Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-27

framed in East India mahogany The larger the ones
which hold the silver handsomely carved and
planned by worldfamous architect.
Old Benvenuto Cein would have felt at home in these
sumptuous surroundings and would frankly have admired
the bottom of his artistic heart if he envied the
examples the skill of brother craftsmen in the exquisite
arts of Woodworking and jewelsetting.
There is indeed atmosphere about this place that
descends from days when great kings great commits
sions to great godsmths
With this difference:
"The King business" as ex-Ambassador Gerard terms
it, not what but the ewely and sverware bust
is the upgrade owing to the fact that the great
of people can have and, unlike some of those old
kings, pay forD fine furnishings of silver for their
table, and sparkling gems, embarrassed by sump
uary laws and happier in the blessings of personal liberty
and prosperity than any people ever were before.
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TTUNDREDs of thousands of dollars worth of the
markets finest yield of precious and semi-precious
stones in artistic and infinitely varied settings which
display the utmost skill and the newest ideas of the modern
goldsmith sparkle in handsome and in the language
of Jewels speak their invitation to purchase if you wish,
to admire because you must.
You will be told the exact truth, as we know it,
concerning the value and standing of bit of ewey you
may purchase whether the object of your selection be
flashing emerald, deep sapphire charming amethyst
blazing diamond plain signet ring of the
thousandandone attractive rinkets to be had at the
counters devoted to the sale of inexpensive jewelry.
But this is Store in which no is driven to pur-
chase in order to have questions answered coureousy
Without feeling the customary battery of reproachfu
gances sheng the back of his her head the ookeron
in Venice may pass freely from aisle to ase
in quiet appreciation of the beauties there displayed
\o the diamond, acknowledged empress of the world
of jewels, is accorded the distinction of all
to itself.
And few pass that case without glance.
A superb exhibit it is, of the endless artistry and
imagination which employed in giving this wondrous
stone its most effective combinations and settings in the
form of rings bracelets brooches pendants barpns, neck
aces and other dazzling pieces destined to make fair
look fairer.
There's passing discounting the fascination of
the radiant diamond
From the day when the famous mines of GOlconda
gave the light their first gterng stone to yesterday
when amrng groups stood entranced around the beautiful
display at Wanamakers tho prsmatchued signals which
have flashed from its heart of white fire have been accepted
by all beholders as meaning unconditional surrender
1t stands solitary among precious stones in its
position it is supreme in its beauty being the only one
which is made of pure carbon The old Greeks
beyond all things with its hardness called adamas the
unconquerabe stone To matteoffact twenteth-cenury
Americans, it is still "the irresistible stone"
The ancient and renowned mines of Golconda, which
gave I'D the Kohnoor and other renowned Jewels
ouworked and deserted but neither the dark earths gift
diamonds the atmosphere of romance that attends
them have thereby died out The great South African
diamond mines which produce the hgquality bue-whte
stones sold in this Jewey Store are said to have owed
their discovery to children.
The first diamond found, tradition states, attracted
mild attention as pretty pebbepossibly topaz-but
not worth the expense of rsecass postage its travels