Show KANSAS CITY SOCIETY WOMAN GIVES HER GUESTS DIAMONDS Kansas City Mo Jan 17 Kansas Kansas City has hus a society woman who gives diamonds to her guests as aa party Ca favors favors- 0 rs But she can afford it because because because be be- cause she owns a diamond mint not In Africa but In southwestern Arkansas Arkansas- Mrs George D. D Hope of ot 1333 Linwood Boulevard the wife of ofa ofa a a. wealthy wealth lumberman is the tha now diamond queen At a n. whist party at her home she surprised her guests by b offering diamonds as prizes Mrs Hopes Hope's husband owns ons about acres of ot Arkansas timberland Seven years yearn ago he sold acres that had hall been beds cut over o to his wife at a 3 ba ba- ba bagain gain price After I had bought th the theland land hand from m my husband said Mr Mrs H Hope pe I went down don to look it over I A railroad switch was being built across my m land to m icy r husbands husband's saw sav sawmill mill mm I J was t watching the men work one day when a little negro boy pat passed b by with a peculiar looking hooking pebble lIe He said he found round It where the men were making a cut through h a 3 hill hili for the tho switch track The negro boy offered to sell mo me mothe methe the stone for Cor a nickel I offered to give gh him a dime for eve every even stone like it that ho found I 1 sent tho the pebbles to experts In New York City and they said they were diamonds Sinco Since then th n nI I have ha picked up diamonds In the vicinity I had of the stones cut They ranged In weight from om one one- quarter of a u carat to five carat Several millionaires In iii the tho East Eai t tare are I diamonds Mrs Mis Hope lIopo wearing my continued and they do not appear o x be ashamed of ot them I dont don't see any an difference between the Arkansas diamonds dia Ula- monds and m my African diamonds I asked an expert in New York City who Is a friend of ot mine why Jewelers tried to discredit tho the Arkansas gems He said the tho American Amen Ameri can Jewelers were vero overstocked o with African diamonds and that if It Arkansas Arkan Arkan- sas diamonds were placed on the marI market mar mar- I hot ket et in quantities it would lower the tho price of tho the African product |