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Show Womrn, Diamonda and Rogues. New York Stiir. I wonder why old ladies overload themselves with diamonds? I was one the other day at a daylight reception fairly bedi.ened with precious stones, some of thein apparently of great valuo. Not only were her ears ornamented with immense pendants aud her lingers decked with many sparkling rings but even her bounet sparkled with a large spray of diamonds. This reminds me of a curious sceue that attracted the attention of hundreds at the Grand Central station not long ago. It was night and the people were crowding toward to-ward the sleeping cars of a westbound express train, but nearly every one found time to pause and stare at an odd figure beside the ticket Inspector at the gate. It was a homely old woman, in tears, and of doubtful sobrietv, but sparkling at every point with the biggest big-gest diamonds I ever beheld. The things had not the appearance of paste, and if they were what they seemed to be, the old woman, alone and unprotected unpro-tected at night, was carrying openly upon her person a fortune that might well have tempted a highwayman. My journey lay westward, and I was unable to learn what the strange apparition ap-parition meant. The ordinary ethics are curiously disregarded dis-regarded by many New York women of unimpeachable respectability. Half the honest wives that one sees on Broad-wav Broad-wav display diamonds at some point, aud not a few are a source of tempation to many a powling rogue. However, in the matter of wearing jewels by daylight, day-light, as in the matter of adornment generally, American women can teach a lesson to their British sisters of tho middle class. I never had seen upon the wrists and fidgers of our own women any such exhibition of tawdry splendors and distinguishes the person of nearly every traveling Englishwomen that one meets. t |