Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-05
ANIMALS IN JEWELRY

ANIMALS In EWELhx.
Firetsies of Fables, ,ctth Wings Of Dsa-
m.ends Elephants and Tadposes IN
Gold.
New York SUM-
81 saw something the other night that
l shall not soon forget-a bevy of young
girls wearing firefies in their hair. AS
they moved about in the dimly-lighted
corridor, playing some girlhood game,
know not what, their living jewels flash
ed and cleaned as never diamond did"
"Oh," said jeweler in one of the
fashionable avenues up town, when his
attention was called to the above clipping
from the San Francisco "Chronicle,"
"nature is not going to Guido us in pro-
viding ornament Look at this"
He pulled open safe door, took out a
rosewood box lined with purple velvet,
and sald sThere are fireflies that don't
die The imitation is good, is it not?
They are formed of deep red rubies, with
wings of diamonds The ear jewels are
fastened close on to the pink lobe of the
ear, and make it look smaller and whittier.
This larger one is worn at the neck, sus-
pended from chain not thicker than a
though it holds the ornament safe in its
position. Cuban women make their CO.'S
tunes Respondent with firefles inclosed
in gauze bags and sewed about their
fiounces. 1t is familiar sight
in the tropics. If we only knew
what food to give fireflies, we
could easily make silver gauze globular
cage to hold them, and attach it to a
hairpin or to cham. We get a beetle
that we bind with gold chain, and keep
it alive for months: and the Brazilian
beetle is used for mounting
"What other ornaments are made in
the shape of animals9"
swell, men like pig of gold, Or an
elephant or camel Some young men
about town, through desire, perhaps,
to have handy "a mirror to hold up to ma
ture,' are fond Of gold donkey. Liter
airy men and lawyers like the owl for a
scarfpin or watch charm"
"What is the popular animal now with
ladies for an ornament"
s'An Egyptian cat. [ don't see any
difference between it and the cats of
South Fifth avenue, but it wouldn't be
popular if it was called anything but an
Egyptian cat. At any rate it is not a
pretty cat, for it has blue green eyes sug-
gestiye of suspicion as they CLEAN out of
the gold or silver head. Lizards and
snakes continue popular for bracelets and
necklaces. We have just finished a circlet
at the cost Of 800 for the tiny waist Of
Miss -. 1t is snake of pliable gold
enameied in green and having emerald
eyes. It was a present to her from her
fiancee, and at his wish. not ours, we put
two curled needles in the snakes
mouth to represent the fangs. In
olden times men were assassinated
by Judases, who wore ring with pois-
oned claw IN it, and when the Wearer
shook hands with his enemy he could by
a deXterous movement, scratch his palm
with the poisoned claw and produce
speedy death. [ don't mean to intimate
fangs Of that golden snake in poison, but
there seemed a sinister design in putting
those needles into the snakes mouth. for
if an arm should stray around that waist
it would be apt to be drawn quickly
asider
''Do brokers want bulls and bears?''
eyes, every time. We have sold many
Assyrian bulls made of gold. Ladies buy
InemfO lace pms. a guest at the van
derbllt reception told me he saw jew
eled lizard encircling a coil Of hair on
the head of a leader in fashion. You
cannot guess the most fashionable ami
NAL in jewelry now"
"A pea fowl"
ono. It's tadpole. Well. it's ugly
enough, to be sure, in nature, but beau
tiful in gold Or silver, with jewels. Craw-
fish admit of much careful work on the
goldsmith's part. A lady customer was
examining tadpole recently, and the
casual remark was made that according
to the evolutionists it was the image Of
the ancestor of man.
eyes, she said, lifting her eyebrows,
Il sometimes think with the learned gen.
tlemen that men descended from one. but
women neveri'''