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ENGLAND.

"Worthy of Admiration and Respect."

"England is a Republic with a Manarob at its head,” declares Dr. Alfred Kerr, ons of Germany's best-known literary den, whose opinion that "There is not an ugly woman in London," way quoted the other dag.

Since than Dr. Kerr bas toured England very thoroughly, and lo the Berliner Tageblatt yummarises his conclusions Writing in staccato style that is quite his own, be describes us thus re

An objective people. Only exceptional to this in one paint. They regard themselves as the chosen people. They think. guilelesels, soargthing like, this: "Wa Englishmen bare bred, the beat, bors, the best dogs. Why should not we ourselves be the chosen rice?" With the quiet side thought: "All people come to us They imilato us. The New World sprang from this island. WO STO the model. Well, these are some of the attributes of a chosenD IRON.” They might have woll added:

domination "Our world

has endured longer than that of nor Roman."

This little irony apart, Dr. Kerr found much for admiration, and bardly anything for criticism.

A comfortable people. Eng land signifie a place where the folk are well taken care of. Far. destructive element. By this I mean no weak-minded, pernicians roughs dragging their Fatherland

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, ··10, 1922.

BIGH COLLARS À VOGUE

between It seems quite matter of

agreomant designers that the cost you buy for autuma may be either a rough-and-ready steamer rug affair in large plaid or a suavely beautful thing of velvet trimmed in expensive furs -bot that if it has a high caller it will be indisputably of the higher circles of fashion.

Among the sleeves used are many with slide shoulders and dropped armholes,

iate the mud by senseless, brutal [THE ROMANOFF CROWN silty big diamonds in it Another

murders.

Every earlier stay in England

Now,

ful Jewels.

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gave me the impression of ms Description of Its Wonder tority, decency, order, realism. Worthy of admiration again. was I grateful and filled with respect Again one finds England's people friendly, dis tinguished, skillel. modest. serious.

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I have forgotten the lack of music: These energetic brains produes bad melodieet Very well. Yet they have created a whole poetry of the home. And base made their island music in itself. (Outside Birmingham!)

crown of Catherine's contains 1,933 diamonds, weighing 437

A diadem of the Dowager Em-

press contains a double row of Just what will become of the peeris resembling birds" egys, in Rassian Crown jewels valued size, weighing almost 3,000 carats $500,000,000 and held by the in the aggrexate with 700 carats Bolshevist rulers, is one of ton of diamonds to add their brilliance questions that is attracting con- the smooth paleness of the siderable speculation, but elicit pearls. ing no answer, throughout the world today.

The first photograph ever takeo

CROWN OF THE EXPRESS ELIZABETHL

The crown of the Empress of the entire collection of jewels Elizabeth, daughter of Pater the of the ill-starred Romanoff's ap-Great, worn by the late Czarina peared recantly in the pictorial at her coronation, contains one the Philadelphia buge rose diamond weighing 125) Dr. Kerr thinks, however, that ection of

The photograph carats. Above it is a row of dis- the nation which be furtherdas | Pichfic Ledger. igustes LA "the best-ordered, was taken in a room in which monds the size of a finger nail and the most solidly comfortable, formerly sat one of the Moscow below are pear-shaped. diamond the oldest established in law courts. Besmocked peasant pendants. Another disdem in aff Europe," has reached the turn-guards, the Soviet treasure fundlanial leaves, the centre ornament! administrators and Farberger, the being an oval diamond an inch) ing point.

French jewel expert who made the and a half long sat beneath Asserting that for centurise official valuation of the collection, round brilliant of twenty carats. England had the greatest jo-

A gold ball used formerly in Duence in the ordering of the are shown grouped around the

table where repose treasures ceremonies of state is six inches continues: But world, he Role Britannia' has become whose value dwarfs the tradition in diameter and sarmoanted by doubtful to-day. To whom he wealth of Croesus, and carries a sapphire weighing 100 carats one's imagination back to the supporting a diamond cross, the believes the sceptre is passing he days when fairy tales seemed stones in which weigh 173 carats. makes clear in the following real.

One necklace made of, eleven

passage:

One single item, a jewelled coal, uncut emeralds an itch long is in In Europe's need the difference is valued alone at $100,000,000 setting of pendant diamonds. between England and America is In its original form it was a coat Each emerald weighed from this: America will not (tempor-pocket made for Paul I when be twenty to forty-five estats.

Besides

pearls Topes of arily) halp. England canoo was twelve years old. It contain

diamonds, jewelled Ecco. The best-ordered people?ed at that time the astonuding and

The "best fatured" penumber of 13.000 jewels aggregat ornaments, stomachara, collars bracelets there RTO ple are on the banks of the Huding 3,000 carats. Now it contains and son. There, there, there will one 22,000 diamonds aggregating 5,000 brooches galore. Ons is rande of day fall the succession. It bascarats. It is made of Cossack style. light green aquamarine the siz begun at this moment.

A scepter. shown in diagonal of the palm of the band and

bears

pale blue aq0s. the famous another of a Lest we might find a sting in position. that prophecy, Dr. Kerr adds-diamond presented to Catherine marine. Both are surrounded by and makes the sentence a chap-II by Prince Orloff as a concilie- diamonds. The blue stone weighs ter in itself Yet that is only 10ry gift. It is believed by many more than 1,000 carats. Its value! matter of the son replacing the experts to be the Grand Mogul of cannot be computed, as there Bra mother."

tradition.or.a part of that famous not known to be any other stones stone. The Orlof diamond was like it of a size approximating it.

A jewelled fan at the right of stolen by French soldier from the eye of an idol in « Brahmin the picture shows the only knowa KRYPTOK LENSES

temple and w sold to Prince painting of the palace of Alex. are the most perfect double focus Orloff for approximately ballaander I, which was later destroy- glasses for both reading and million dollars. It weighs 1944 ed. distant. In the ordinary bifocal carats.

THE UNCUT BALAI RUBY.

lens, the segment or part for road. But as great as is the Orloff,

LITTLE KNOWN OF JEWELS' HISTORY. Much of the history of the

ing is cemented to the distant it is but one among many other origin of many of the jewels is lene, raising the segment above famous jewels shown in the lost in the mists of antiquity. recent the surface of the main lens. The segment and the line of union are photograph. Among the many Even some of the more

crowns shown in the photograph acquisitions carry little faforg always more or less noticeable. the one in the centre on the raised tion with them. The Runn never allowed In Kryptok lens, no cement is dais was worn by the last Czar. royal family electrically fused in a depression in the main lens, while the whole although made for Catherine If photographs to be made of them and containing the great ancut or placed them on exhibition. lens is ground smooth on both Balai ruby, weighing 389 carats. Some of them are traced through sides to the desired focas. brought from Feking in the thair appearance on CanTEJOS Kryptok lenses of any prescrip seventeenth century. The set-painted of former molera. tion in either regular of Toricting is said to be so arranged There is considerable evidence! form are manufactured by The that the Shah diamond, one that the royal family itself knew Hongkong Optical Co., successore of the wonders of the jewel not very much of their jewels. to Clark & Co. Optical Prescrip-world, could be attached to it For 100 years after the acquisi- tige Specialists, located in 53. when desired.

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The Shah diamond is uncut it lay forgotten in the cellar of of the and unpolished, an inch and the imperial palace quarter long, and resembling Kremlin in Moscow. the cut-glass stopper of a decan- Ramours have been rife con- ter. Although uncut in the usual cerning the Romanoff jewels meaning of the word, it is en-since the Bolshevist regime WES graved with Arabic letters sald to instituted. The photograph offere datel ok 1,000 years Formerly concrete'proof that the greatest | it burg on a cord before the Pea-part of the collection remsios cock throne of Akbar the Great, intact. Emperor of all-India..

WAY DOWN EAST

Bat even, without the Balsi raby and the Shab diamond. Catherine's crown boasts norival in the world. There are la it twelve rose diamonds 'averaging thirty carats andh: In all there are

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