The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-01-10
JEWELS AND COMPLEXION.

some hitherto Unpubliahed Facts Con.
corning an Important Subject.
A woman who has q red face will
not wear emeralds, even if an arbi-
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 il 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 a poor complexion does
not improve it by pearls. These lovely
and innocuous ornaments really derive
their chief luster from a transparent
skin. as they depend largely on re-
flected 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 rerdatres tints in the shadows
should avoid rubies. especially pink
ones. and roseate topazes. A face
may have these grcenish tints without
damage to beauty, remember. l am
not selecting all the most unfortunate
women / can think of to threaten and
warn. Every face has a great deal OF
green in it, as a portrait painter will
tell you. Gietto (who painted the love-
liest 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
cacy and brilliancy. Still, red is the
complementary Of green. and IL 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 I'M
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 interrupting 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 tho
pearl. unless we can do it justice by q
lovely background. There is no stone
so reveugeful when ill-treated. Try a
fine opal on coarse red hand or freck-
led neck, and judge. On similar
grounds. do not try to reconcile good
sapphire with sallow cheek. The
spiteful thing will loudly announce
your misfortune. But tho gentle tur-
luois-always supposing you get real
say. the Orientals have not
sold US a genuine turquois for ten
Ie2rs) is more amiable. There is no
stone that so sets off fair white hand,
and If its owner fall sick, or be troubled
the turquois will temper -
vivid blue to a sympathetic green. I
'eally think there is some ground for
his old Turkish superstition, which
10 doubt means that the stone is SEN
'itive to mephitic or acid vapora