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Show I . Cost of Keeping- Diamond. Diamonds are an expensive luxury, evsn lifter thty ore purchased. It requires s large expense to keep them in repair, as well as to take care of them at times. "You would scarcely believe that we employ em-ploy over a hundred jewel cleaners," said a member of a largo establishment. "W do, though. Most of our customers ore afraid to intrust tho cleaning of their jewels and the polishing of tho diamonds to their maids, and as th work has to be done at least once a month, it requires at : least a large corps of workers. Some of I our experts are women, but tho majority i aro men. The work is done hero in th shop, generally, for if done at tho homos of tho owners wo tro obliged to Bend at least two watchers with each cleaner. Just now wo havo a half dozen cleaners down at Newport. Expensive jewels cost inst about as much to keep es expensiv orses. and are much more liable to dam-age." dam-age." Onco a Week. |