New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-01
JEWELS AND JEWEL BUYERS.

1t is all very well for the ladies of The Hero
hoH to denOunce the fair owners of diamonds as guilty
Of treason 10 Humanity with large ID and to their SEX
II is also very well for Mr. Alphonso Kari who owns
lovely gardens Nice and has organized capital bou
ouet service between that picturesque watenngplace
and Paris to write clever little books for the purpose OF
showing how much beautiful is budding beauty deco
rated his yOets aud bis roses than decent dOwager
dom glttering with ancestral eHerals anu rauuOhai
Whatever morallsts, or poets or horticutursts may
say or sing however 1t remains Still true mat there are
coors vivid aud 50 glorious on earth as tne eOi1s
OF the gems Of "purest ray serene when are 10 De
ocean but I'm the mines Of Transylvania and Brazil OF
Golconda and Peru The diamond. the emerald, the
ruby the sapphire represent not only the purchasing
mower OF ephemera man. but the chemical genius OF en-
during Nature. II pearl or an opal had no market
peope had aesthetic sense It would stl be true that
pearl OF the oyeiest productions OF tne ocean
mud ar opal the very concentration Of all that the earth
lives by-an incarnate dash and Hush OF electrical
n is an evidence them not Of the permanence Of bar
barsm but of the progress of CIVILIZATION among u.s. tha
the jewelry business OF the Uhed states mas Gneaseu
tionate TO its relative Importance among the AneFoa
since the development the jewery trade has brought
with not merely an Increase OF prices Tor Things OF
great intrinsic and easily appreciable value but also
greatly increased demand for the higher and more ar
tstic forms VI decorative art such an est1pslneIt
this city, would have been all mpossiDty IL Newfork
jeweiry shopin New-York in the days Of Bonfanti
fwho remembers Boufantil meant very much what "a
ewelry shop to-day means IN Chicago or In Philadelphia
Ii meant what VI the best known shops OF thls khd
blazing with mOnstrous inventions IN silver, with gold
watches with diamond palues 1t meant obese candle.
sticks and pethorc teapos ana SAVERS IKE tine she1o
a Crusader. 10 meant bracelets Ilk0 manacles, anu
brooches like breastplates IL meant, in word vulgar
expense and insolent extrayagance-dspay, cost ana
the divinity Of the commonplace iewelry shop suoh
like dear old Fossin. JOaier du Ro IN the Paris or
ls4T starr & Marcus keep their treasure /" In
canoes their gracious intaglos their pearls OF price
their diamonds OF aultless water IN reat quiet Eases
black wandt Bred In the school OF DRESDEN uhder the
Influence OF DnglDger5 miraculous ART ana within the
charmed circle OF the GT1pe GeTOOe, these jewelers. are
not Jewellers only but artists Their canoes the latest
and purest works of Bssnger ther gems selectea MOI
for sze or brute cost much for perfection OF f0r
and color and briliancy; their plate, planned less 10
startle the pOcketnerve than TO enchant the cuNateu
of starr Marcus the real progress OF American CIVIL
zaou The Broadway shops belong, IN measure 10 lhe
past TO the aee opuence Of petroleum ana shoddy and
the ind@riminate eagerness OF CONGREGATION
~ ther luck Upon Jewels fashioned, and
bought, and worn in the service or snch
of their anathema The OF nOserngs and bangles de-
serves all their reprobaton But jewelry as branch OF
the fine arts is quite another matter Jewelry when
deals with the tdcita regina minerdIum as women uei
with tho realms OF FOra-making gold ana silver anu
gems obey like heiotropes, and fuchas, ana splIeus
the graceful fancy OF men-ls no LONGER lneio ~
OF the EARTH like the powers OF the arr 10 save tne sOu
and the IMAGINATION Ii is In this temper that STARR
MARCUS understand the trade 10 quarrel WIN tV
steuee OF such trade, understood Is 10 nhu luie
with the neNtingui5hable instinct Oh tne ~
the human heart Far better ana wiser Is IT, IN in
our humble Judgment, 10 submit oues SCI. " tno
oc o facts and TO endeavor from study OF these eN
oute and attractive results OF the love OF ornament Ia
men, 20 get at some phOsophle comprehension ol tho
MARI which the love Of ornament nuch nave pteh Ore
Lii designed TO play in the development Of human oif
iizaiion aud human progress.-lThe World