LOST GEMS by Homiletic Review

Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Jun 13, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 24.

LOST GEMS.

By Homiletic Review

THE Manufacturing Jeweler, a magazine devoted to jewelry, declares that more than two million dollars' worth of jewels are lost every season at American summer resorts. That so much more jewelry is lost in the summer than during the winter, is due to the foolish display which is made of such valuables on hotel piazzas, the sands, and even in the ocean itself. The bathers at the fashionable resorts often indulge in a caprice of appearing in the water wearing several thousand dollars' worth of diamonds. The chances of losing these trinkets while exercising, or while lying about on the beach, are, of course, very great. It is a notable fact that more people lose the priceless jewels of character in their hours of amusement and recreation than while engaged in the serious work of life. There is no time when a man or a woman should be so careful of the consistency of conduct as in the hours of relaxation.