The vogue for lizard skin shoes for women has became so widespread in Paris and London that the Bengal Forestry Department is becoming quite perturbed. It fears that the wholesale slaughter of lizards this vogue involves may lead to x dangerous increase in the mum ber of venomous snakes in the forests of India, The lizards where skins make such attractive shoes: fave in the habit of eating—younst without, their aid M from yean aleut ten years:
when a tea planter in Ceylon, fascinated by the lizards that he noticed on his estates, killed some, fof them and sent the' shing to hi brother in London. The latter had them made into shoes and gave them to some of his women friends. became interested
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