The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-20

wish if he had tried TO get money on
after taking all that risk
How do you suppose The fakes got
into the jewelry collection of Mrs. Har-
rison?" asked the old detectives friend.
Il don't have to imag CINE overtime. The
Harrison collection wasn't much different
from that of any rich mans wife,
DO you mean to say that every col
lection of Jewels has some fakes among
The real things?'
Perhaps not every one. but a good
many. Especially when it comes to
pearls. There are half dozen methods
Of making pearls that will pretty nearly
deceive experts. The fish scale pearls are
the best. believe but recently some one
mas put glass pearl On the market that
would make you covet a string of them.
"A guy with not any too much money,
but high hopes. falls in love with an
heiTess. Wen say. He hasn't the where
withal to give her a big diamond pend
ant, and fake diamonds are too easily
detected So he says. Darling 1 think a
string of pearls would look like the real
thing around your swan-like neck. She's
agreeable. and he HES him to a big
establishment in the Tenderloin and or
ders a 'phory' pearl rope that would
cost go. 600 If 1t was the actual goods.
And don't think that it costs nothing.
either, even for the fake. Do you recall
that case a few years ago when a Ger
tain titled nobleman was sued by this
firm for the price of a pearl gewgaw
I, l,.I lii H.
were bogus. but she had accepted them
for the true article. and it cost her daddy
something like 5000 as he had to pay
the bill for his titled son-in-law.
at the big jewelers. like Tiffany's.
they don't make practice of turning out
fake pearls or anything else. bat occasion
ally a well known customer comes in
who has lost some pearls out of real
necklace, dog collar or stomacher, or
something. To reinsert real pearls into
the harness would cost a good Geal of
money. and maybe hubby has been get
ting squeezed in Wall street lately. and
the dough isn't so easily obtainable as IL
used to be when the piece of jewelry was
first purchased. Ills then that the fake
pearls can be put in among the real ones
and they are so real in looks that they
never bring a blush to the cheek CT the
true articles alongside. II they did, my
son. half the pearls ladies wear Towa-
days would be as red as Tubies.
"A little while ago l was called in by a
lady to help her out of a little fix. 1t
seems her husband had given her a pearl
ornament that had cost him about $4,000.
The lady had needed money shortly after
and did away with the bauble, getting
about half it's price. Then she had an
exact duplicate made in fakes that cost
her 1880. Her hubby accused her of it.
but he couldn't prove anything. as he
didn't know enough about pearls to swear
that those OF his wife were false But he
had demanded that she let him
take the gewgaw to the jeweler
and have him pass on it.
She had gained time by telling him that
her sister was wearing it. but that she
would have IL back next day. What she
wanted to do was to get the real arti-
Gle from the pawnbroker she had sold it
to just day or two to let hubby show
it to the original jeweler. 1t got it all
right and saw the two alongside each
other. and / swear couldn't have picked
the genuine goods from the fake.
1t would be a sorry day for some of
us If every girl who's flashing a pearl
necklace as gift from US were to walk
into jeweler and get him TO tell her
if It really cost as much as We said 1t
did when we gave 1t TO her TheIe'd
be lot of disappointment.
But what's the difference? Everything
IS fake, moro or less. and the pearl in
1ustry is only cate hing up with the pro-
,ession. I wouldn't be surpIized if the
oysters began to turn out phony pearls
themselves pretty socn''