New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
Her TwoInch Ring and
Ten Other Gems Stir
Peacock Alleyites
Calls Them Her Hobby
Mrs. c. II. Anthony in Inter-
view Lets Jewels Do the
Talking

Out in Muncie, Ind, where prepared
ness is regarded as a rash confined to
the hectic East and 81 wheat IS the axis
upon which the world revolves, lives
Mrs. Charles H. Anthony.
III we're not for Mrs. Anthony Nun
Gle might be nothing more than an
agate line in an atlas, as far as New
York is concerned. But there is Mrs.
Anthony pretty blond woman, with
positive passion for diamonds and
habit of descending upon this city every
once in so often to let them shine in the
rarefed air of Peacock Alley.
Three years ago New York INDUCED
i'm a slight spasm OF surprise when she
appeared wearing diamond heels to her
neat little slippers. The sparkles ema-
mating from a two-mch ring exhibited
IN Peacock Alley on Thursday aroused
city editors TO the fact that even if
Mrs. Anthony did have a penchant for
diamonds she might also have pearl
or so TO cast about fashions.
Interview Given
As a result, an interview was give-
yesterday in the parlor of the apart
ments at the Waldorf-Astoria by the
matron from Muncie.
Mrs. Anthony's attire struck that note
of harmonious simplicity upon which
our leading fashion writer's harp. She
wore a three-piece suit. a string of
pearls and some diamonds. The skirt
was white silk, or velvet, or sateen, or
some shimmery stuff. She also wore a
white straw hat and some diamonds; a
white silk shirt waist, cut low. and
some diamonds; a white velvet coat and
some diamonds.
"The diamond is my birthstone" she
said. 81 have a large collection of
them. Each stone is picked out and
bought separately for me by an Indian
apolis jeweller. They are set in plati-
num-"
Perhaps Mrs. Anthony was not wear
ing the entire collection. 1t was ;.fter-
noon. and besides they were not cata-
logued. II is quite possible, therefore,
that a trinket or so may have been
overlooked. Yet, as accurately as one
could tell without the aid of smoked
glasses. she wore % two earrings,
each two inches long. each with four
and half carat diamond and two
smaller brilliants; % a simple pearl
and platinum chain; go a drop chain Of
diamonds, to which was attached a. an
odd brooch containing five large dia-
monds; 90 a diamond and platinum
chain, caught with a platinum and dia-
mond feur-de-lis design, in whose cen
ire was 90 a large heart-shaped dia-
mond. and TO this chain was attached
I'D a lorgnette with a large diamond
In its handle Also, the 49, famous
.wo-inch ring, which has three large
stones and a score of smaller ones, and
three additional %, 10, IL marquise
rings.
Diamonds Her Hobby
Diamonds are hobby with me-" adj
mitted Mrs. Anthony.
Then came the contrasting fashion
pearls. The Muncie arbiter does not
care for the wide skirt, for fiounces or
furbelows.
81 am in favor of the narrow, cling
ing style. 7 like short skirts, she
said. glancing at her small feet, incased
in high white boots.
The war scare has caused Mrs. An
thony TO engage passage overland for
Nuncie on Sunday. You see, she took
the last train out of Paris when the
European war broke out, and she knows
consequently that she and the diamonds
would be much more comfortable IN the
heart of Delaware County, Indiana.