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Show First Jewelry Store. It may Interest women to know that tho first Jewelry storo was started in tho city of Chang On about 3,000 years ago. Tho Celestial Vanderbllta and Astors of that period know nothing of tho fascination of diamonds, bo-causo bo-causo diamonds wero not in voguo at that B. C. period. Pearls and Jado and coral and other unpolished mineral substances had to content them, and as if to mako good tho glitter of rivieres and tiaras, tho princesses of Chang On employed nrtlsans to fashion them tho most wonderful gold nnd silver ornaments, which in themselves wero far moro costly thnn diamonds. |