Show AMERICANS BUYING DIAMONDS t among facts disclosed in tile investigation conducted by the council of national defense to learn buying trend in civilian trade during the war ire it decided increase lit in sules sales of small diamonds and 11 falling failing off lit in sales of sizes from oue one half this jL lils Is attributed to the cal cart lit upward gird great increase crease lit in price and the tendency of people 1 to buy diamonds by price alone eliat Is they hae perl perhaps SM 7 or to put lit in it a stone and it ariti thon thein a enuch smaller jewel than the same amount would procure a year or two ago Witt elies ire arc in great demand especially wrig watches which inive been enormously popularized by the war |