The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-28
WEARING BRACELETS
SOME MEN DO IT AS LovE-GAGEs,
OTHERS TO FOLLOW A FAD.

OTHERS TO FOLLOW A FAD.
/ All Sorts Are Worn by the Man Of
Society, the Sport, the Dude, the
Tough and the Masher-How Som g
OF Them Look-Notabie People in
the "Brsceles Brigade"
Copyrighted 1882
NEW YORK, July, 2Z-The fashionable
young man of New York knows but two
stages of evolution-infaucy and maiden
! hood. The dear boys no sooner emerge
from the nursery than they begin 70 develop
a soft and velvety condition Of mind and
body that is the envy and admiration Of all
the girls.
why" said prominent jeweler, 'the
! society youth Of to-day has more jewelry
| than a woman. To begin with, there's his
eyeglass, which may be gold I1mmed
or plain, attached to delicate gold chain,
his scarf pin which may be gold and dia-
monds and pearls; his ring which should
always be a plain gold seal ring; his watch
chain, which really looks better without a
bunch Of charms dangling like the beads
'~.@' L'iD "a bGyA CtAASo Va a oNiAISA N
cane which in the economy Of human nat
ure here in New York at least, seems to b9
Indispensable; his gold pencil, his toothplck
and now he is wearing bracelets! wonder
he doe MT wear earrings aud a necklace, and
leave nothing for the girls at all. "
The" Bracelet Brigade'lS a unique social de
development. When young mans best girl
gives MIN one Of her bracelets to wear. at
taching it to his wrist with paddock or some
other fastening Of when she holds the key,
she means it as "a love-gage and she wants to
keep him true aud constant, and to remind
him that flirting to the extreme point with
other girls wont be tolerated.
But the bracelet Brigade" is far from
being wholly recruited from the ranks of
devoted lovers and sp0oning fiancss. The
fad has lately struck home in another di-
rection, and the wrist jewei bids fair to be
come a permanent article of masculine
adornmeut, just as much as seal or scarf
pin.
The new fashion," said the manager in
one of the leading Broadway jewelry
houses, was started in this city by We
tern girls. They seem to get mold Of new
ideas before any body else; at ali events they
se5 this thing going, and | don't know
whore it is going to stop. 1t does seem
ridiculous, doesn't it, to see n man come
and leave his bracelet for repair! No, the
men don't buy them openly for themselves
just yet; but it will soon come to that
You can get them all the way from SIS
to 500 for a single bracelet. OF course you
will understand that men do not care any
thing for diamonds or other stones in them
not even pebble. The style is plain
gold, but some are Of beautiful workman
ship.
Among the best known members of the
bracelet Brigade are several noted club
men, few actors, and perhaps half doz-
en- Wall street men. Giovanni 2. MOrosini,
the former partner of Jay Gould, and the
posse5sor of one of the finest collections of
modern aud antique jewelry, wears a small
chain bracelet, which fastens over his fat
chubby wrist with twisted hoop of gold.
Baron de Grimm, the artist and man
about town, displays on his plump and
well Knit wrist chain bracelet Of four
coils, fastened by tiny paddock. Prince
EristOR, the Russian swell whose adveu-
lures on two continents have amused and
ent rtained society for several years, and
who, last season, was in court over law
suit brought by his furrier who wanted to
recover the price Of the gallant princes
fur overcoat, wears a heavy, plain gold
baud, which closes with patent snap like
that IF a sleeve button. The band is of
pale yellow gold and like everything else
about Eristotf, Is decidedly unique
Kyrle Below wears double band, plain,
and semi-concave. 1t is rather neat
and when the graceful actor
swings his monocle with his left hand in a
fetching way he has, when talking, the
bracelet just shows beneath the immaculate
cuff.
e. Berry Wall. 1.-THE King of Dudes, "
wears silver bracelet in the form of a
small snake William j. Raynor, of the
Madison square troupe, who supported
Annie Pixley for two seasons. has a plain
gold band soldered on his wrist. He is re-
solved that nothing shall separate him
from his fetch, for ne wears it not for love
but for luck. 1t is added to the long list of
actors superstitions. Cunliffe Owen, a
young literary society man, wears chain
bracelet with paddock Rob billiards.
bracelet is a series of square links of gold
and chased silver. 1t is, Of course, greatly
admired and desired by the handsome &C
tors lady acquaintance; but billiard, like
RaynOr, has taken precautton to have his
mascot sOldered on.
Perhaps the most beautiful of all the
bracelet wearers in town is the distinguished
Col. Nicholas Smith, of Kentucky fame 1t
is a mooted question which 10 the haudsom
er-the colonel or the bracelet. 1.-THE brace
Let's a delicate little trile of EtruScau
Workmanship, and might have been
wrought for an oriental prince 1t fas-
tens with a simple clasp.
The faro dealer affects a snake bracelet
black enameled. with a diamond or some
other stone for the eyes. The thing glitters
and shines inadvertently in way that is
frequently suggestive to superstition.
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