Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-19
JEweLs AND COMPLEXION.


some Hitherto Unpublfshed Facts Con-
corning an Important Subject.
A woman who has red face will
trary man milliner sends her home q
dress that emeralds would embellish.
Pity she can not dress herself without
such aid, for. alas ! the face is not gen.
orally considered in the concoction of
eminent milliners. and / have OBJ
served cases where their views have
been independent even of the figure.
A woman with poor complexion does
not improve it by pearls. These lovely
their chief luster from a transparent
skin. as they depend largely on re-
Elected lights. The iridescent colors
on pearls attract notice to the white
ness of a white ground. but on an ILL
colored ground they are de-
cidedly vindictive. A woman
whose face. however beautiful.
takes verdatres tints in the shadows
should avoid rubies, especially pink
ones, and roseate topazes. A face
may have these greenish tints without
damage to beauty. remember. l am
pot selecting all the most unfortunate
women can think of to threaten and
warn. Every face has a great deal of
green in it. as portrait painter will
tell you. Giotto (who painted the love-
lest angels conceivable) and all his
pupils made the shadows on girls
faces startlingly green, and the eyes
green. too, sometimes. and yet we re-
ceive the impression of exquisite deli
complementary of green. and if the
dress should be pink, and no help for
it, the Jewels nearer the face ought to
counterfeit it. A wise man will not
select the precious opal for his fiancee's
ring. especially if the engagement is
to be long one. nor as christening
gift to robust child. Opals are un-
lucky. they say, probably because they
are extremely brittle. An acquaint-
ance of mine, great collector of
precious stones, lost a fine opal under
particularly annoying circumstances.
He was pricing a fine specimen at a
well-known jewelers.. He and the
shopman were passing it from hand to
hand. 1t fell, and was pulverized on
the glass counter. Each accused the
other. and eventually the gentleman
had to pay. and the jeweler lost more
than the worth of the stone in valua-
BILE customer. Science tells us that
the opal is resinous quartz. which
owes all its beauty to its imperfections.
The milky ground, transfused with
sunset fires, derives its celestial colors
from assures interruptng the continu-
ity of the substances. Is it. therefore,
wonderful that I do not recommend
the opal for hard wear? Art tells us
to avoid the opal as We avoid the
pearl, unless we can do it justice by a
lovely background. There is no stone
SO revengeful when ill-treated. Try a
fine opal on a coarse red hand or freck-
led neck, and judge. On similar
grounds. do not try to reconcile good
sapphire with a sallow cheek. The
spiteful thing will loudly announce
your misfortune. But the gentle tur-
quois-always supposing you get a real
one-they say the Orientals have not
sold us genuine turquois for ten
years. is more amiable. There is no
stone that so sets off fair white hand.
and if its owner fall sick, or be troubled
mentally, the turquois will temper its
vivid blue to a sympathetic green.
really think there is some ground for
this old Turkish superstition, which
no doubt means that the stone is sem
sitive to mephitic or acid vapors.-
Contemporary Review.