Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-09-25
JEWELS AND COMPLEXION.
sone Hitherto Unpublished Fact. Con.
cerning an Important Subject.

sone Hitherto Unpub,Ishcd Facts Con.
cerning an Important Subject.
woman WAC has red face will
net wear emeralds. even if an arbi-
rary man milliner sends her home a
dress that emeralds would embellish.
F1ty she can not dress herself without
such aid. for. alas the face is not gen.
sraily considered in the concoction OF
eminent milliners. and / have OBJ
served cases where their views have
Seen independent even of the figure.
A woman with a poor complexion does
not Improve it by pearls. These lovely
and lnnocuous ornaments really derive
their chief luster from a transparent
skin. as they depend largely on re-
1ected lights. The iridescent colors
On pearls attract notice to the white
ness of a white ground, but on an ILL
solored ground they are de-
idedly vindictive. A woman
whose face. however beautiful.
takes cerdatres tints in the shadows
should avoid rubies, especially pink
eoes, and roseate topazes. A face
may have these greenish tints without
damage to beauty, remember. I am
not selecting all the most unfortunate
women I can think of to threaten and
warn. Every face has great deal of
green in it, as portrait painter will
seu you. Giotto (who painted the love-
Hest angels conceivable) and all his
pupils made the shadows on girls
saces startlingly green, and the eyes
green. too, sometimes, and yet we re-
seive the impression of exquisite deli
sacy and brilliancy. Still, red is the
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 fancee's
ring. especially if the engagement is
TO be long one, nor as a christening
gift to robust child. Opals are un-
lucky, they say, probably because they
ara extremely brittle. An acquaint-
snce OF mine, a great collector of
precious stones, lost a fine opal under
particularly annoying circumstances
He was pricing a fine specimen at a
ueu-known jewelers. He and the
shopman were passing it from hand to
hand It fell, and was pulverized on
the glass counter. Eaca accused the
ether. and eventually the gentleman
had to pay, and the jeweler lost more
Shan the worth of the stone in valua-
bic customer. Science tells US that
the opal is resinous quartz, which
ewes all its beauty to its imperfections-
The milky ground, transfused with
sunset fires, derives its celestial colors
from assures iaterrupting the continu-
4y 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 nl-treated Try
fine opal on coarse red hand or freck-
led neck, and judge On similar
grounds. do not try to reconcile a good
sapphire with sallow cheek. The
spiteful thing will loudly announce
your misfortune. But the gentle tur-
euois-always supposing you get real
one-they say the Orientals have not
sold us genuine turquois for ten
years. is more amlable- There is no
stone that so sets off fair white hand,
and if its owner fall sick, Or be troubled
mentally, the turquois viii temper its
vivid blue to sympathetic green. I
really think there is some ground for
this old Turkish superstition, which
no doubt means that the stone is sen
sitiye to mephitic or acid vapors. !
GREAT lhlEATl0Al