Show I 1 8 ry ml WALL JU alit B of f NEW it was peter rainier who told me about emeralds mr laner I 1 a n er hap pens to have hav been born in abrica but I 1 is great gleat grandfather was a brit ish admiral it vis is for this navy man tl at N vancouver an couver named mt ait rain am er in ta tie e state of IN baslington Was ington lington the glacier clad peak peal you see fi aiom oin I 1 larasse ara lise inn a resting place which was vas aptly chris bened george palmer putnam johnny held areddy wall ce irwin charles hanson lowne and I 1 vere there several years ago and I 1 never nener shall forget it just at present pe ter rainier js Is at the I 1 club having come up from columb columba a where the eicwald emerald mine he Is work worl ng Is lo 10 bated to get to tl e mine from 1 ew york la is a simple matter all sou ou have to do Is to take a boat tl ioui tl e I 1 an ama canal and then go down tl tie e co 0 coast to some such place is buenaventura tt TI en you take a t a n to bogata bodata the cap tal this tikes only a couple of dis and n blits ind and yon you are then practically at dour our des dilation tin atlon A hilly horseback ride of two additional adit ional days will bring ou to the emeralds the emeralds are s fuated in some rock on top of a 9 OW foot mountain but there is a bit of d aging 9 ing to be done before you can get at them it Is necessary in fact to remove about feet of the mountain top before you get to the rock the next thing Is to find the emeralds the largest larest of which may perhaps perli aps be as big as your thumb to do this you crack up and s ft the rest of the mountain emer aids are found as crystals and always in hexagonal prisms moreover when they are found each of the six f cices ices Is pol shed more perfectly than a jeweler can do it they lie ile in veins in tw ti solid rock and after one of tl ese veins is opened you can dig the em aralds out with your thumb diamonds are found in blue clay and rubles and sapphires in gravel but emeralds are more eastly guarded by nature next to the diamond I 1 be lieve they are the hardest of precious stones tle tl e early colombia natives used use d to barter emeralds and the span lards later worked the mines tl TI ey dd d d it by driving tunnels and shafts and it was by an indian falling down one of these ancient workings that the mines were rediscovered A day days s journey down the moun tain slope from the mines mr air rain ier ler has a 5 acre ranch here he raises vegetables horses and cattle I 1 asked him whether he ever had im ported cattle from the north he said he had not one reason was that im ported cattle might not like the alti tude and another that only the native cattle could stay on the mountain slopes he couldn coulden t even find a horl contal place for his ranch house and had to build it on two levels 0 we always are hearing persona persons say that to be a good bridge player one ne must have card sense ely culbert son never played poker or any card game except bridge he ile declares tl at card sense ts is not essential in his ion what a player needs at bridge is a good system and a good head some one told me the other day that olga petrova s real name was muriel hard ng and that she was british born they admitted however that she had learned to speak broken english with nith a more charming accent than a real russian jenny dolly of the famous dolly sisters now runs a alln lingerie erie shop in paris and has an exquisitely furnished and beautiful lome 1 ome in that city Q 1932 bell syndicate service |