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The diamond is passing through an interesting phase, in which London, where the world's dia- mond output is controlled, is im- mediately interested.
Factors in the situation are the steady development of the new diamond field in Sierra Leone, where organised working began about three years ago, and prob- lems of supply and demand, which have been emphasised by what was described as a slight set- back" In the trading of cut stones since the end of the sum-
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Yet, the diamond, by reason of its unequalled Appeal, remains the best investment in the world, with Its value established · soundly and Armly by the Diamond Corpora- tion. who regulate supplies and to whom all the stones cast up in the for-Bung felds come for ultimate dispersal.
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although the American market, one of the chief, centres, is still a very considerable buyer and is doing very well in spite of the slight set-back.
"The general prospects for 1938 are. indeed, very good. Sales of rough diamonds have been defer- red until about the middle of January, when the demand is ex- pected to be very considerable. The industry has. in effect. taken a step back to jump forward again. DIAMONDS IN THE FACTORY
**The demand for Industrial diamonds continues to expand all over the very considerably these world, and
are approxi- mately 70 per cent. of the total weight of production. Thelt uses Industrially, fer precision work, boring, grinding, and cutting-for the diamond is so much harder than anything else continues to increase. One great motor company.
the first year of its accidental in the United States, for example, uses nearly 1,000 diamonds to discovery by a British official the
turn machine parts. output was £20 in value. For the last recorded twelve months 'dia- monds worth £500,124 had been found.
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"Diamond fashions to-day are and principally for square-cut emerald-cut stones. These have the lustre without being too shiny. "These diamonds are of extreme-although their all-round brilliance ly good quality." one of the is as great as ever, and they world's leading diamond experts remain things of beauty and joys said. "Their chief point is that
forever." they are largely, octahedrous and are easily. cut. for the octahedron is ah eight-sided Egure with the outline of the diamond" we know on playing cards.
"Until about August of this year there was a very great demand
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The expert added that gen diamonds of more than 100 carats weight which exist to-day number less than ten; indeed, there are fewer than 400 diamonds in human possession weighing more than 30 carats.
BALI SPOILED: BY TOURISTS
Ancient Culture Lost
“I Suppose If You Try As Young Acquire
You Can Look Cross”
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Mr. Justice Charles told attractive blonde at Sussex Assizes at Lewes that he was rather surprised to hear that she could
"look cross.”.
He made the observation during
the resumed hearing of an action in which a five-years-old boy is suing a Hove school.
The boy. Ronald William Harvey, is suing. through his mother, Mrs. Hattle Alice Harvey, a widow, of Lewes-crescent, Brighton, who joins him in the action, Miss Cecilia Lucy Wallhouse Thompson and Miss. Vera
Contantine Caroline Watson, carrying on business at St. Bride's School. Westbourne-villas, Hove,
"LOVED PLAYING WITH FIRE”
For the boy and his mother it was alleged that he received severe burns on his face and neck from
a gas fire in the sick room at the school. Miss Thompson and Miss Watson denied negligence.
When the case was opened it was stated that the boy.
False Values
Miguel Covarrubias, the Mexican painter and caricaturist, who re- cently visited London, claims that a picturesque and logical national culture, inherited by the million inhabitants of the recently famous island of Bali, in the Malay Archi- pelago, is being destroyed by tourists, missionaries and commer- clailsm.
He declares that degradation and poverty are being substituted for it.
"Bali was only conquered by the Dutch in 1908," he says, "but long before that the libraries of Holland had been. Alling slowly with scholarly volumes on the literature, the archaeology and the religion of Balt
"However, the remote little island only became news to the Western world with the advent, a few years
aims of Bali with a strong em- ago, of a series of documentary
phasis on sex appeal. The title of one of these films. 'Goona-goona,"
the Balinese term for magle, be came at the time Newyorkese for sex allure.
ONE-DAY STOP
had suffered considerable dis- **Lätely travel agencies have figurement, and that he would used the alluring name of Ball to have to be treated by plastle surgery.
attract hordes of tourists for their round-the-world cruises that make
one-day stop on the leland. "An average of five or six such cruises unload every winter some fifteen hundred · round-the-world tourists that leave the Balinese Puzzled as to why all these. mad- men come from so far for only one day.
Miss Thompson, in the box, said that she took the boy at reduced fees because she was ex-. ceedingly sorry when she heard Mrs. Harvey's story. Mrs. Harvey did not tell her that the boy had a peculiar love of playing with fire. "If I had been told that I should
"Undoubtedly Bail will soon not have been prepared to take enough be 'spolled' for those fasti- him at this reduced tee," she said. dious travellers who abhor all that Miss Thompson said that the which they bring with them. - But gas fre was protected by even when all the Balinese will
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He has collected in this book... hoped that those in control of the which is being published under the.
ordinary wire guard and a fender. have learned to wear shirts, to beg, and habits of their country are no longer be ignored. It is to be
lle, steal and prostitute themselves signs of peasant backwardness." BLAZING HANDKERCHIEF
"The Balinese will be, to the When Miss Milne, an. attractive tourists. guides, chauffeurs and bell blonde, said that she severely boys to be tipped, dancers on salary, reprimanded the boy, Mr. Justice curic-dealers, and tropical beauties Charles remarked: "I suppose if to be photographed blouseless for a you, try you can look cross. Į am rather surprised to hear itti
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closed society. He describes the rites and the festivals, the com- plicated plays, and the "Tegong" and other dances.
He has illustrated the book with
to satisfy new needs, the tourists Mr. Covarrubias also accuses the island's future will ace that, pro- title of "Island of Ball" by the Miss Barbara Milne, formerly & will continue to come to Ball to see missionaries of interfering with the gress comes to the Balinese natur- house of Cassell, a mass of varied Junior mistress at the School, said the sights, snapping pictures fran-natural culture of the Balinese.ally and gradually and that they information of the social habits of that on one occasion she saw the tically, dashing from temple to Their presence, he says, at different shall be permited to decide for them-the Balinese, and their highly de boy holding a blazing handkerchief temple, back to the hotel for meals, periods over a number of years has selves what they want to absorb centralised communities, every vil which she had given to a little and on to watch rites and dances aroused bitter controversy and without losing their essential quali lage forming itself into almost a girl. She could not think how he staged for them.
ties, and becoming another vanish- got it alight,
"Ball is certainly not the place,ing race of coolies.". he adds, "where missionaries could
BOOK ON BALI improve in any way the moral and physical standards of the people. Covarrubias has paid two long The little island is still one of those visits to the island, with a two- numerous drawings and paintings amazing nations that we shall year period intervening, and he of the Balinese and their customs YOUNGER GENERATION -- never know again, in which the found the changes so noticeable on "The younger generation are daily life, society, arts and religion his return that he decided to "col- and homes, and added a portfolio of was having a meal in the sick rapidly being cut off from a cultural form a united whole that cannot lect in one volume all that could be photograplis taken by Rose Covar- room, and when he was left for a environment which they have be separated into its component obtained from personal experience
Miguel Covarrubias became moment she heard screams and learned to regard as below them. parts without disrupting it, whereby an unscientific artist, of a ifying saw him in flames at the top of They have become conscious of the spiritual values dictate the mode of culture that a doomed to dis-famous for the striking caricatures appear under the merciless on which he drew for the well-known the stairs, Bhe snatched an overall, contempt of Europeans for native living. put out the flames, gave first aid, cultures and have been influenced "Unfortunate as it is, the power | slaught of modern commercialism but now defunct American maga-
zine, "Vanity Fair." and telephoned for a doctor. to believe that the philosophy, arts, lot our civiliation to penetrate.can, and standardisation.”
Miss Watson said that the boy
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