The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-12
FIT TYPES FOR JEWELS.
Women Whom They Well Become, and
Others Whom They do Not.

] NuEdpA6Ss C4oWAs OF the 4I4EO
/ Kings.
Edmund Russell, in the Chicago Herald.
The woman who can wear diamonds
must allure, must scintillate with
magnetism, brilliancy and wit. She must
have flashing eyes and teeth, and, above
/ all, high-light on her upper lip. To
/ such a woman the flashing gems add to
/ her brilliancy. On one who is duh or old
! they simply say how successful her hus-
band has been in business. A poor con
versationalist should beware of wearing
/ anything that shines or of sitting near
/ shiny things. BrilIiancy emphasizes
| dizziness. On the first woman the gem
/ blazing above her bosom only seems to
/ have focused her own brilliancy-whilei it
makes a another woman look like stuffed
1 pin cushion.
| Such was the Countess Castiglione of
( second empire days, Langtry another
| Across the room you criticise; get within
| three feet of them and you are lost. Such
1 women can wear all the diamonds they
/ can get and can get all the diamonds
/ they can wear.
There is another type-a far rarer one.
/ The woman who seems to wear them by
! AAEt4 VI AAGL ON II IOA dI power, as II In4
| whole world had been rdnSacked of its
| treasures to increase her splendor and all
| found lesser than she. There is such a
woman in Chicago
The first woman we envy, the second
| we laugh at, the third we worship
But women do not stop to know if they
can wear diamonds. They only know
that they must wear them.
believe that we shall never come to
real art in jewels until precious stones
lose their value by the discoveries Of
science. Small rubies and diamonds can
| be already manufactured l do not mean
imitation stones, but those where the Sc
cret Of chemical formation has been dis
covered. As yet they cost more than the
natural stones, but some day an Elisha
Gray or Edison will come upon a secret
which will be the greatest lift to art in
dress that it has ever received. Value in
gems viii disappear and people Will have
| TO fall back on real art in Jewels and will
demand real artists to make them and
not manufacturers. Instead of saying
that woman has the largest ruby in the
world. and that necklace cost 100000, :"
we VIII hear her Jewels We're designed
by Burne-Jones, - those enamels are the
finest in the world - that set of canoes
was originated by William Ordway Part
ridge, - or those green and blue stones
arranged by Alma Tadema."
ART IN CHEAPNEss..
l rememember seeing Mrs. Holman
Hunt at party in a gown of white bro
caded satin, covered with priceless Vene-
tian rose point. She wore with great art
around her neck many strings of small
beads cut from mOther-Of-pearl. such as
one can buy at any stall in Plaisance.
They had just the dull CLEAN of her satin.
diamonds would have subordinated the
lace-they kept the picture as true in
quality as white study by Whistler.
Millions will be as nothing in one night.
but art will arise from the ashes as
proudly as Chicago did. 1t will take dis
play and vulgarity from those who might
give the word such delight-such pict-
ures of beauty
People viii say: ooh, I no longer wear
my necklace since they have had diamond
doorknobs on the fat house opposite. l
now wear this wonderful piece of filigree
had in my drawer so long and thought
nothing of, /" or, ''Since they have been
using diamonds as headlights on thecable
cars have brought out those Jeypore
enamels from India that they wanted me
to lend to the art museum"
Crash, let it come! and the conceit and
hypocrisy go! Diamonds decrease in
beauty as they increase in size That is
one reason why crown jewels are so dis
appointing.
Speaking to Mrs. John Sherwood of n
certain necklace in New York remarked
that 1t reminded me of a chandelier chain.
Yes, - said Mrs Sherwood, land don't
her earrings look like decanter shoppers ~
Diamonds are best used in designs of
small stones and in the setting of other
gems. Most colored stones in rings are
surrounded with diamonds far too large
The antique settings look much better on
the hand
But does not one want richness in
a grande tOilette} Yes, to any degree
One definition of beauty from Delsarte is
''Ihat IS most beautiful which is theymost
complex" but with the saving clause.
'proVldIng there is harmony in all the
parts" One can see n good illustration
OF this in the portraits of TWO expresses
at the exposition, Augusta the house.
keeper of our daring, darling Willie. who
at her marriage owned only string of
coral beads and a small silver min an
pears in what seems to be a white satin
! corset cover with a necklace and crown
of such huge diamonds so badly combined
| that one has no feeling except of their
size and utter inharmony with the
Wearer.
In the portrait of the Empress F'reder-
lex, near with the train of sables given
| her by the Car of Russia, whose equal
no money could buy; her celebrated string
of pearls worth 100000; the splendid
! sapphires Just in tone with the blue of
her royal robe set in dull gold ella boratelv
chained and wrought and mixing with
the gold brocade below, perhaps the
whole worth million, we have the
height of art and richness combined.
Once asking Karl Formes who was the
handsomest man he ever saw, he replied
the Car Nicholas of Russia" and the
handsomest woman, "A peasant girl on
the Rhine.n
OF the two handsomest dresses I ever
saw always excepting the costumes of
Bernhardt in Theodore" which no one
has ever equaled) one cost over 500. 600.
| the other TO cents, on a grande dame, a
gown of gray brocade just the tone of
| her Silyery hair. In the point lace.
| bought, as Frances Hodgson- Burnett saws
it should be not by the yard but by the
mile. A necklace of filigree diamonds.
from which hung pendant gray pearls,
each one worth many thousands large
gray pearls set with small diamonds in
the ears while the entire front was
covered with q stomacher of diamond
work set in silver, from which hung a
rain OF the gray pear-shaped pendants.
The whole cost a fortune, but was very
quiet, not near as "showy" as the lady
who stood by in a simple tailor made suit.
with red velvet bonnet and So 900 dia-
mond earrings. 1t was dress such as a
| wealthy woman of position, without anv
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