The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-10-04
VALUE OF FINGER RINGS.
Jewels with Hi.tor Have More Wort
than t.e J; - g ~ stones.


/ don't think there Is any danger OF
the summertime girl wearing rings on
her toes, as the nursery ianSle tells
about but that she does have them on
her fingers cannot be doubted, says a
writer in the Philadelphia Press. A
quaint ring, one set with a curiOusly
coiored stone, one that belonged to a
famous beauty. or even to a great man,
is valued not only far above rubies, but
quite casts Il 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
derstand the advantage attached to
peculiar ring.
One young woman is happyin mar
row band of curiously bright green
enamel set about with diamond stars;
this was picked up in pawn-broker's
shop in St Petersburg. AT the begin
ring of the season this was the old
story told about it. but row, as the
young woman has vivid imagination,
she has added to its original story, and
says that it was given by the hand
some Orloff to the beautiful blonde
Empress Catharine She tells a blood
curdlmg story about it. How he put
it on Catharine's finger the night be-
fore she sent him to Siberia, and how,
at the instigation of his rival, the tiny
ring was thrown out of the window.
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 a miners camp in 40. 1t is
set with a single ruby. The workman
ship is very rough, but the ring is de-
cidely suggestive of the old ones that
were worn by the Egyptian women as
symbols of the slavery to one man.
The moonstone is religiously worn to
the races, for. following 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 because of the hope that
she may some day be well, is rapidly
getting better under the influence of 4
beautiful emerald. Nobody ever does
confess to being annoyed about
lover. to doubling his faithfulness or
thinking that he may be growing weary,
but the fad for sapphires seems to sug-
gest that some maidens are taking time
BY the foreloch and keeping him faith
fUl before he has time for anything
else.
Clear pearls are not anXiously sought
for, as they bring tears without end,
but the pink pearl that insures a sud-
den shower of tears and then weeks
and months of perfect happiness is as
eagerly looked for as it is difficult to
Get. a long time ago 4 wise man
said: He who hath torquoise hath a
friend,n SO that it is not odd to see
parasol handles studded with the
bright blue stones. while bands of them
are worn as bangles and vinagrets are
set with them; the smart girl of to-day
evidently believes, like the old Rus
sian: The more friends, the fewer
enemies" Apropos of pearls, while
Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts may have
the finest collection Of white pearls, it
is very certain that the largest single
pink pearl shows its lustre on the
white, well-formed hand of Mrs. Lang
try.
Mrs AstOr is credited with having
the finest single sapphire in the coun-
try, but again does her ladyship lead,
for her famous sapphire necklace is, it
is said by experts, the most perfect of
sapphires ever shown. Real rubies
are not only rare. but in addition are
wonderfully expensive. No great num-
Der of them is possessed by any single
woman, although almost every leader
in the swell set possess fine one. The
interest in the stones, those beautiful
flashing stars of the earth, is to be
commended, and it is by long odds the
best fad that the summer time has had
for a long while, because you can't
talk Of gems and scandal at the same
time, and to be perfectly az fat in re
gard to them it becomes necessary to
do little reading to cultivate the
memory two desirable occupations
for the Young woman of to-day