The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-04

greatly TO the hard glitter of even the finest
diamonds, rubies, emeralds or sapphires.
| Queen Marguerite Of Italy's pearls are
almost unparalleled in beauty end value,
some OF them being the size of robins
eggs. Since the first year of their mar
rage King Humbert has given his lovely
consort at Christmas and on the occasion of
her birthday one rope of pearls of ex-
IRENE magnifcence. This celebrated coll
lar, which has been added to from year to
year, reaches now down to the queen S
waist, and when she wears them On state
occasions they are accompanied by dia-
dem of huge pearls, given to her on her
marriage by her mother, and by two adj
| miraole bracelets composed of sixteen rows
of perfect Ceylon pearls, the gift of the late
Emperor Frederick of Germany. who was
a great admlrer of the fair Marguerite.
The queens inordiuate love for pearls
may be attributed to the fact that as her
pretty name of Marguerite means s'pearl'
in Greek, ever since her birth pearls have
been showered upon her, go much so, in
deed, that she now considers these luxur-
ious toys as absolutely necessary to her
comfort and happiness.
Sixty feet below the surface of the sea,
at the foot of the PERCEPTIONS rocks where
the emperor of AuStria's fairy-like palace
Of Miramar raises its aerial and fantastic
looking towers of snowy marble against
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are sunk in massive iron cage. They are
the property OF the Archduchess Rainier,
cousin TO his majesty. The arohduchess
used to wear these pearls-her husbands
first gift TO her-day and night around her
throat.
In 1865 the charming princess caught a
malignant fever while nursing one Of her
and death. During that time the pearls
sickened and lost their lovely orient; they
turned a dull, waxy yellow, ana when,
after Archduchess Rainer's almost miracu-
lous recovery, jewelers. were consulted as
to the best means of restoring health and
beauty TO the precious gems, they declared
that their only salvation lay in lowering
them to the bottom of the ocean for an in
definite period of time.
TWenty-six years have now elapsed since
the ailing pearls have been sunk in the
sapphire-Dlue waters of the bay of Mira
mar. and they are gradually recovering
their beauty and their wonderful color in
the briny element, whence they were torn,
perhaps, centuries ago to adorn the white
throat of some dead and gone court beauty.
Another celebrated, not to say historical,
collar of pearls is that owned by Mme. de
Rute-RattazZi, who played so conspicuous
a role in France during the second empire
and who even now at the age of sixty
years is still almost ss beautiful and as
much of q chaf1neuse as when the imperial
eagle disappeared from the TuilleIes.
Nine. &c Rutes career has been nearly as
romantic as that OF Countess Henkel She
is the granddaughter of Prince Lucien
Banaparte, elder brother of Napoleon I,
and the daughter of Mr.. Thomas Wyse,
then British envoy to the court of Athens.
Her first husband was the Count de Solms,
a German nobleman who, Mortified by her
soon obtained separation from
her. A few years later, Count de Solms
having most considerably left this world,
she married the great Italian prime minis
ter, Urban Rsttszzi, who was then old
enough to be her father. It was during
that time she began to display her talent as
q writer, and until Rattazzi's death, which
TOOK place about ten years later, his wife
led an exemplary life, abandoning COM
pletely ali the intrigues and scandals which
had hitherto been part and parcel of her
existence.
Ten years after the marriage Urban Rat /;
taxi died, and his widow returned to ,
France and resumed her old relations and !
habits. She hogan to play decisive role /
in political circles, and became the ''Ege- !
ria' of the Marquis de Pommeraye, who at /
his death bequeathed to her his magnificent
collection of jewels and his enormous for !
tune. His disappointed relatives Of course /