Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-19

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OUR BAD
Ma first sentence spoken in which
|, any chance for Il topic is the one
~. Last week an awfully pretty
I'm 10 her neighbOr; What u
M turquoise YOU are wcoring''
gs topic enough. and every woman
NEW anything about gems talked
+ ilem.
IyG is AT A STANDSTILL
NOW.
woman said: ut is a little queer
IA OPAL is considered uulucky, be-
n the days gone by q man gave II
woman he loved because il was
cupid's stone. and was supposed
love forever. hut nowadays
dy thinks IL unlucEy. Certainly
|IOu,iful. for il Is the ouly stone
bows every color In the rainbow,
Inlise the turquoise, IL doesn't
"A with the wcarcr's health. Still,
\ no doubt about &C that IL does
have queer effect on people. l
y man who paid $4,000 for an opal
|nw Il in q well year after he
i0r he said no else should suffer
Dad. He wore il for the hrst time
IN Years day. and for the first
hls lie he got drunk, then the
~ his sweetheart threw him aside,
Nom that day on he had business
nily troubles. We burbarians--
are b0rbnrians as compared with
bile Of the far ltnst.-don't COM
the marvellous beauty of an opal
i remember reading Il description
wonderful stone. ana the writer
lt penetrated the soul and dag-
Y eyes OF all who saw Il. Majesty
fth from It's almost divine spleD-
a sent forth such bright, piercing
that II struck terror into all be-
IN a word. IL filed with tremb-
y bodies Of the bystanders aud
ihem by q prcdestinod impulse TO
onor and worship IT, Fancy q
bat would have such an impress
IN the loOkors-On. tell you, we
appreciation Of the absolutely
MING GIRLS HAVE THEIR
INNINGS.
! ! don't know" said n pretty
Il confess that the opal Is the
stone j have ever seen, but l
Z wear one for all the diamonds
v came from Golcondn."
p who knows an awful lot, laugh
MS, aud she said: MY dear girl,
d don't come from Golconda; !
link there is such n thing as a
stone there. Golconda IL q
q smoe place where they were m
4 l Of bringing the diamonds, and
= are near there"
ether girl said: ~ don't care. ]
wear q turquoise nll the time
uharlie told me how much b,
Pc, and l said | didn't mind " he
ne, II Il gave him any pleasure,
brought me this turquoise ring
loOk the trouble TO study up about
qnolse, and / found that il wa'
stone warranted 10 keep YOU
ssalt Indeed, TO do more thar
N would keep your friends. Fol
tek In an old book it says: II,
20 q turquoise hath Il friend.
tiulnly II shows when YOU are Ill
n OF months ago, when / wa'
Ni1h the grip, | watched the RIM
y niger absolutely pale and look
! GOT my sister, who Is the very
Hoh OK health, to wear IL for me
.u the very day she put Il ON u
" 30 back TO its original color
. NE time / was well it was ~
VI me heavens. >" At
ilhE THAT MRS. LANGTRI
BEGAN
q igrquoises, pretty nearly every
* Tue country started in to do IN,
" nty never seemed 20 think tina
question Of size, but thel
,s'e,t oit'solOr jeius that weri
uuge aud coiTcspondingly un
Noted jewelers. were tire
iepung the stones for Langtry
ana they matched. not only II
" size. They were mounte'
god chain, and each one fram
-'slonds, and they are probabl,
collection belonging 20 any bu
.'ues Occasionally one sees
Mish something engraved MO-
.'silner one In O gallery In Flor
~ Ia N4s Ns large as a small billiar
N winch had the head Of Caesa
' lua IN the Orleans collection J
mas cut In Il a head Of FauS
'loSe up an Industrious girl
WI you something about en-
s,.hes just before Christmas
4 W. davenport and heard abou
naas gift she had for her huf
= ~ Mcdowell. She said lac wa
NV. about IL, and os she DESERT
ee,i iu' y was square, IL was blus
Il 49, ana Y was over n tb0usan
,he couldn't imagine what
Nm oW, this Is what il was,
M sapphire. square, with ~
IN ~ Caesar cut Ia Il. OF eours
~ Of course Il was square
80 n.'ir was curly. aud, Of COURSE
over a thousand years sine
e,,l.Ae jewelers. who got thi
= TWO years searching for Il
m, Ptaking Of Fanny DaVeI
IA, 1sl one never hears anythin
An. diamonds, although she
~ using them for nn advertise
fn... t remains that she has on
M COLLECTIONS IN this country
~, NV great big bnll's-eyes. bu
estsiglsltely fine old Inine stone.
NJ NV, wv That her jewels conpar
N''l those Possessed by Mr.
many Of You like off-colo
IN \, are considered very swe
gngh their value Is n thei
fa.gbeth Marbury. y tru
k n, ~ .esef said 4 had play va
-'e' wears a blue, a yellol