Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — First Aid to Marriage. [ARTICLE]

First Aid to Marriage.

Of what use is a diamond, anyway? Conservationists who are for cutting out all extravagance during the war are asking the question, says the Kansas CH ty. Star. The answer, based upon statistics furnished by jewelers, seems to be that the diamond Is most valuable as an aid to marriage. It is said that the tradfe, in diamonds goes up or down In ratio with Increasing or decreasing numbers of marriages. This Is because the diamond Is used so much as the setting in engagement rings,~>- * Last year the United States imported $34,000,000 worth of diamonds, an Increase of 70 per cent: over 1915 and 110 per cent over 1914. Looking into this startling growth; of the diamond trade it was discovered that, according to leading importers, "every girl expects a real diamond In pledge Of plighted troth these days, and the growth of that coupled with good times and an increase in the number of marriages, accounts for it."