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Show FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS. Another field is opening for American Ameri-can soldiers who were wounded iu the great European war, so grievously as to prevent their entering occupations where there are heavy physical demands. Already some scores of men of this class are finding remunerative employment as diamond cutters and polishers in New York and other American cities. Men who retain the use of their hands and eyes may become expert lapidaries. A good diamond cutter earns about $75 a week. Many British soldiers are engaged in tho craft. At Brighton, in England, there is a government school wherein 1200 men are at work who vvero wounded wound-ed in France or Belgium. ExHrts say that a large proportion of them have already become skilled workmen. Tho output of the Brighton school compares favorably with that of the oldest, established houses of Amsterdam, Amster-dam, the city which, for centuries, has been accounted the onlv place in the world where a diamond can properly bo cut and polished. In a test made recently, re-cently, men long in the trade were unable un-able to determine which gems of a collection col-lection had been cut at Brighton and which at Amsterdam. The production of rough diamonds in South Africa is estimated at $60,000,000 a year. With the added expense of cutting, cut-ting, the value can bo placed at $100,-000,000. $100,-000,000. There is no good reason why a fair share of the $40,000,000 set apart for tooling should not be earned by Americans who fought for world liberty. lib-erty. Surely, the American can become as expert in this occupation as the Briton or the Hollander; and it is but just that if American dollars pay for diamonds, American workmen should reap what benefit there may be in preparing pre-paring them for market. : |