Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 120, 31 March 1919 — Page 5

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

By TESTED RECIPES. Casserole of Rice and Meat Line an oiled baking dish with cooked rice and 111 center with chopped cold meat. Season with salt pepper, onion Juice and moisten with the stock. Cover meat with rice, put on lid and steam for one-half hour. Serve on platter, surrounded with tomato sauce or brown gravy. Endive Salad Cut endive very Ine, slice thinly over top one onion, and add Bait and pepper. Beat one egg, add two tablespoons sugar and three of vinegar. Beat together before adding od cup cold water. Put one tablespon bacon fat in pan; add mixture and stir until it boils. Pour over the endice and serve at once. Banana Whip Peel and mash three bananas; add strained Juice of one lemon and one cup sugar. Mix one and one-half tablespoon gelatine with one-half cup cold water and add two cups boiling water. Combine mixtures and beat over Ice until creamy. Pour into a wet mold and turn out when firm. Serve with whipped cream. Peach Salad Four halves of canned peaches, lettuce. Fill the hollows of peaches with cocoanut Arrange on lettuce hearts. Pour over the dressing. Maple Dressing Three tablesRnnnna nstat nil throo toKUi.nAn..

HEART AND BEAUTY PROBLEMS

By Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson

Dear Mrs. Thompson: Last spring I was going with a young man who was drafted and had to go to camp. Before be left he asked to kiss me good-bye, and I let him. A few months later he came back on furlough and said he would not see me again before going to France. He seemed to love me very much, and before we parted he asked me to marry him if he came back alive and uninjured. I thought I loved him and I said I would. We have corresponded regularly since ho has been away. He is waiting impatiently to get back so that he can work hard and earn enough money so that we can marry. While he ha3 been away I have been going with another young man. He was rejected from the army because of a weak heart. I know I love him and cannot bear the thought of marrying the soldier. TEae

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thick maple syrup. Beat together until frothy. Serve at once. HOW TO COOK POTATOES. Stuffed Potatoes en Surprise Bake potatoes as usual. Cut a thin slice from one side. Remove the center of the potato, taking care not to break the shell. Mash well, season with salt and paprika, add a small piece of butter or drippings and enough hot milk to make them creamy. Beat with a silver fork until light. Half fill the shells with the mashed potato. Next add a few hot left over peas, hot creamed chicken or fish, hot left over meats minced and well seasoned, grated cheese or peanut butter. Add the remainder of the mashed potato Return to the oven to reheat and to brown them on top. Broiled Potatoes Prepare medium sized potatoes as for baking. Place j on the broiler far enough from the J flame not to be touched. After twenty minutes they should be turned so as to bake evenly on both sides. An advantage of this method is that the same heat used for preparing the dinner may be used without taking up valuable oven space. Franconla Potatoes Pare potatoes and parboil for ten minutes in boiling salted water. Place in pan in which meat is roasting, bake until soft, basting with fat in pan when basting the meat. Bake about forty minutes. Sweet potatoes may be prepared in tho same way. What shall I do? It seems terrible to tell the soldier that I cannot marry him. Should I sacrifice myself and go pretending that I care for him when I do not? MARGARET. It Beem to be "out of sight, out of mind" with you. Perhaps when the soldier returns you will find the same warmth in your regard for him that you feit before he went away. If I were you I would wait until his return before telling him that you no longer love him. If, upon seeing him again, you know you cannot love him, tell him so. The truth will hurt for a time, but then he will take an interest in some other girl and learn to forget you. Dear Mrs. Thompson: I married a man from out of town who took me away to live. I was so homesick I thought I could not stand it and so I

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begged him to let me come home forf

a visit. After I had been here several weeks he came down to surprise me , and to take me back with him. I was not prepared to go at the time and , so I refused. . ; After that I did not get letters from ! him. I was so worried that I wrote . his chum. The chum told me he had enlisted because he knew I no longer f loved him. I I have not received an money from him and have been compelled to go to work. I ' found out from the Red Cross where be was and so I wrote him a letter. j Now I have received one from him. It was very cold and simply told me some of the experiences he has had : since he left me. I asked him what ' he intended to do upon his return ; about our living together, and he sim-j ply ignored the question. I know now that I love him and it seems to me I can't give him up. Do , you think he would have been so cold ! if he still lived me He did not men-

tion love and he signed himself "sincerely." What do you think of this? G. M. G. You made a mistake in leaving your husband for so long a time. It is no

wonder he got tired of waiting for you. j After a girl marries her duty is with . her husband regardless of the fact ! that k!i Riiffprs frnm homesickness at'

times. Your husband's letter Indicated nothing. Perhaps he thinks that too much eagerness on his part would make you less anxious to return to

him. He is giving you a taste of in-! difference. Probably when he returns j he will 50 to you and see what can 1 be done to adjust matters. j

Consider his feelings this time and forget yourself.

Pershing, Ind. Mrs. Edna Ohmit and daughter Maxine, spent Sunday with friends in Connersville Mrs. A. E. Ehle spent Friday in Richmond Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brewer, Miss Hazel Gipe, Mrs. Frank Gipe and Mrs. O. F. Jamieson motored to Richmond last Tuesday. ....Mr. and Mrs. Louis Harris of Michigan, are spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. James Laws... Mrs. Louis Rusk is spending the week with Charles Rusk and family of Milton. Mrs. William Boughner spent Friday in Richmond.. .Mrs. William Taylor and daughter spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Omer Hurst of Cambridge City... Mrs. J. B. Lamm spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. James Ridenour of Centerville.

MISS WILLIAMSON BURIED WINCHESTER, Ind., March 31. ; Miss Merl Williamson, 28, who died in I a hospital at Cincinnati from influ- j enza was buried here, Wednesday. 1 Her father was former postmaster of this city. She was reared in Hart-: ford City, but often visited here, j where she had many friends.

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An Authoritative Statement on the Diamond Situation Presented by Jenkins & Co., Richmond Diamond Merchants

Conditions in the diamond trade of this country are unusual. In fact, the demand for goods has erroneously been described in some quarters as hysterical and the position of the diamond importer and cutter is not a happy one despite the fact that never in the history of the trade has he experienced such a demand for all kinds of diamonds as he does now. To sum up the situation in a nutshell, the demand for diamonds, not only in this country, but all over the world, has gotten so far ahead of the supply that the stocks of importers and cutters have become exhausted and the orders of their customers cannot be filled in full no matter how urgent the demand made by the customer, nor how desirous the importer or cutter is of satisfying it. Some time ago the scarcity of goods began to be apparent but for a while it was confined to small sizes or particular kinds of goods; but the condition instead of getting better has grown worse until now practically all lines and all sizes of goods are out of the market as far as stocks of the big houses in New York who supply the same are concerned. The condition, while primarily due to the general prosperity of this country and the demand for diamonds from jewelers of all classes, is aggravated by the fact that shipments from Europe have been fewer in comparison to the demand ; that rough is scarcer than it has been for some time, and that even the production of the South - African mines has been affected not only by the policy inaugurated by the De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., to conserve the output, but by physical conditions in South Africa, such as the outbreak of influenza among the workers some time ago that had a serious effect upon the output arranged for. But coupled with all this there comes news from Europe to the effect that the sales of diamonds and gems in the big European countries is unprecedented. The demand in England and France is particularly great, but particularly in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Switzerland, and even in Germany and Russia, sales of diamonds are reported to be increasing all the time, and there is an absorption of these gems totally out of proportion with what should be the normal demand under the present business conditions. Whether this is due to the fact that despite the war the workers in these countries have made more money than usual, or whether it is in greater part due to the fact that people with wealth in those countries are trying to put their Vnoney into gems which are easily hidden, carried away and convertible into money in other parts of the world, is a question about which there may be some discussion ; but whatever it is, the condition is there. With a circumscribed output of rough, Europe is buying diamonds as never before at the same time the American public are calling for the greatest amount of gems that have ever been asked for from importers and cutters. From some wholesale and retail jewelers who are not in touch with the situation in New York have come complaints to the effect that their orders were ignored or their demands for goods from the houses which they regularly buy from were not acceded to. Some people felt they were personally discrim

Notwithstanding the constantly advancing prices of Diamonds, you will find that you can always buy to a little advantage at Jenkins & Co. than elsewhere. Further that we can show you the Diamond that you would like to wear or give, and at the right price. Your purchase of a Diamond in our store must be made with full reliance on our integrity and on our ability to judge the Diamond as to its value and to so advise you intelligently and faithfully. We offer every guarantee that a reasonable buyer can ask or a responsible house can gve. It is back of every Diamond we sell from the simplest to the greatest Our responsibility is your positive safeguard and security.

MARCH 31, 1919.

for the Trade and Not "Profiteering" inated against and could not understand the reason, while some even thought that there was an attempt on the part of the importer to hold out for higher prices. However, such a supposition is absurd because an investigation of conditions in the trade shows that all the larger houses have been taking especial pains to discriminate in favor of no one of their regular customers over another but have been using every effort to be fair by apportioning the goods as they came in among customers, in as equitable a manner as possible. What is more, none of the reputable houses have used the occasion for "profiteering" despite the fact that here and there offers of extra prices and bonuses have constantly been made by people who wished to get certain goods within a certain time. Such a condition could not help but cause a jump in prices in a few instances among small dealers who were willing to take advantage of the opportunities offered, but taking the trade as a whole the question of price of goods has been no factor either with importer or with customer. The trouble of the former has been purely in the allotment of such gems as he received to the customers who needed them most. As a representative of one large cutting house put the situation to Jenkins & Company last week, "Never in my entire career in the diamond trade have I seen conditions such as they are today. It is due wholly to the fact that probably for the first time in history the demand for diamonds is so far ahead of the supply in sight that it will be a long time before we catch up to normal conditions again. There are practically no diamonds in stock in the country. The stocks have been absorbed and there is no chance to recoup because as fast as gems come in they are taken up. "As far as we are concerned, we thought we had prepared for tho conditions and had one of the largest shipments of rough we ever brought in some months ago, but this has been snapped up as fast as it has been cut, and today we have not in stock 40 per cent of the amount of good3 that we usually feel is necessary to carry at this season of the year." When asked about the report published in one of the New York papers that $10,000,000. worth of gems could be quickly absorbed, he said, "There is no doubt about it ; it would not take any more than the large houses to take up these gems to fill up their stocks. Even then if we refused to make any further sales, the orders that we have on hand would keep us busy for a long time." "No," he answered, "the importers are not attempting to take advantage of the situation, they are trying to conserve the jewelry trade as a whole. Why, we have not had a single shipment of goods (and we have had several) that we could not have sold at a profit without going out to our customers at all by simply allowing them to be sold to other dealers in this building but that is not business. What we are trying to do, and what others are trying to do, is to see that such goods are equitably distributed to all parts of the country and that the customers who have stood by us in the past when the market was not active will get proper consideration in their needs today."

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n 0 3 3 At the office of a third large firm the conditions outlined above were confirmed and even amplified, and the tribulations of the diamond importer emphasized by the recital of the experience of their own and other houses who were receiving goods in small quantities together. Said the head of this firm, "Every shipment of goods that we receive is practically sold before it is opened, but despite this fact customers who come to our office (and many out-of-town jewelers have come to New York for the purpose of seeing why they cannot get their demands attended to) are insisting whenever they know of a shipment coming in that we turn the whole lot over to them. We have had to refuse some of our best friends who were willing to purchase all or part of the shipments at any price and on any terms and who could not see that it was unfair to discriminate aganst some customers for the benefit of another. "Of course, we and other houses have had to turn down cash offers for goods from firms who were not our regular customers, offers on which we could have made a remarkably good profit, but the people who made then had not dealt with us in the past and simply came to us because the houses through whom they usually bought were denuded of the goods. "You would be surprised to know the offers we have had from other importers the moment they knew that a shipment had been received, and in many instances this was no - case of hoggishness on part of the importer, but simply an attempt by him to buy at a premium goods which he knew his customers had to have to carry on their business. Of course, we have to look out for our own customers first, but even with all we are doing the jeweler doss not seem to understand fully why he is getting so little or why he can only get part of his orders filled. "This condition in no way applies to goods of any kind or any size. We can sell everything from the smallest to the largest that we get to our own customers without solicitation and still be 'in bad' with a lot of them because we cannot meet their needs. It is a time that tries the patience of every man who wants to be fair and do the right thing by those who have helped him in past years, and we can understand also that it is equally trying to the patience of the wholesaler and retailer who has the demand for the stones from his customers and cannot fill them." The same story in greater or less degree, and with different variations, was told at a large number of other offices in the diamond trade, at all of which places it was pointed . out that the only thing to do was for all to be patient until the increased goods or decreased demand tended to alleviate the present conditions. It was also pointed out that the inability to get diamonds, particularly small diamonds, might have a serious effect upon the manufacturer of platinum and other jewelry as the manufacturers thereof could not get what they needed to complete the pieces. Whether or not this will have an effect on jewelry designs and tend to increase the amount of ornamentation and decrease the amount of stones used,, was not a subject on which any of , the dealers care to venture a prediction at the present time. I H 3 m H

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