The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1919, Page 16

| @rmament for her $150, ren me _ THURSDAY, em T. cs $7,000,000 i Around. By Zoe Coprright, 1019, by The I'vese BEE Five yeers ® fair one. ‘To-day 0 fine one- diamond costs at a good nh are for them. Any- ®& one-carat stone that ‘twenty years ago can ‘M to a dealer to-day quicker than for four times that. It but ‘Worelga firms used to have rather in the cutting and polish- ing of precious stones. With the 5 zene of Dutch and Bel- gian workmen who set up little ; and now there are 25 oF running flourishing pol- factories. They should turn ‘The Custom House figures on im- TALENT WORTH RETAINING. WO women in the audience at a movie theatre appeared to take more than a passing in- terest in the news review that was ; being screened, The particular event that seemed to grip their at- tention showed Uncle Sam's sailor boys vigorously scrubbing down JULY 24, ‘| quaintance with pradtheally every de- 1919 n Diamonds, New York’s Monthly Import, _ Breaks all Former Records Has Greatest Craze for Diamonds in Its History—Stones Can Not Be Obtained Fast Enough to Satisfy Demand—“Waiting Lists’’ of Customers Keep Dealers Actually Dodging Sales, for There Will Not Be Diamonds Enough to Go Beckley Co, (The New York Brening Wortd). IAMONDS are pouring into the port of New York at the glittering rate of $7,000,000. worth @ month. Diamond dealers tell us their customers are literally standing in line for a chance to buy Maria that pendant she has dreamed of for thirty years, and to select a worthy gem for Dearest-in-the-World, who has just sald “Yes.” of jewels, which is even worse than the hoist in house “rent and the boost in beef and beans. Jewel merchants never saw anything like it, And wh ment is sighted off Sandy Hook, all Maiden Lane moves down to the Custom House with check book in one hand and shopping bag in the other. “Fast as they are coming,” said Mr. Blank of Blank & Sons, of 15-17-19 Maiden Lane, who won't let me use their name although (or because) they are the biggest This despite the rise in the cost er @'consign- “they will not nearly go round. about 100 carats of diamonds a week, and parce) them out to a stand yammering for ten times that. ports of diamonds for the month May this year are; “ $5,562,827 1,719,404 $7,282,281 ‘Theve figures will jutnp each month keeping pace with the foreign buyers who leaped abroad from every firm in Maiden Lane the first moment Passports could be got. By the way, Mr. Blank says it takes a whole year for the average diamond to get out of its mine and onto your finger, 90 long is the process of freeing it from the rock, transporting, cutting, pol- ishing and marketing it. ‘ While diamonds are the most desired of gems by the greatest number of hu- man beings, the wealthier and more Ngtisoney” demand pearis és well. No- body whi 'is anybody in tie society columns néwadays but must have her “string.” Pearls are rarer and costlier than diamonds to-day,.The great fisheries of Ceyton ara nepriy worked out, apd perhaps half the pearls of Mifady Minions to-day reset gems once possessed by East Indian ‘habobs wiio have fotind it profitable to cash in their historied treasures. A well informed dolilir in pearls, in this year, 1919, had!& personal ac- sirable pearl in the world. Its name, address, complexion;;and telephone number are listed jn his book, and when he has an onfer he starts a pursuit which somgtimes leads bim half around the earth. Recently a noted jeweler of New York and Paris collected a string of pearls valued at $1,200,000, and be- fore the thing was fairly made up it was sold at that price to an Amer- ican. This same firm offered $50,000 to a certain Uttle old lady who brought In her pearl necklace to have the clasp repaired, It had cost her husband $3,000 at retail in the early sixties. GP, 6—She kept her treas- ure.) .. A twenty-five-grain pearl of fine quality is worth something between $30,000 and $40,000 and is about as big as the end of your little finger, If your neck measure is thirteen inches and your income $13 per, how long will it take you to save for a rope of pink-white pearls, with a fifteen-diamond clasp and a—what's that? You don’t know where they wet the money to do it? Neither do I. But there are the import figures at the Custom House. And there are those Maiden Lane dealers trying to dodge customers and th fatter and fatter every day. es By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing un (The New York Evening World), IHEIRE has been a great deal of talk going around, for some time now, about “there really being no more old Jadies on earth.” F ‘We have heard it iterated and reite: ated that you can’t tell whether a wom- an is “sweet six- teen” or forty, of voting age or a great - grandmother until she turns around, And while this is perfectly true and perfectly splendid, how about Piven the old men? Nobody seems to have given them a thought! way, are there any? It seems to me there are mighty Precious few of them to be found in the heart of New York City, or any- where else for that matter, Take @ frip out on Long Island, over to New Jersey, or among any of our com- muting sections, the very place where you might expect to find old-fash- joned “gentlemen farmers,” and you wil; have to search a long time to find a real old man, You won't find any bunch of “hay-seeds" there. Nor will you find any one hobbling about complaining of rheumatiem or gout or anything like that. Instead you will find a smooth shaven, clean complexioned, bright-eyed creature, with his shoulders erect and his head held high in the air, driving an auto about at top speed. So the old man is not even to be found in the rural district. To-day he knows how to diet himself and avoids all the complaints of his grandfather; he knows how to shave himself free from microbes and tell-tale white hairs and he knows how to dress. In, the city we find the men past But, Dy the is CX6) ~ middle life arrayed in Palm Beach suits, college boy hats, high-water trousers displaying the latest silk socks and for the life of us we can't tell whether Willie or his father or bis grandfather is walking anead of us. After all, the men have kept pace with the women; they are in the same boat and age has never touched them: It is up to every man and woman to keep young to-day, to sink or swim, and most everyone is swimming along at a rapid speed. Captious people will ask at once the date, forty or sixty? and one had better admit at once that middle age is not a fixed frontier which divides every life into the same size of provinces, but varies with each per- son, Some children are old at fifteen, with precocious talk and weird sol- emn faces, and some men at thirty have the air of fifty. They are stout in body, they amble in their walk, they drop oracular remarks, they en- dure with an effort the galety of youth, There are others who defy time, and put the record of old Father Time to confusion, 1 happen to haye the pleasure of knowing @ real perennial youngster of eighty-two. For one thing, all his friends speak e#bout him by the name ot George, although I hasten to add he is a man of substance and social position, of the finest courtesy, and the most spotless life. A gentleman of the old school, one would say, ex- sept that you must leave out the world “old.” They speak about him by his Christian name because, though they may be men of fifty, The S t ory: By Eleanor Clapp Stuyvesant Square HE comfortable looking, roomy old square between 15th and 17th Streets, Sceond Avenue and Rutherford Place was, as its mame impiies, once a part of the bouwerle or farm of the city's fa- mous Dutch Governor, Peter Stuy- vesant, This farm extended for more than two miles e!ong the Hast River and took in also sections of the pres- the decks. of my boys is on a boat,” said 3 of the women. 4 "That's where my busband is,” the replied, “Is Jim on a boat, too?” "Yes, and 1 sure am giad I saw ture." ent Bowery and Third Avenue, After the English fleet captured New York from the Dutch Stuyve- sant went back to Holland to explain to the authorities there why he had been obliged to surrender the city. Naturally they did not relish the ex- planation that it was chiefly due to their own remissness in providing rifications and guns and ted him in such ». manor on his big farm, where he lived for the remainder of his life. This farm of his was quite a little settlement of itself. The manor house was situated a little south of Stuy- vesant Square, just north of where ole St, Mark’s-in-the-Bouwerie now stands, Besides the house he had. of course barns, granaries and outbuild- ings and at a Uttle distance a small village consisting of a dozen or 80 houses in which lived his farm labor- ers, There was also a blacksmith's shop and a small tavern to look after the many strangers who came on business to the estate, but were not sufficiently high in the social scale to be entertained in the manor, Stuyvesant also built a chapel on his bouwerie in which Hermanus Van Hoboken, after whom Hoboken is sermons to the mombere of the ex- y | Governor's family sitting in the place people in more of honor and the farm humble seats, AS ‘ ver s ES OE NL x BROT the Dutch school master named, preached on Sundays long and dreary of New York Squares When Stuyvesant returned from Holland he brought with him various plants and shrubs to decorate his garden, of which he was very fond, and among these was a pear tree which afterward became famous in the annals of-the city, This tree, planted in 1664 in his large garden, lived and bore fruit for over two hundred years. A tablet on the side ‘of a building at 18th Street and Third Avenue marks the spot where the pear tree stood, Stuyvesant is buried in @ vault under St. Mark's, which was built on the site of Hoboken's old chapel on land given Trinity parish by @ great- grandson of the famous old Dutch- man, Stuyvesant Square itself con- tains no memorials of the old days. St. George's Church on the west side was built in 1845, having moved up Grand-Dad Is a Boy Again For Some Time We’ve Known There Are No More Old Ladies Such as Put on|¥0u May Never Have a Toothache, Your Teeth May Lace Caps at: 60 in Grandmother’s Day— Now We Miss the Old Men, for Grand-Dad Dresses Like Da Like Sonny, and There You Are! George is a boy beside them, a mere youngster, who is hardly entitled ex- cept in formal address to be called “Mr.” By and bye he will grow up and come into his rights; meanwhile it is absurd to think of him as more than & young fellow. He is so smartly dressed, with the flower of the sea- soa in his buttonhole; he has such @ ruddy color through living Nin the open air; his manner is so cheery with a “never so fit in my life,” or “glorious summer weather” that age has absolutely nothing to do with him. This perennial youngster has his representative in literature in Oliver Wendell Holmes, who sang the song of “The Boys” and warns ali worn and withered people out of the room: Has there any oki fellow got mixed with the boys? Lf there has, take him out, without making a noise, Hang the almanac’s cheat, and the catalogue’s spite, Old Time is @ lar, | We're twenty to-night, Then he goes on to tell how one boy is a doctor, and another a judge, and another @ mayor, another a min- ister, another a poet, and so on; but Of course it’s all a joke, for they are only boys. ‘Yes, we're boys, always playing with tongue or with pen, And I sometimes have asked—shall we ever be men? Shall we always be youthful and langhing and gay. ‘Till the last dear companion drops smiling away? Then here's to our boyhood, its gold and its gray. ‘The stare of ite winter, the dows of its May. And when we have done with our life-lasting tove ‘Dear Father, take care of Thy chikiren the boys. With too many of us there is a turning point in life like the water- shed on @ railway journey. For so many years we are climbing up, for @ little run on a level, anti now we are beginning to go down, only be- ginning, but going down. Say at tifty years, if an exact and pedantic reader must have a date. Our body changes about that time, we give up every game except golf or ten- nis, we puff slightly when we hurry to catch a@ train; we do not care to stand for a long time if we can get @ seat, our walk grows more impres- sive and before we know it we are getting old. But to-day we are learn- Ing to elimigate that “turning point” and that is why there are so few old ladies and so few old men. We are learning how to live properly, how to dress youthfully, how to hay hobby and ride it with the same ardor as we rode the one in the nursery, and above all we are learning to know ourselves. We know what we can do and what we cannot do, we neither overdo nor underdo, Perhaps that is why we can’t tell who's ahead of us, a young old woman or a young old man, until they turn around sud- denly and even then they keep us guessing. d,and Dad Dresses THURSDAY, Hospital at Trenton. CHART SHOWING THE 0! SULY 24, 1919 “Watch Your Teeth’’--- Science Blames Them ‘ef For Many Diseases All Appear to Be Sound, but Infected Roots, Which Only X-Ray Can See, Scatter Poison _ Throughout the System, According to Dr. Cot- ton, Medical Director of the New Jersey State RDINARY AND OFTEN DISRE- GARDED DISEASES WHICH HAVE BEEN TRACED TO INFECTED TEETH, ABSCESSES ARE THE H rayed? If you have no radiograph picture of every tooth in your head, then, for all you know to the contrary, the sap- pers and miners of enemy diseases already are at work on your most strongly fortified organs: aE For the latest of medical discoveries is that infected teeth are responsible for many if not all the ijls that flesh is heir to. Cer- tainly the list is imposing—bvladder trouble, kidney trouble, rheumatism, stomach trouble, gastritis, tonsil and neck-gland infections, heart trouble, mental and nervous ailments. All these ailments, according to the doc- tors, are frequently caused by root infection in the mouth: And the worst of it is that your teeth may not hurt you a bit; that you may never have toothache; that you may visit your dentist frequently to keep the first small cavities prop- erly filled; that. he may pronounce your teeth in perfectly sound cond!- tion—and still there may be serious and dangerous infection in one or more of them. Often, in the effort to “gave” teeth, a dentist puts crown or bridge work over infected roots, and thus, unseen and unknown, an abscess may drain a way through the ,bone and tissue until it causes from Beekman Street, where it w organized in 1752, and the Friends’ Meeting House, a little to the south, was erected in 1860, though the so- ‘was established in 4176, q i , Centenary are shree lames % This photograph, used through the courtesy of the, Commission of the Methodist Episcopal | Church, shows, a law office in India. In India thee of lawyers: Bnglish, Indian and a be ae A ® few Eurasians, the great sum , to drum up cases for him. ofthive Indian to commit, perjury ere A Law Office in India In India a lawyer employs an ageut ‘The average fee is about four dollars. An Indian lawyer can get almost any) of his client for cents dh American money, WORST ENEMIES OF MAN, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by The Presse Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). AVE you bad your teeth X-|eerious trouble in the body's weakest® spot. “This type of infection,” Dr. Henry A. Cotton, Medical Director of the New Jersey State Hospital at Tren- ton, says in the August number of Electrical Experimenter, “is what is known as chronic in contradistinotion to an acute infection, and does not cause pain, pus or swelling, and fre- quently no rise in temperature. Hence there are no symptoms which direct the patient's attention to this ocon- dition and often they are amazed when they are told that they have infected teeth and they must have # certain number extracted if they wish to recover from their particular dll~ ness.” Therefore, says Dr. Cotton, any one who has ever had any dentistry done should have his teeth X-rayed at once. The dentist can be fooled, bus not the X-ray. In fact, in his eager« ness to keep his patient's set of teeth intact, the dentist not infrequently preserves teeth with roots which are Uterally the roots of disease and which should be extracted at once, That is one reason why our Spartan forebears had better teeth than we— because when one offended them they plucked jt out, or had the dentist ao 80, instead of spending several bun- dred dollars on bridge and crown work, An infection in the teeth may be transmitted from one person to an- other through a kiss, Therefore the Parent with infected roots may pass the affliction along to his children, and if the latter have infected first teeth which are not promptly re- moved the second set is likely to be affected in the same way. “But how can a bad tooth be the cause of rheumatism or heart dis- ease?” the incredulous may ask. Dr. Cotton has a simple explanation of that. “We have proved conclusively,” he says, “that the infection of the teeth, after years, may spread to other or- gans of the body and cause disease in these remote regions, which dis- * | ease has apparently no relation to the teeth, but, nevertheless, the infected |teeth are directly responsible for the condition, .The bacteria which grow and propagate at the roots of infected teeth must have an outlet, especially if the tooth has been crowned And all means of drainage from the upper part of the tooth is thereby cut off, “Then the bacteria filter through the bone in which the teeth are em- bedded, which bone is microscopi- cally porous, and from there organ- |isms or bacteria gain access to the lymphatic system and migrate to other organs and set up @ secondary focus of infection.” And thus is answered the problem, unexplained until now, of why certain organic diseases have affected cér- tain individuals “out of the blue,” as it were, When 4 serious disease is traced to infeoted teeth, therefore, it is the new- est medical practice to pull out the of- fending teeth first—then treat the disease, which feally is @ secondary symptom of physical disorder, And if you want to keep well and avoid disease, first find out if you have an infected root in your mouth; second, suppress your vanily, pump up your courage and pave the good old for« loops put that tooth where it i wi will i v) oe at ary 4