Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-04-02

PRODUCTION to the female members of ex-
cellent families. 1t is probably such inn
portant assets as these that many of them
are looking for.
A diamond ring that cost 500 three
years ago is now worth $f75. Since the
close of the Boer war the value of dia-
monds has gone up in jumps of per
cent. until at present 1901 diamond is
Ia I5 per cent. security. The present
value. the wholesale and retail diamond
merchants agree. will go still higher DUR
ing the next year, and will undoubtedly
reach a 100 per cent. increase in 1901
steady rise cf % per cent. for four
years. In the opinion of local jewellers,
diamonds are new q better Investment
than the most desira BILE stocks and bonds:
there is little possibility, they say, Of
their decrease in value, owing to the fact
that Il demand for them is unlimited and
there is little possibility of good imita.
ton ever being invented. The cost of
their production. moreover. due to pres
ent labor difficulties in Antwerp and Am
sterdam, will probably be increased from
now on, and will thus be a constant tend.
ency toward higher prices.
In an attempt to check the dissemina-
ton of pneumonia and germs of other
diseases of the respiratory organs, Presi-
dent Darlington of the board of health
has enlisted the aid of half million
school children. His idea is that they
will not only help greatly in the enforce
ment Of laws prohibiting expectoration on
sidewalks and in public conveyances but
that, in educating the child he will be
educating the man. He has brought the
matter to the attention of Henry A. Rog-
erS president of the board of education
who heartily approves the suggestion.
Great quantities of slips are being printed
by the department of health for dstribu-
ton among the children, and at the same
time the teachers will be expected to ex-
plain the seriousness of the dangers in
volved in the practice of splitting in public
places 1t is designed that both boys and
girls carry n little pad of the warning
slips and that when they see a man yio-
hating the ordinance they will hand him
a card warning him of the heavy fine TO
which ne is liable. Public school teachers
also will be directed to take particular
pains III pointing ont TO their charges the
dangers OF violations of the sanitary code
The confession which Mrs. A. Royal
Guest, who figured as a witness against
her husband in a suit for alienation Of
affections brought against Il prominent
New Yorker. that she and other mem
beers of a dinner party had taken bits of
silver and cut glass from the table of
big uptown restaurant. seems to surprise
most people here. 1t does NOT surprise
the hotel and restaurant men at all.
Such places as Delmonico'S, Martin s,
the Waldorf. the Cafe On Beaux Arts
and many other places suffer the loss OF
Thousands of dollars worth of tableware
and linen every year just through this
little practice of taking away souvenirs
Of notable dinner gatherings This
practice is confined to no particular
class; indeed the hest people are the
most frequent offenders Only the other
night ut Martins woman made away
with a pepper grinder a salt cellar and
a ea,ipie of doilies. This triple petty
larceny PUT her outside the excuse that
She was merely collecting souvenirs OF
the dinner. Any one article would have
been sufficient for this purpose. The
pepper grinder was silver mounted, as
was the salt shaker, VIE the dolles
were evidently of expensive linen. The
whole must have been worth about ST.
certainly more than the profit for the
dinner Wanderers among the boarding
houses az New York frequently come
upon towel marked Waldorf. o.
naDkins with Martins name worked ~
their silk. thread. All these are eYi-
IeuceS of theftS. In this connection i
should be remarked that the reason hotei
Keepers object 10 dogs is that the mis-
tress rslaIlv slips away from the table
with tidbit for her pet, and il IS IN
variabv wrapped up in 4 napkin, Then,
rafher than make an admi ssion that sue
las baen feeding the little nrute. She Will
ossbar keen or destroy tbe napkin. In
those little ways hotel profits vanish
Bv far the most important art sale Of
tbo present season Is the purchase Tor
$4,000 Of Corot'S great landscape, "l.e