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Show .MITATION JEWEL COLORS. H .Diamonds Found In Canadian Woods H New Gem from Bho- "About $5,000,000 worth of Imitation H jewels aro mado In the Unite,! states overy year," says nn oxpert. "A groat H many peoplo think that pasta Jewels, ns they nro railed, nro nothing but puro glass but in this they nro mis- H taken. The stuff Is a paste, cnlled strass, which differs from ordinary glass In hnvlng one of tho mc:atilc oxides ns n base. H "These oxides give the gem Its uilor Tho diamond being colorless, none of tho o'tldcs arc used. The ruby is H mado by mixing the sirnss with a H Rmall proportion of glaui of antimony, porp'n cnssius nnd an e. rmoly small B inrticl-3 of gold. Sapphires aro mado with strnst nnd cobnlt, the emerald by H oxldo or copper and ovldo of mnngnn- ese; tho amethyst with rohalt nnd ox- Ide of mnnp:nce, and tho garnst with H Plirplo Of C.TiSlllH. H "A now gem, tight blue In color, has lately been discovered In Rhodesli It H is behoved that tho gem will bo fash- lonable. Few of the stones aro seen H In Now York, but a great many nuvo been shown In London. Perhap3 you didn't know that thero is -mpposod to be n great diamond del-' up In the nor" -n cn iral part of nndn. H "Diamonds aro constnrtly being H found in the woods of Canada, and H last year n stone, picked up by nn In- dlnn, was sold to a white man lor SS rents. Tho whlto man hurried to Do- troll with It, nnd got $1,500 frsm u H Jeweler tor his Investment. J W be- lleved by scientists thnt the diamond H bed exists In tho north, end thnt tho diamonds were brought Into th; Houtn central part by prehistoric glnners." |