterns for the
bonnet and one hour and forty minutes
OF solid hurry matching the insertion.
When they arrived home the husband
felt as If his legs were worn OFF to the
knees and as IL the word tired" had
taken on about ten new meanings for
him.
The wife was a bit tagged. but she
boosted that she had saved cents on
the insertion by going to the eleventh
store to look for Just what she wanted
Also, she was glowing with a sense Of
duty done, in that she had taught her hus-
band TO shop.
Next day she wanted some carpet tacks,
three yards OF silesia and two boxes OF
toilet powder.
So she tied three strings around three
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-22
vacntion and E1ercise.

DR.. Edward Wallace Lee. formerly OF
Omaha, in an Interview in the New York
Sun, discussed the need Of moderate exer-
else by people on a vacation.
walking may be called the universal ex-
ercise," the doctor began. ut Is certainly
the most healthful know of, and woman
who doesn't improve in health by taking a
judicious amount of this sort of exercise
every day, and who can't enjoy walking
has something radically wrong with her
Hammocks have their uses, but 1 would
not advise a woman who is in normal con-
dition, no matter how tired she may be, to
spend most Of her vacation in one whether
her vacation lasts only two weeks or two
months, or longer.
persons who don't walk any during their
vacation will undoubtedly gain flesh or
rather, 1 should say fat but they won't
gain muscle and strength, and every woman
ought to cultivate muscle instead OF fat II
most women would walk Systematically
every day, winter and summer, they would
be better on.
Walking promotes every normal func-
ton, the function Of respiration in partlc-
ular. The main benefit some persons derive
from a sea voyage is not due, as they i'm
agine, to inhaling big doses Of pure air, but
to the circumstance that they walk the deck
so much.
Lying in a hammock one can breathe
quantities OF fresh air, but during a brisk
walk, in addition to breathing fresh air,
perspiration is started which helps eliminate
effete material. The trouble is that some
people when they start in to walk for health
while on an outing are apt to overdo IT,
"a woman entirely unaccustomed to the
exercise may accompany someone who can
easily do two or three miles without get
ting tired, and in trying to keep up with
her companion will come back used up and
disinclined TO repeat the attempt.
ITO my mind one Of the best health rules
for vacation time Is this: Walk a BIT every
day, but never walk to the point of ex-
treme fatigue.
''At the start II more than half a mile
makes one feel tired. don't walk a step
further than half mile. The next day the
walk will probably be extended a trife
further and the day following a trihe
further than that There lie no hard and
fast rule which holds good in cases Of this
sort
For a woman who seldom or never, when
in the city, walks more than one mile at
stretch to undertake to go up and down
mountain several thousand feet high as
soon as she strikes the country is exceed
ingly unwise. Better let her train up to the
mountain by easy stages"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-22
mol Was There Last Year

am going soon for a 30-day trip
via "The Cool Northern Route" The
WABASH offers about half fare to
points in Canada, New England, etc.
They give you choice of route to Chi
cago, thence via Detroit, Niagara
Falls, including lake and river trips,
and all that sort. They have a book
let giving description of great many
trips. Get one and think it over, and
go along.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-22
A wOman's Invention.

"A woman" said a paper maker 'in-
vented blue paper. II was by accident that
she did II, though. Before her time all
paper was white.
she was the wife OF William tastes. one
OF the leading paper makers OF England in
the eighteenth century. In passing through
the paper plant one day she dropped a big
blue bag into a vat OF pulp. Eastes was a
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-22

- those who hOld advanced lneOFles
Of woman's rights. In an interview with
an English woman journalist the queen ex-
pressed her opinion in no uncertain terms.
II am absolutely opposed to any ex-
travagant theories OF what is called the
emancipation Of women" she said. "1n
whatever condition Of life a woman may
be placed her first duty is the negative
one Of not giving up the qualities that
distinguish her sex. Above all, she should
guard against developing the traits OF men.
A blending Of ancient reserve with mod
ern independence would give us the ideal
woman"
Her majesty believes in large families.
How else, she asks. Is a nation to progress
except through It's people7 A childless
family is Incomplete. There is a poetry
and pathos about childhood which appeal
to every right-minded woman. Most
women, though they may not be able to
put this idea into words, feel It. They
have the maternal instinct. Hence the
remoteness Of race suicide.
Women show their intellectually" she
continued, by rearing healthy and great
children, Just much they do by writ
ing books and painting pictures. The wife
who deliberately refuses to bring children
into the world must have something wrong
with her moral makeup. 1 am very pleased
to know that there is a movement in the
United States in favor Of large families,
and that the president has put himself upon
record as favoring them. European women
have begun to look to their sisters Of the
United States for light"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-22

LARLES DANA GIBSON is
whimsical as well as artistic, and
the subject OF this weeks article
is one OF his quaintest conceits.
Design for a bachelors wall
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-22

as much as we'd be able 20 get out Of them
in any other way"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-22
BETTER THAN SPANKING

Spanking does not cure children OF bed
wetting II II did there would be few chill
dren that would do IL. There Is a constitu-
tional cause for this. Mrs NJ Summers
home treatment 70 any mother She asks
no money. Write her today II your children
trouble you in this way. Don't blame the
child. The chances are Il can't help H.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-22
o,eep on Woman,s Duty.

lueen on WOman'a Duty.
JEEN 1iargherita Of Italy, who Is
said to be one Of the best author
tiles in Europe on the education
OF her sex. does not agree with
those who hold advanced theories
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-22
PETERMANS ROACH FOOD
A BOON TO HOUsEKEEPERs.

(quicksilver) - Bedbugs
take It up In the circula-
ton when going over
where II Is brushed on
lightly. It's invaluable
II brushed on beds when
apart, and on back Of
picture frames, holdings,
etc. Il will not rust or
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towers against enemies.
He is dying slowly but surely. The
world has no time for him now. He has
lived too long in the Castle of Indolence.
God gets angry with those who do not
try to progress. and sooner or later He
writes agains; their names, Dele" lie
has stretched forth His hand agains,
this wretched reptile, who has committed
the sin OF inaction. ana must earn the
wages of sin. which il death
My Tuatara. whose portrai, Is pre-
sented here. was hatched, bred, ana
reared On a speck of land called Ste
phens: Island, in Cooks Strait. which
separates the North Island of New Zea.
land from the South Island
There he spent his bapyhood; and when
he began to be.a big Sphenodon he hunt
ed. grSsshoppers. flies. spiders. beetles
and Similar small game with as much
enthusiasm and skill as any other mem.
-ber of the Tuatara community.
+ When not following the chase, he spent
most of his time basking in the gl 1rious
sunshine. sprawling. in shady pools,
drinking huge draughts of cold water, or
listening to the fierce winds that howl
through the Straits and huri themselves
upon his little island home.
He came to me from over the seas
in wooden box and j have made him
run and a hut to live in. The run is
melted over with wire netting TO protect
him against the dogs and cats. which
are his natural enemies. Day and night.
when not asleep, or wandering aimlessly
around, OF taking a bath in his trough,
which is always. kept filled with water,
he lies on the ground with his head
slightly elevated and his eyes directed
upward.
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.'Hvhen ], first went into business for
myself it astonished. me to find how
many women there were who considered
il smart to beat milliner, but; nothing
that women do in the way of business
rneanness or. underhandedness. is capable
of surprising me amy more said "a
woman miIliner.:
Look at this. for example" and she
exhibited check for ss5, filled cut in
a feminine hand. folding the name under
so that it could not be read, ''This. check
represents as deliberately mean a trans
action as could be imagined. and yet it is
a dodge that has been worked upon me
four or fve times by different women
since / started in business:
The woman whose name is on this
check is the wife OF prosperous man,
and she lives in a beautiful house. 1t
is wen knswn 10 tradespeople that her
husband lets her have all. the money that
any woman. even one with extravagant
tastes. could possibly need.
And Yet she is not above turning so
contemplate a trick as this. She came
here for the first time yesterday recog-
nized her at ence, was pleased to think
that / was going To have her for GUS
toner, and would have given her any
amount of credit she asked for. But she
didn't ask me for any credit. She picked
out two hatH that she liked, each of them
costing $45
Send them to my house this evening,
she said TO me. and l will return you a
check
We'll, that looked even better-she was
Esing to be fine new cash customer. it
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store. But I saw the hat on your head
at the opera that night She almost
went into Mysteries she was so angry
with me. and Of course, i lost her trade
But I didn't mind that, And, by the way.
few OF the millipers send any hats on
approval except co the very cream OF
their customers during horse show week
They long ago found out what poor
scheme that was.
"Milliners and dressniakers frequently
get badly stung, as the saying goes.
through the announcement In certain
newspapers Of purely fictitious marriage
engagements I was one Of the victims
last year. when certain theatrical and
gossipy publications more than limited at
an engagement between a show girl and
a very well-known New York man OF
great wealth.
The announcement bad hardly been
put forth before this young woman was
on her travels in a big motor car hired
for the occasion to visit the milliners and
mantua- makers, The rich man to whom
she was said to be engaged was travelling
abroad at the time, and so there was no
immediate denial Of the story.
"Milliners and dressmakers know what
Is going on in the circles to which they
cater. and read OF this engagement.
So. when the young women appeared Al
my place and got $500 and more worth
of hats, I was rather pleased. She Oh
tanned many thousands Of dollars worth
Of beautiful things all over New York On
the strength Of this engagement story
before il reached the young man whersl
he was travelling in the Orient fla
cabled an instant denial Of the story. bux
that was too late for the people who
let her have the goods. OF course. not
a cent could be got from the girl. She
simply stated that the engagement had
fallen through. IT was the first time
had been bitten in Just that way. III
think l may safely venture 70 ~ IL
will be the last
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offered rewards for specimens. A few
days before his departure from the colony.
in 1S43, he was fortunate enough 70 OBJ
tain Tuatara that had been caught on
a small island off the coast of the north
island. He took the specimen with him
and it was sent to the British Museum.
DIR. Gray. who classed it as distinct
genus of the family Agamidae, called it
Hatteria punctata. Later on it was dis
covered that the skull of a Tuatara had
been received al the museum of the Royal
College of Surgeons and that the generic
name of Sphenodon had been applied to
it, Sphenodon, therefore. it had to be
has remained.
Dr. Gunther found that 1t differs in
important structural characteristics from
every other known saurian. and that. as
the most bird-like of all reptiles. Claim
ing that it ranks higher than family
he placed it in distinct order of reptiles
and he named that order Rhynchocephalia
(snout- headed).
Later on the Tuatara became better
known to the world.
In December 1851. some officers of the
Fifty-e eighth Imperial Regiment, which
was then stationed in New Zealand, Wis
tied Karewa Island, in the Bay of Plenty
and in one hour collected no fewer than
forty tuataras of all sizes. up to nearly
two feet long.
My Tuatara, 1 may state here, is exactly
II inches from the tip of his nose to the
tip of his tail. His head is 8 IA inches.
his body is 6 IA inches and his tail IL
inches.
At that time Karewa Island was swarm
ing with a small lizard called "Moko-
moko'' by the Maoris and Lygosoma moco
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He eats so little that am sometimes
afraid that ne will die OF starvation. 1t
is his custom TO proclaim a fast at least
once year. He observes il with a strict
ness that could not haze been surpassed
by the fasting prophets of old. ! be-
lieve tlia. If the subjects condition and
other circumstances are taken into con-
sideration there is no record of fasting
90 be compared with my Tuatara s.
For weeks together he absolutely alb
stains from food of any kind, but he is
never fatter. brighter. healthier and hap
pier than when these fasts are being
observed
have never heard him utter more
than one word. That word he has used
on only two or three occasions, when he
thought he was going to be hurt. 1t is
Ugh. 1t sounds like an exclamation
of disgust but is an expression of alarm.
IT seems TO come from the very pit of
his stomach and when he utters it he
gives rise to a suggestion that he is
trying to mix deep groan with a hollow
croak. Otherwise he is as silent as the
grave.
The first Tuatara brought under the
notice of the publicswas found on Soames
Island, in Wellington harbor. New Zea-
land, in 1912. Previous to that, however,
stories had been told by missionaries and
other travellers of a remarkable reptile
The Maoris knew of the Tuatara and
had fairly close acquaintanceship with
it, although they looked upon it as
very uncanny beast and a thing to be
lar name.
days of colonization, was told OF the ex-
stence of a large lizard. He looked for
it in places where it had been seen and
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by scientists. Some of these were also
collected and placed in the box with the
Tuataras. At the end of the voyage to
the mainland it was found that the little
lizards had met with the fate that befell
the foolish young lady of Riga, who went
for ride on a tiger. There was abso
lutely nothing left of them except the
horny tips of their tails, which are not
worth eating.
The same thing happened on another
occasion, when about twenty little lizards
were put in the same box as two Tuataras
1t was noted that the little fellows be-
came fewer in number every day, until
only six remained. They were almost
paralyzed with fear, and whenever the
Tuataras moved the poor little creatures
crouched down and tried to hide them
selves under some dry leaves in the box.
A Tuatara was caught in the very act
of eating one of them. beginning at the
head and rejecting about an inch. of the
tail.
Tuataras have been known. to fight
among themselves with great ferocity.
tearing at each others skin until blood
flowed freely. They must be handled with
care, as, when in a bad temper, they give
a nasty bite. A gentleman in Auckland
was bitten by a female Tuatara he was
lifting up to show a friend He grasped
the reptile by the body, and, with a quick
movement of her head, she nipped a piece
off his thumb.
In their native state Tuataras live in
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"'Well,' she said then, L will pay you
the $50 now and then won't you let me
have the bill receipted in full just to show
him? And I'll send you the remainder of
the amount in a couple of weeks
81 didn't like the sound of this, either,
naturally enough, since I've been fooled
so often by these lodges.
No said /; I will do this: You
pay me the $50 now and I shall let you
have the bill receipted in full if you will
let me have your personal note for the re-
naming $70
.'She agreed and / took her $50 and
handed her. the bill for $120 receipted in
full Then / sat down to make out the
personal note for the remaining $40 for
her to sign. when she calmly turned and
walked out Of the place. She was stepping
into her automobile before l had chance
to realize what was happening. There
would have been no use in my flying out
after her, especially when the store was
full of people, and so l simply let her go,
with a piece of paper showing that she
had paid me full s120 when she had
really only given me $50 on account.
That's another one that. think. it would
be pretty hard to match for meanness
Last fall woman whom j knew to be
perfectly good, so far as what we call
the blue book showed. came to my place
for the first time and selected three very
expensive hats. One of them cost $3.50.
the second sS5 and the third $780,
..She gave a gasp when l told her the
aggregate cost of the three hats she had
picked out.
".Oh, know that my husband would
never agree to that bill in the wide
world she said.
But do you need all three of the hats
at the same timer j asked her. Per-
haps if you took them separately, at short
intervals. and he received the three
separate bills he would
No she interrupted, well do it this
way: Make out the total bill for the
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denial. or. worse, come storming down
here himself and accuse me of no end of
things, and i know better than to do any
thing of the sort. SO / simply pocketed
my 500 loss and let it go at. that.
Women who. do not belong to the
wealthy class, but who are regular GUS
toners, do just as mean things on a
smaller scale. 1t is no uncommon thing
for a woman of this class who is dis
satisfied with her stock of hats to come
down here and pick out, say, pretty
evening hat.
.I'll take ii il my husband likes it,
she says, Send it up, and I'll show it
to him this evening. and if he approves
of il, I'll take it,
Then she wears it to the theater, or
to party, and returns it in the morning.
with a note to the effect that her hus-
band doesn't like the hat. How do we
know that she has worn the hat? Why,
by the hatpin marks in it. bless your
simple heart There are not hatpin jabs
in hat when 1t is sent out os milliner's
establishment, for the pins are not used
in trying on hats.
I'VE don't often say anything in
case of this sort. 1t isn't good policy
But If one woman repeats the trick two
or three times then. of course. we have
to say something to her ABOUT it. and in
almost every case she flares up and de-
clares with all the solemnness in the
world that she wouldn't think of doing
such thing. and then quits the estab-
lishment.
"One night at the opera 1 saw six of
my hats on the heads of women-hats
that had been sent TO them ON their hus-
bands approval that is to say. They
were all expensive hats, too. Well every
blessed one OF those hats came back on
the following morning, accompanied by
notes to the effect that their husbands
didn't like them To one Of those women
she had done the trick several times be-
fore-I said, the next time she visited the
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seemed
Il sent the two hats to her. together
with a receipted bill for the fun amount.
$50. She gave my delivery man this
check for s45. She handed the man this
check in a sealed envelope, took the hats
and the receipted bill for $50, and there
you are. had had this thing, as 1 say,
worked upon me before, but / could not
think IT possible that this woman would
do it, / thought she must have made
some mistake. So l went up to see her
this forenoon. 1 explained the situation to
her. but she simply would not listen to me
lin fact, boldly told me that was try
ing to cheat her, and all but showed me
the door. That ends the transaction |
am s45 out.
There is no way to guard against such
meanness as that. When the dodge was
first worked upon me, about two years
ago, 1 was so angry that instructed my
delivery man not to accept any more
money or checks placed in sealed en-
velopes, but to open the envelope and
examine the contents before giving up the
receipted bill. He did this in a couple of
cases where regular womep customers
gave him checks in sealed envelopes. and
found everything all right. The women
became very angry over what they called
his impertinence and withdrew their pa
tronage from me, so had to instruct him
not to open the envelopes any more,
This woman whose check have in my
hand gets two hats for the price of one,
and of course she will not come back to
my place any more. She will no doubt
work the same game upon other milliners
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three hats an even $45O-he isn't really
stingy, but he thinks that even $50 for
a hat is a frightful price. And I'll pay
YOU the difference now and he'll never
know about it-I must have those three
hats
$50 we arranged il that way. She paid
me the difference s145. and the hats were
sent to her. The bill followed month
or so later and her husbands check for
the $3.50 promptly came back. About three
days after receiving her husbands check
the woman got out of her carriage and
came in to me.
~ am so embarrassed she said
Hastily. L am to do a little shopping
and I've left both my pocketbook and
my checkbook at home, and 1 haven't the
time to drive down to my husbands
Office. I'd be so obliged if you'd let me
have-oh, 500 say, until tomorrow and 1
will drop by and let you have it back
or, better, I'll send you a check this
evening"
why, certainly / would. I let her
have the 800 without a thought of any
wrong intent on her part But she didn't [
drop by the next day nor did she send
me any check for the 800 loan, and it
wasn't long before / became reduced TO
the belief that she had deliberately
chiseled me out of that hundred just be-
cause it seemed so easy and simple for
her to do it. She has bought her mil
linery elsewhere since then. and I've
found out that she has told everybody
that 1 overcharged her frightfully, but
that she found out way to get even
with me- The last part of her assertion
is perfectly true.
II have no way to get the hundred
from her. OF course, l have absolutely
nothing to show for having loaned it to
her I could write a statement of the
transaction to her husband if 1 were fool
ish enough to do tnat, but 1 m not He'd
simply send me back flaming letter of