Show jewelers thero are two jewelers in chinatown but their establishments do not resemble the ordinary places known as jewelry shops the chinesa jeweler is a manu as well as a shopkeeper hi establishment is a tiny room up ono 01 two narrow flights of stairs the room in one place is divided by an openwork iron partition with an arch and a counter near the window where the elands at work he is an elderly china man wearing glasses and he works over a tiny fire in the window all hit work is done by hand and some of it ii beautiful there are heavy silver bracelets which open with a hinge and fasten with an odd little staple the fine raised pattern is cut oat every bit of it by hand there are gold rings made in same way they are fine rings made of 24 carat gold almost nothing is kepr in stock there may chance to bo a few rings and bracelets which are taken from a small safe most of the goods are made to order when the mann fac is asked the price of a ring ho weighs it before he answers his scales consist of a slender stick of ivory perhaps a third of a yard long covered with chinese characters at ono end la a small brass plate suspended from the stick by fine threads and a very small weight also hanging by a thread is moved along to the balancing point by the jeweler as he holds the little ma chine in his hand the front part of tha little chop is filled with a stove table dishpan dishes as many things as coald be crowded into it new york times |