Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1904 — How to Know a Diamond. [ARTICLE]

How to Know a Diamond.

A small Reading, Pa., girl, whose love of finery is very pronounced, was tireless in her importunities for a ring. The latter finally brought their complete reward In the form of a pretentious gew-gaw. A caller several days later, with the aid of the little one, noticed the acquisition, nnd remarked: “What a pretty ring; is it a diamond?” “We!!, I guess it ought to he,” replied its possessor. Indignantly. “It cost 75 cents.”