The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-11
GUARDING JEWELS.
ACTORS INVENT STRANGE HIDING
PLACES FOR TREASURES.
Fashionable Women Utilize Their
Big Sleeve and Crush Collar
When Travelling to Conceal Their
Tiaras, Necklaces and sun Bursts.

New York, Nov. 10.-Emma Abbott.
during her stage career, employed
prominent jeweler to invent cunning
concealments for carrying about her
splendid collection of precious stones.
The singers favorite mode Of trans
porting them was in her paniers. Hip
puffs were Fashionable then, and little
chamois pockets were sewed inside for
holding a great number of valuable or
naments. The jeweler never told OF the
hiding places of the jewels while pan
iers were in vogue, and Mrs. Abbott de-
clared she felt safer with her jeweleoi
panniers on than if she had a body
guard about her.
Nowadays the crush collar so univers-
ally popular is employed very frequentt
ly as a temporary travelling safe. Its
loose fold, usually made of velvet, pro-
vide many small pockets which, when
lined with chamios silk, serves the pur-
pose eXcellently.
The average woman carries her treas
ures in a small leather bag slipped in,
side her corset, but this is out Of tho
question with women who own from
fifty thousand to half a million dollars
worth of jewels. Not only would the
load be cumbersome, but injurious. Any
continued pressure of clothes or bone
against woman'S bosom is hurtful,
but the burden of gold and stones would
undoubtedly create cancer. A physician
whom I queried on the subject said he
had instituted a crusade against tbs
habit. A wonan'S breast. he remarked
was one of the most sensitive spots to
cancerous growth, therefore the slight
est pressure there should be avoided.
a ri WIN felyKy
dozens of diamonds has had several lit
tie bags made that are fastened with
safety pins along the lines of her stock
ing supporters. These supporters con-
sist of four strong silk elastic straps de-
pending from a small satin belt which
she fastens securely about her waist,
giving it additional safety by double
pinning it to her corsets. So down the
straps. which are kept taut by the
stockings. are fastened these little jewel
cases. She says they do not interfere
at all with her walking, but as she is
a poor pedestrienne, it would scarcely
do to take her word on it.
The heavy leather belt recently adopt
ed has proved a boon to the summer
woman tourist, for several of these belts
were sent to jewelers. to have negluious
leather pockets fitted into the inside.
But possibly" said a jeweler who
makes of these devices a speciality, "the
chamois skin belt worn under the petit
coat and over the corsetS is the faVor1te
mode of concealment. The girdle is
preferably fashioned at a jewelers.. 1t
does not fit at the waist line proper, for
then it would interfere with the curve,
but clings to the hips. 1t has the same
compartment method, is caught to the
corsets with light steel pins, and is
60 h. oI-
pins. None of the jewels are placed in
the extreme back, for sitting erect
against g. chair might prove uncomfort-
able"
Large sleeves" said another jeweler
on Broadway, "have proved a boon in
this case to many diamond owners. We
have had a number Of these lego NUT
ton sleeves belonging to heavy cloth
gowns sent us to have channels cloth
fitted in them. Here safety is absolute
for the pieces are distributed so that
the weight will not pull down the cloth,
The chamois is put next to the skin as
an inner lining, but cut equally as full
as the sleeve. Each pocket is arranged
so that the owner can get at them
without ripping. 1 suppose we have
fixed a dozen after this manner for
European Travellers
All these designs are adapted for the
woman out-of-doors. For the woman
indoors, there is usually the iron safe
for the possessor of rare and numerous
jewels. All the women of the Wander
bilt, Aston and Gould families have
such deposits, and guests who visit
them are requested to put their Jewels
in the same deposit
Women owning a fair sprinkling Of
good stones usually have a small com
blnation safe to place on their manteIs
or in their wardrobes. This safe is
screwed down from the inside to the
woodwork where it is placed and a
thief needs to know the combination to
be able to get at the screws.
Rlch women who go to Newport. T on-
don or Paris for a season seldom carry
their jewels with them They take
them to either of the two best known
jewelers. here, who have branch houses
IN all prominent cities, and order them
shipped to the branch of the housa in
the place they are to visit. Identifica-
tlon papers are fixed. signatures are
sent ana the person to whom the paners
are made out enters her applicat ion
with all due references to the branct
nrm and obtains her jewels. This saves
al trouble and puts her to little ex9
penSe. n HAT1T6 eA-
WOMEN WHO WRITE.