SICK JEWELS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17238, 19 April 1930, Page 13

SICK JEWELS

UNDER SURGEON'S KNIFE

PEARLS SENT TO HOSPITAL

LONDON, Feb. 25

There is a hospital in London whose patients are insured for nearly half a million pounds. They do not arrive in ambulances. Instead", shabbily-dressed men bring them in, wry often" loose in their yaistcoat pockeis. It is the. estafjlishnjient of the Healer ,of Sicjfc Pearls jn garden. E.G.— the street that hides an Ala'chjln's cava of jewels behind a frontage ",pf prosaic offices.

When I visited the healer I saw peai'jLs in all stages of disease. Rheumatic ones, thaf had grown thin and shrunken from senile decay. Pearls wliflso eowpjexioas had f#st their virginal bloom from an ' ovejrdqse. o| cosmetics. Pearls with fatty degeneration- Pearls that wero fair outside until the surgeon's knife reyeakd were rotten at the core. Pearls" that had unsightly wayts on . the smooth curves of their skiris. Pearls that were cracjksd a»d blistered, reddened with rouge or "palljfl ,\vith po,w«r. Pearls whose skins had lost the sheen and lustre of health.

LETTING THE POISONS IN

Once a pearl has been drilled for threading in a necklace, Us delicate interior is an easy prey for every kind of chemical poison.' Before then, its layer is ah unpenetrable as an agate j but once that'has been broken, it

may absorb s{sss&s 'fjf j?§ M n( * s the' skin of m.ys&fflk :'■■■' ■ ■:?'£??% '"-• "Cold cream anfT<wJb ; make it diril apg greasjrpowder destroy jis B sl as a rheumatic sjfcin profiles eat \i~sßs , f And the friction ot t'U thread_ years it dojjm originaL weight is lost. '•■' t '^ |l »• That is where the heajer, v He strips tf» peari.-jusf "js.* shell a hard-bpiiqd egg, and leaves-it •he is lucky—ai clean}" neath. But like a..surgeon/ certain what pis incision -is pgjg <,o reveal within. An outer once perfect in color m 4 *r*\v correeal a less. . It,is.a 'gjsyp»pjs.,, ~.,.;■ ""-.i-ys;*'*£-«*». ,*■.',,• Sorn'etimes; \jrfl,eu & greasy '■ instead of smgyry Tiie 4tV»sMsf i<s bated on hlottM' 1' lkish bath ujjtijf '|fcj* «s«** ■*& .*% soib.c*d.' Or iwtjjg.pse ,-jI , " vaJjfiSfcl» store* it may -he u$ *l|hw«'Holtit light before the dn>"siv s'tp .ifJSkitfning" it is decided upon.* ' ■" JESS'S It is no' small- responsiblliiy>4oHjiiWßß the 'weight'".of >a"• ; pelirl,' F by;:3o,;fis*Sflfr£> which is the usual'loss in suofr» J ie^C UUf a-,vjoJct li&h.t Jias gfitiuf ss}s£■» ihf jjpafl. whft w & of ths. WM99&tiP rays turn blue. Indian those 'from K# South Seas yellow. ;?