VY 44 ! ~~ REMIND HIPT AZ" LEAST ONCE A WEER THAT YOU CONSIDER MINT AN ET TBEITELY CYNICAL SOUNG NIAN. THEY EAT 17° UP, Diamond Ranks First Among Precious Stones HE bride of today refuses flat- have been takey to a fashionable the gem much more firmly, and jew- ly to wear a gold band on her: Jeweler and remounted in platinum, elers say that it is greatly to be pre- finger. It takes more than ferred as a working medium that to win the modern woman away along with the diamond bodices and * from her 'life of single blessedness, "NOUIder straps of sogiety's smartest Diamonds are constantly going up. Some of them will do it for carved Women. For, since it 1s thought that They have increased 33 per cent platinum, but they are beginnig now gold does not accentuate the beauty since the first of the year, but this to demand a hoop of diamonds with of a diamond. ty its height, ou has does not apparently stop anyone the marriage contract. This, how- ever, is not as discouraging as it vr + + sounds. You can get an intriguing little diamond circle for $125, quite smart enough to appear before the most up-to-date altar. From that you can pay up to $1,000--and that's enough! Because after that the size of the diamonds makes a ring too wide, for no woman nowadays con- sents to be tagged with anything wider than one-sixteenth of an inch. America First, Two-thirds of all the diamonds mined in the world now come to America. And, according to one of the leading diamond authorities, America demands and gets the best. Stones having a brown or yellow tinge, and any with more than an imperceptible flaw must find a mar- © ket elsewhere. Even the royalty of - Europe stands aside for their majes- ties, the American public. England is second in her demands, France is third, while China insists upon a bet- ter grade than does Japan, and Rus- sia has always been satisfied with an Inferior stone. The Russians will even take a third pique stone, * and this to the initiated is pretty bad, since they contain imperfections vis- ible to the naked eye, at a glance, and they can never refract the rays of light into living sunshine as does 4 perfect stone. But, since there are only eight or ten perfect stones found among every hundred mined, it Is a good thing that there is someone willing to take the poor ones off our hands, There has never been a time in his- tory when diamonds have received the attention which is being be- Stowed upon them today. Diamond * has become an art. Each 18, carefully studied by experts, is said to have ab individ- must be brought out by settings. As one fa- 3 Jeweler put it, it is Hike fram- i} I fl IF RE IS A COZY CORNER ATHLETE INTTIEA PE HAT" wHALLST REID AND EL GENES OUWRLEN ARE CNL PIRERS AE CONMFRRED TO MINTZ Pr ~~ 2 ERNE sim nl) dons. 1/22 ALWAYS THE SAME. Kohindr, weighing 102% carats, now palm for size when it cdmes to the ) ---- a part of the crown jewels of Fng- Cullinan, named for its finder, who The dear girls are not changed land. The Regent, 136 carats, valued discovered it in 1905 in the Premier 8 bit, so far, by the franchise nor | t $2,500,000, is a French jewel and mines of the Transvaal. This stone by any of the various liberties, li. now rests in the Louvre. The Orloff weighed 3024% carats, and was too censes and laxities--if you please weighs 195 carats and is cut in the much for a single person to manage. --that have come with it. They form of a rose. This has the ro- So an English syndicate bought it never will be changed, They will | Mantic history of being stolen from and ft was divided, the largest piece, always have the impulse to lure f having be- weighing 516% carats, being mount- the male, to wheedle him, flatter arine of Rus- ed in a marvelous setting in the him, cajole hm or do anything-- [ *I* All, however, must yield the English sceptre. and always the right thing to make him succumb to the posver o! og oop sor od wats | Uncle Sam at Brazil's Exposition the impulse, though they are be. Soi Jere any oR amuthing. HROUGH its Department of cording to the topography of the thi they will always have the Agriculture the United States countyy. An inviting and well-de- wit to master the arts of coquetry Government is one of the im- veloj farmstead is shown in the which have been the and portant foreign exhibitors at the Bra- middle are the same, and om the tillan Centennial Expasition at Rio » %: today and for. de Janeiro. The Department's ex. prosperous, highly developed and hii urls time of the 'cave hibit covering 4,000 feet of floor progressive because of its good man wp % Space, represents careful selection Toads. Supplementing this is a se- today, 'with an eye to including subjects re- ries of enlarged photographs of lating to American farming that are Toads in the United States construct- of most interest to Brazilians. ed utider the supervision of the Bu- aay ts = En qutiote due The exhibit from the Bureau of feau of Public Roads. - there is no better investment in the FUP! Roads brings out vividly the The diversified character of the world than a piece of diamond jew- benefits of good roads. Comstruc- live-stock industry in the United elry. tion of a gravel road, a popular kind States is presented in the exhibit of Synthetic Diamonds, fact that the .diamond capitalists feet deep and 10 feet high. In the Stock and pleksant * will now be ruined and that every- immediate foreground is shown a Let any man once show the world that he feels x Afraid of its bark, and "twill fly at his heels; | at his feet if he fling it a bone,