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Show Americans Buying Diamonds. The diamond-wearing habll wss nt i thought In the Vest to be ft d'.stlngush-Ing d'.stlngush-Ing characterlstl- of the effete East That judgment win have to be revised In view 61 the lact that a most uaionlsli-Ing uaionlsli-Ing proportion of .ill the Orderg that have gone to swell the American Im- I ports of gems for the year 1905 to the stupendous iralue of IS7.000.oto have come out of th middle West. Never bofore have thc6c figures been r'-aclied. ,ind this extraordinary ilemend by Amerlcuns lor prcclOUS stone's must be o ci pi, .1 ,.s striklns e 1.1. in- ,,t th.- I general prosperity of the country It IS easy to understan I I o win the '.,t should be spending Its money ln diamonds. dia-monds. How else can the owners of those tremendous corn crops apend their money, when they have piled up their strong lio.x.s with gilt-edge stocks, and as rumor has it lately, have Invested In nutomoblk ' Diamonds, however, are not the worst things to put money Into Thcv won't produce Interest perhaps, but the or-Igliint or-Igliint wenlth Is irctly sure to remain there. -Boston Globe |