Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-03-23

Special Correspondence Gazette and Journal.
New YoRK, March 17.-You don't
amount to anything nowadays unless
you belong to sewing circle, where
you prick your finger in the cause of
charity and have your mind improved.
Some circles have people to read to
them, others have questions for dis
cussion, Others just gossip, but think
belong to the very best. This is the way
II is run; After everybody has threaded
her needle and is ready for work, the
FIRST sentence spoken in which there is
any chance for topic Is the one dis
cussed. Last week an awfully pretty
girl said to her neighbour: "What a
beautiful turquoise you are wearing p
That was topic enough, and every
woman who knew anything about gems
talked about them.
SEWING Is AT A sTANDsTILL NOW.
One woman said at is little queer
why, the opal is considered unlucky, be.
cause in the days gone by man gave it
to the woman he loved because it was
called cupid's stone, and was supposed
to hold love forever. But nowadays
everybody thinks it unlucky. Ger.
tainly it is beautiful, for it is the only
stone that shows every color of the
rainbow, and, unlike the turquoise, it
doesn't change with the wearer's health.
Still, there is no doubt about il that it
does seem to have queer effect on
people. | know man who paid S. 900
for an opal who threw it in well
year after he got il, for he said no one
else should suffer as he had. lie wore il
for the first time on New Years Day,
and for tho first time in his life he got
drunk; then the next day his sweetheart
threw him aside, and from that day on
he had business and family troubles.
We harbarians-for we are harbarians
as compared with the people OF the far
east-don't comprehend the marvellous
beauty of an opal, Why, remember
reading description of wonderful
stone, and the writer said: 1T penc.
trated the soul and dazzled the eyes of
all who saw it, Majesty shot forth from
its almost divine splendor. II sent forth
such bright piercing beams that ii struck
terror into all beholders In word, it
filled with trembling the bodies of the
bystanders and forced them by pre-
destined impulse to love, honor and
worship IT, Fancy stone that would
have such an impression on the lockers
on. tell you, we have no appreciation
of the absolutely beautiful. ;"
CHARMING GIRLS HAVE THEIR INNINGS.
"Well, | don't know" said pretty
blonde, II confess that the opal is the
loveiiest stone / have ever seen: but
wouldn't wear one for all the diamonds
that ever came from Golconda."
A girl who knows an awful lot,
laughed at this, and she said "My dear
girl, diamonds don't come from Col.
conda; / don't think there is such
thing as a precious stone there. Col
conda Is fortress some place where
they were in the habit of bringing the
diamonds, and no mines are near there"
The other girl said; 81 don't care. |
want to wear turquoise all the time.
When Charlie told me how much he
loved me, and | said didn't mind if he
loved me, If 1t gave him any pleasure,
and he brought me this turquoise ring,
then took the trouble to study up
about the turquoise, and found that il
was the one stone warranted to keep
your sweetheart Indeed, to do more
than that it would keep your friends.
For way back in an old book it saws
He who hath turquoise hath friend
And certainly it shows when YOU are i'll.
"A NpupiO VI LtOuluo dEp, WugH i was
down with the grip, | watched the ring
on my finger absolutely pale and look
sick, so got my sister, who is the very
perfection OF health, TO wear it for me;
and from the very day she put it on ii
began to go back to its original color,
and by the time / was well it was as
blue as the heavens" At
THE TINE THAT MRS. LANGTRY BEGAN
to collect turquoises, pretty nearly every
actress in the country started in to do
the same. They never seemed to think
that it wasn't a question of size, but
they would select otf-color tems that
perfectly huge and CORRESPONDENCE
undesirable. Noted jewelers. were three
years collecting the stones for Lnngtry's
necklace, and they matched, not only in
color, but in size. They were mounted
on thin gold chain, and each one
framed in diamonds, and they are prob
ably the finest collection belonging to
any but the royalties. Occasionally one
secs a turquoise with something en-
grayed upon it. | remember one in a
gallery in Florence that was as large as
small billiard ball, and which had the
head of Caesar upon it; and in the
Orleans collection is one that has cut in
~ IL hehu Vi fduSIlle.
"Oh," spoke up an industrious girl
81 must tell you something about en-.
graved stones. just before Christmas I
met Fanny Davenport and heard about
the Christmas gift she had for her hus.
band, Mr.. Mcdowell. She said he was
very curious about it, and so She de.
scribed ii to him; it was square, it was
blue, it was curly, and it was over a
thousand years old; he couldn't imagine
what it could be. Now, this is what il
was, superb blue sapphire, square,
with the curly head of Caesar cut in it.
OF course 1t was blue; of course il was
square; Cesar's hair was curly; and, of
course, it had been over a thousand
years since he lived. The jewellers who
got this spent nearly two years search
ing for 1t. By-the-by, speaking of
Fanny Davenport, although one never
hears anything about her diamonds;
although she is quite above using them
for an advertisement, the fact remains
that she has one of the finest collections
in this country, They are not great big
bulfs.cyes, but they are eXqusitely fine
old mine stones, and ii is said that her
jewels compare very well with those
possessed by Mrs. Astor. How many of
yon like otf-color stones? They are
considered very swell nowadays, though
their value is in their beauty. Eliza
beth Matbury,a true woman, who never
said bad play was good in her life,
wears blue, yellow and white dta-
mond as shirt buttons, and the contrast
is marvellous. A yellow diamond is
SuDnOscd to bring great f,nnd fort,,un il,