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small children curled up for the night. Hopeless situation. The mothers were so young and obviously at the edge of desperation. We gave 3 of them some money, but could not even make a dent in their misery.

[[underlined]] Monday, April 8. [[/underlined]]
Awake early to a gray sky, almost empty beach, and haze over the bay. Tom didn't feel like jogging so we went to breakfast before 8:00. Afterwards took our time about things, watched a new batch of birds skim the waves and dive for fish. Probably boobies, although they seem to have white bills. Yesterday's Man O'War birds are gone and these have appeared for the first time. About 10 we decided to go out shopping for tourmaline. Francilino Harto appears to have gone out of business, it did not appear to be appropriate to ask America yesterday about jewelers (of all things). As we left the clinic building yesterday she turned my diamond toward my palm and cautioned me not to display it. She wore only very tiny diamond studs, saying "they" would think they were costume jewelry. So, not knowing of any joalherias of that class, we decided to take the proffered tour of H. Stern. Walked to Stern at the Copa Palace and they gave us vouchers for a private car to the Stern headquarters at Ipanema. We were driven to the entrance and ushered into the building, escorted to the 3rd floor and given earphones to tour the area and observe

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details of mining stones, cutting, polishing, and setting. A 12-minute lecture. Then, after being assured by the audio tape that we were under no pressure whatever to buy anything, we were escorted to a sales area and assigned to Table No. 8 with Julia Lee (Chinese) presiding. She asked if there was anything special we would like to see. I said cat's eye tourmaline. She was taken aback. She said she could show us some but mainly mounted in men's rings. She added that there is little demand for it -- not fashionable -- and is really caused by a defect in the tourmaline. She put in an order and a tray that included some cat's eyes was delivered -- plus two other trays. All of the "eyes" were indeed in men's rings, all of them massive and in execrable taste, I thought. There was one nice rubellite which might have interested me, but it was in a huge, steel (?) (probably white gold) mount with a row of diamonds on one side. Julia decided that, since I asked for an off-beat stone, I might like others, so the other trays included rings with large slices of orangy irridescent ammonite (very popular now); some Kunzite, and a few other things. I then broached the subject of replacing the garnet in mother's ring with an imperial topaz. She brightened up, ordered more trays, and after considerable search, found one the right size & fair color. It was only $300 or so & Tom was ready to close a deal. We sent it out to the workshop to see if the fit really was O.K. and what it would cost to remount and replace as last time. It was reported a good fit and