Show THIS COUNTRY'S DIAMONDS The world word h has s never never se seen nr and ad in no other part of the tho world Is there now to tobe tobe tobe be seen anything like Americas America's s jewel- jewel madness as shown by the conditions of today when more sown than New New Nework York ork es est establishments es- es 3 t toay are s solely lely In the importation of precious stones when the agents of American dealers delers are searching Europe for the tle white g gems geins s and hopelessly endeavoring to supply American appeals for rubles rubies and emeralds and ana when beG beGmen 6 men In South Africa are tolling to obtain diamonds more than half of which are to add to the e beauty and d happiness a I of f the American e woman al it l is S she C ei that a has caused the United I d States to become the greatest diamond market et in the world For her we have Imported In a single Ingle year worth of ot precious stones for her at one period we smuggled them them In at the rate of a a. year for r her 51 we annually buy rOO something like worth of or diamonds and thus for her sake heartlessly leave of the worlds world's s to tolt tot tot toB total to- to leve tab tal output t of f diamonds only I some o fe l CCO worth t to B satisfy lt the i vanity II I of al all the rest of the women on earth For or her adornment we annually cause to be DC brought ht to this country diamonds weighIng weighing weigh weigh- ing In the e aggregate 1000 to 2000 pounds a 0 i a weight t three times sl that of the Io total output of the famous Kimberly field and andi practically c equal of f that of the whole of South Africa i U the h worlds world's I greatest a dia diamond diamond dia- dia mond mine Ainslee's Magazine |