Feliciana sentinel., 1892-10-29

HINTS TO JEwELRy BUYERS.

HINTS TO JEWELRY BUYERS.
What Stone and Designs to select-Color
Influence OF Jewels on Each Other.
Jewelry is made and purchased in
order to render the woman who is to
wear it more attractive.
Even to rich people the buying OF
Jewels is but a rare occurrence; pur-
chasers therefore have little opportun-
ity to gain experience.
According to their beauty the best
known stones used for ornament have
orders:
Diamonds, rubies, sapphires, euer-
aids.
Topaz, opal, pearl. turquoise:
Tyrian garnet, amethyst, coral.
Lapis lazuli, am ber and agate, the
onyx and carnelian.
IN giving present of jewels, one
should consider many points; among
| them the Significance, suitability, rep
utatiOn of the different stones, as each
has n certain meaning. For instance,
the emerald is a promise of happiness,
and the sapphire an emblem Of purity
and love: the black onyx Is considered
desirable as a mourning Jewel for a
widow; the opal, with its beautiful
changing colors. is charm against
love, and therefore not precisely suit
able as gift from man to a woman.
In the selection of Il piece of jewelry
one should consider the beauty of the
and perfection of the workmanship in
the mounting, the elegance Of outline
and the idea Of the design.
Each piece should be full Of contrast,
such as may be gained from combining
FURNISHED surfaces with full ones, close
| with open work, piain with granulated
surfaces, or from the IN Xture of differ
ent metals like red gold with silver.
Unsymmetrica1 shapes and designs
| are to be preferred, as symmetrical ones
always have more or less serious air
| through their regularity. although they
please the common or uneducated eye,
| which seizes all the details without ef-
| fort.
Those designs which display mytho-
| logical and allegorical figures, or forms
| taken from geometry and the vegetable
| kingdom, are always refined. Archi-
! tectural, and those Introducing the en-
| tire figure OF human beings and animals,
| look too heavy, and all whims such rs
a rabbit playing drum. a face with
ruby eyes and emerald lips, may be
amusing, but are quite out Of tasta
| A pair of emerald earrings, represent
ing violets with dew drop in the
chalice. enhance wonderfully the beau
! ty Of golden hair, and dragon-fy OF
! brilliants nnd sapphires, looking as If
! ii had settled acciden tally on a lovely
! head, makes very handsome hairpiu.
| A clever purchaser will also take
! trouble to examine whether the COM
bination Of gems, enamel or me tai. has
really the most favorable effect pos
sible
the union Of rubies and emeralds pro-
duces a hard contrast, painful to the
eye. In all striking color-combinations.
such as turquoise and ruby, turquoise
and garnet. turquoise and coral, the
gems impair each others beauty. for
the turquoise looks greenish, the ruby
mere scarlet, while the garnet darlsens
and the coral turns yellowish.
Precious stones nearly always look
we'll arranged with diamonds, because
the diamond is actually colorless. The
mixture Of colored gems with pearl is
not SO successful: sapphires, emeralds,
topaz, amethyst look well enough with
the siivery brilliancy and opaline tints
of the pearl, but the ruby has too decid
ed a color to be placed with it. Rubies,
however, are charming when set with
opals, because their vivid crimson finds
response in the subdued fire of the
other.
A setting of gold, purified on its sur
face. lends greenish hue to tho topaz
deepens the shade of the emerald anc
; the blue of the sapphire, and gives
clearer azure tinge to the eastern
pearl. Red enamel enhances the beaut!
of the emerald, and in setting of greer
. enamel the ruby appears Of richer
crimson, and the garnets a more vivft
. red. Violet enamel hcightens the tons
. Of the topaz which by the side of tht
blue enamel takes a pretty orange tint
4 setting of green-gold increases thu
. red lights which constitute the beauty
: of the opal, and throws a charming
/ ruby reflection upon the pearl.
! In applying jewelry to the toilet, al
ways due care should be given that thu
5 pieces harmonic with the complexion
5 the hair and the costume of the wearcr
, For instance. a necklct of coralS look
| best with dark green Dire SIS or with dari
2 red dress. y string of amber pearl
) will be worn to adva antage with a viote
dress. Rubies and corals are general.
' becoming to bruncttes while sapphire
r and turquoises are more suitable t'
, blondes.
t The colors of Jewels are greatly inf1u
. enced by artificial lights. Under gas
/, light the pure soft blue of the sapphir
G deepcns into a violet black; pale azur
sapphires will prove by far more effect
S i've as blue stones. The emerald ais
loses its vividness, while the Cape dia
t nonds that are of n pale lemon color i
l daylight suddenly reveal q latent bril-
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I An Americsinisn Explained.
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1, | If natural and reasonable growth.