Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1888-11-23
VALUE OF FINGER-RiNGS
Jewels with Histories Have More Worth
Than Precious stones.

Jewels with Histories Have More Worth
Than Precious stones.
| don't think there is any danger of
the summer time girl wearing rings on
her toes, as the nursery jangle tells
about. but that she does have them on
her fingers can not be doubted. A
quaint ring, one set with curiously-
colored stone, one that belonged to a
famous beauty. or even to a great man,
is valued not only far above rubies, but
quite casts glittering diamond in the
shade. A ring with history is
treasure-it affords something to talk
about, and as it is considered rather
smart to openly express admiration of
ones belongings, it is easy to UNDER
stand the advantage attached to a pecu-
liar ring.
One Young woman is happy in a mar
row band of curiously bright green
enamel set about with diamond stars;
this was picked up in pawnbrokers
shop in St Petersburg. At the begin
ming of the season this was the old
story told about it, but now, as the
young woman has vivid imagination,
she has added TO it's original story, and
says that it was given by the handsome
Orloff to the beautiful blonde Empress
Catharine. She tells q blood-curd-
ling story about it. How he
put it on Catharines finger the night
before she sent him to Siberia, and
how, at the instigation of his rival. the
tiny ring was thrown out of the win
| dow, picked up by a peasant, and after
all this time and many adventures
| flashes from the hand of an American
girl. This little fiction makes the ring
much more interesting and sends me
in a state of rapt admiration at the
GOODNESS with which the young woman
tells this tarradidle.
Another ring is of soft gold and was
made in miners camp in 1S49. 1t is
set with singleruby. The workman
| ship is very rough, but the ring is
decidedly suggestive of the old ones
that We're worn by the Egyptian wom-
en- as symbols of their slavery to one
man. The moonstone is religiously
worn to the races, for, following up
the idea of the Prince of Wales, it is
believed to bring good luck in
gambling. She who is nervous, who
feels that life is only worth living be-
cause of the hope that she may some
day be well, is rapidly getting better
under the influence of beautiful
emerald. Nobody ever does confess to
being annoyed about lover, to doubt
ing his faithfulness or thinking that he
may be growing weary, but the fad for
sapphires seems to suggest that some
maidens are taking time by the fore
lock and keeping him faithful before
he has time for any thing else.
Clear pearls are not anxiously sought
for, as they bring tears without end,
but the pink pearl that insures sudden
shower of tears and then weeks and
months of perfect happiness is as ea
gerly looked for as it is difficult to get
A long time ago wise man said: ''Ht
who hath Turquoise hath friend" sc
that it is not odd to see parasol handles
studded with the bright blue stones
while bands of them are worn a.
bangles and vinagrets are set will
them; the smart girl of to-day evident
~ believes, like the old Russian: "Th
more friends, the fewer enemies.
j Apropos of pearls, while Mrs. Mar
shall O. Roberts may have the fines
collection of white pearls, it is very
, certain that the largest single pinl
j. pearl shows its soft luster on the white
well-formed hand of Mrs. Langtry.
Mrs Aston is credited with having
i the finest single sapphire in thi
. country, but again does her lilyshil
, lead, for her famous sapphire neck
lace is, it is said by experts, the mos
; perfect string of sapphires ever shown
Real rubies are not only rare, but il
Y addition are wonderfully expensive
). No great number of them is possesses
5 by any single woman, although almos
$ every leader in the swell set possess
n fine one. The interest in the stones
, these beautiful flashing stars of tn
earth, is to be condemned, and it is b,
n long odds the best fad that the sum
= mer time has had for long time an,
e TO be perfectly az .faU in regard t
! them it becomes necessary to do lit
tie reading and to cultivate the mem
ory-two desirable occupations for tn
young woman of to-day .-Phitddeiphi
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