The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-09
EARRINGS ARE IN STYLE,
Though Out fuse for Several Years
They Have Come
Again.
Elegant Jeweled Lace Butterflies
for Fancy Millinery and
Dress Purposes.
Revival of the Cameo-Net Wells ode
With Turquoises - Mrs. Cieye-
lands Fine ParasOl. .

For the past four or five years it has been
the correct style to wear no ornaments in
the ears. but now this season Dame Grundy
and her followers. bursting upon us with
enormous hoops of gold and cameo s%ettinga,
quite take our breath away, and the re-
vival recalls to memory how the earrings in
til rentree of it's former reign withstood the
crusade against it's way and won it's way to
fame.
The New York News representative was
quite surprised the other day to notice in a
prominent jewelers. show window enormous
earrings, with cameo settings, quaint and
odd. Upon entering and investigating, it
was ound that the revival of the Elizabeth
IN jewel1y in all its massive and exaggerated
form is on the tapis. The cameo was the
f~ayorite stone of the virgin queen. In the
ring she gave to the earl of Leicester, her
favored admirer, were set two canoes and a
blood stone, and in her own iewel-oases the
cameo was most numerous. Thus the
cameo has gone down in history as one of
the Elizabethan jewels. The dress of to-
day, with its huge putfed sleeves, partakes
of the Elizabethan fashion, and it il but
natural that the jewellers, perosiving the
success of the dressmaker's scheme, should
proceed to manufacture ornaments to har-
monte with the reigning taste.
The first earrings ever worn by English
women were given by Queen Elizabeth's
merry maidens in jest to one of the ladies
in waiting. They were II set of plain golden
hoops. Jeweled earrings followed the
hoops rs an improvement, and the jest
turned out to be a very serious matter. Ear
rings continued to grow in size until they
became almost as hideous as those worn by
heather women. For the abolition of the
monstrous ear ornaments at court the world
in indebted to Queen Victoria. who, when
she entered the mourning state, abolished
all ~iewelry and thus set the fashion for the
majority.
An avalanche of antique iewelry ia on
exhibition in every ieweler 3 establishment.
It costs more than modern design, and
therefore ia deemed more precious and
mtre stylish. The square settings for An
ger rings arc in vogue with cameo stones.
The ~favorite design for the cameo is tho
famous head of Marie Antoinette. In gem
tlemen's finger rings, heads OF Napoleon
are noticeable. The variety IN cameo act
wstch charms is wonderful in its vastness.
Tiffany shows no less than Fifty different
models. A heart, mn arrow, a star, Il cres-
cent, flowers. ferns. leaves. wieh-bones and
secret s~ociety pinss of every description
are discernible.
Pendant necklaces of chased gold.
studded with diamonds, pearls or moon
stones will superseda silver bnndF. Designs
traced upon the pendants are in shape of
tiowera aud fruits In all their infinite vari-
ETY.. Everything must be chased. from
solid gold lorcncttea to link cuff buttons
with n fieur de- lis on one end and a blank
space for a crest on the other.
Dainty gem set miniatures Of i ehch
women are the latest pendant and pierced
gold brooches for half or full mourning.