Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — Senseless Display. [ARTICLE]

Senseless Display.

When diamond aigrets are used as bonnet pins and gemmed and enameled watches are flimsily and ostentatiously fastened on bodices, it is not strange that thieves should find occupation among the tens of thousands that flock to the Fair daily. If good taste—that necessarily revolts against a needless display of costly ornaments in such places—will not induce women to leave jewels at home and to wear watches less obtrusively, conscience ought to have some weight with them. Many a thief has been made so by opportunity. It is tempting the weak to carry expensive gems where a little stratagem is all that is required to seiae and conceal them. It is putting a premium on dishonesty to parade bijouterie in a manner tq make employment of detectives necessary, where simplicity of dress would be at once more dignified and less dangerous.—Chicago Herald.