New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-08-05
PRECIOUS DIAMONDS.
STRANGE STORIES OF HOW
THEY HAVE BEEN LOST.
A Tale Of q Jewel and Lover-A Ring
Lost For Two Years and Found
In q Skirt-The Part q Girls
ParasOl Played.

The facility with which jewels and
other valuables will disappear and be
lost from sight under our eyes is q
phenomenon that still remains unex-
planned, but an incident occurred few
days ago that was decidedly unique.
A young married lady, who lives on
Olive, just beyond Grand avenue, says
the Post-Dispatch, was the sufferer,
and she lost valuable diamond ring.
She was spending an hour at down.
town establishment where manicuring,
massage and baths of various kinds
are administered to many women of
fashion, when tho proprietress noticed
that she had tied something securely
in her handkerchief and held it out in
her hand to be placed in safety.
II have tied my diamonds in my
handkerchief" she said. s'You may
look at them if you choose y lid
'4ndeed I WILL for love precious
stones" said the proprietress, taking
them and settling down in the next
room, leaving the door ajar.
While she was examining them with
great enjoyment and counting the
finger rings, which all had handsome
settings, some of maguifcent diamonds,
her daughter came in, her purse in her
hand. Turning to her daughter she
said: "Come and see what pretty dia-
monds Mrs. S. has,"
The daughter and mother looked at
the jewels and duly admired them all,
and just as the mother was going to
replace them in the handkerchief she
noticed that one ring was missing.
She searched diligently without find
ing it and had almost come to the con-
clusion she must have counted wrong,
but upon asking Mrs. S. she had her
own impression confirmed that there
were six when she received them.
Both herself and daughter looked
everywhere, shook out their skirts,
the rugs, the table covers, yet no ring
| dropped out and no trace of it was
found in the room. By this time the
owner had joined them, and most
diligent search was instigated with
like disappointment.
ut is one of the handsomest of all, u
said Mrs. S., "a 5000 diamond that
was my engagement ring"
The proprietress had become much
excited when the ring could not be
produced and she gave orders that no
one should enter the room until the
ring was found. In looking carefully
over the room but one place was dis.
covered where any article the size OF
a ring could be lost, and that was a
little place under the chair board
where a piece had been torn off.
'I'll send for a carpenter" said the
proprietress, land have the chair
board ripped off and see if it could
have rolled under that space"
She told the daughter to go quickly
to the nearest point where they could
obtain the help of a carpenter, and
just as the young lady was leaving the
room she lifted her parasol, and with
a resounding noise the missing ring
fell out. It had dropped into the
parasol while the young girl stood by
her mrother looking at the rings.
There was great rejoicing among those
ladies, and they vowed they would no
touch anybody's diamonds ever again
Another accident occurred to a lady
who used to visit st. Louis every sum
mer on her way East She had very
beautiful rings and one that she valued
greatly. She had taken a drive with
Judge Ireland, once the governor O.
Texas, one afternoon and wore thai
ring. Just before she reached home
before leaving the buggy she discov
cred that her ring was gone. She fell
so dreadfully at her loss that they re
turned part of their drive in the vair
hope of finding it and made a diligen
and thorough search of the buggy, al
to no purpose. .-
She turned her rooms upside dowl
when she got home, hoping to find tn,