The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-19
JEWELS AND SEWING.
SEWING CIRCLES AND THE Cos
SIP RETAILED THEREIN.

heert-The Sky-blue Sapphlre-Ars
There Diamonds Dug IN Far-famed
Golconda After AllP-Euman Souled
Rubies - Emeralds Represent Har-
mony and Priceless Astor,
Belmont, Stanford and Vauderbils
Brilliants-W Wedding Ring in history.
Apostolic Gems - Precious Stones
and Birth Month Appropriateness
tCoDrr1Ghtl
New YORK, March 1S-You don't
amount to anything nowadays unless you
belong TO a sewing circle where you prick
your finger in the cause of charity and
have your mind improved. Some circles
have people 30 read 20 them, others have
questions for discussion, others Just gossip,
but l think belong to the very best. This
is the way it is run: After evsryb body has
threaded her needle and is ready for work,
the first sentence spoken in which there Is
any chance for a topic is the one discussed.
Last week an awfulIy pretty girl said to
her nelghbor: What beautiful TURQUOISE
you are wearing" That was quite enough,
and every woman who knew anything
about gems talked about them.
SEWING IS AT A srANDsTILL NOW.
One woman said: SIT is a little queer
why the opal is considered unluoky, be-
cause IN the days gone by man gave it to
the woman he loved because il was called
Cupid's stone, and was supposed to hold love
forever. But nowadays every body thinks
it uulucky. Certainly it is beautiful, for it
is the only stone that shows every color of
the rainbow, aud, unlike the turquoise, it
dDaan1t ChanOa with ba vVamroria baalth
Still, there is no doubt about it that IL does
seem TO have a queer effect on people.
know man who paid $1,000 for an opal
who threw 1t in well year after he got
1t, for he said no one else should suffer as he
had. He wore it for the first time on New
Year Day, and for the first time in his life
he got drunk; then the next day his sweet
heart threw him aside, and from
that day on he had business and
family troubles. We barbarians-for we
are barbarians as compared with the people
OF the far east-don't comprehend the mar
velous beauty of an opal Why, l remem-
Der reading a description Of a wonderful
stone, and the writer said: 1t penetrated
the soul and dRzzled the eyes of all who saw
it Majesty shot forth from its almost
divine splendor. It seB forth such bright,
piercing beams that 10 struck terror into all
beholders. In a word, it filed with
trembling the bodies of the bystanders and
forced them by a prede tined impulse to
love, honor and worship it. Fancy a stone
that would have such an impression on the
lookers-on. tell you, we have no appre-
citation of the absolutely beautiful"
CHARMING GIRLS HAVE THEIR INNINGS.
"Wen, 1 don't know" said a pretty
blonde, Il confess that the opal is the love-
lest stone have ever seen; but wouldn't
wear one for all the diamonds that ever
came from Golcouda.n
A girl who knows an awful lot, laughed
at this, and she said: MY dear girl, dia-
monds don't come from Golconda; l don't
think there is such a thing as a precious
stone there. GoIconda is O fortress some
place where they were In the habit of bring
lug the diamonds, and no mines are near
there
The other girl said II don't care. l
want TO wear a tOrQuois all che time.
When Charlie told me how much he loved
me, and said l didn't mind if be loved me
II It gave him any pleasure, and he brought
me this turquois ring, then | took the
trouble to study up about the turQuols
and found that it was the one stone war
ranted to keep your sweetheart. Indeed, to
DO more than that; it would keep your
friends. For way back in an old book it
says: He who hath q turquois hath a
friend And certainly it shows when you
are Ill. A couple of months ago, when I
was down with the grip, l watched the
ring on my finger absolutely pale aud look
SICK 80 got my sister, who is the very per-
lection of health, TO wear it for me, and
from the very day she put IL on it began 20
60 back TO its original color, and by the
time was well it was as blue as the heav-
ems" At
THE TINE THAT MRS. LANGTRY BEGAN
to collect turquoises, pretty nearly every
actress i'll the country started to do the
same. They never seemed to think that 1t
was question Of size, but they would se-
Iect otf-color gems that were perfectly huge
ana correspondingly undesira ble. Noted
jewellers were three years collecting the
stones for Langtry'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 probably the finest collection belonging
to any but the royalties Occasionally one
sees turquols with something engraved
upon IL. / remember one in gallery in
Florence that was as large as small bill
lara ball, and which had the head of
Cesar upon it; and in the Orleans collection
Is one that has cut in it head of Faustine.
~" spoke up an Industrious girl, al
must tell you something about engraved
stones. just before Christmas met Fanny
davenport and heard about the Christmas
glft she had for her husband, Mr.. Nc
lowell. She said he was very curious
about 1t, and so she described it to him; it
was square, it was blue, was curly and 1t
was over 1000 years old; he couldn't im-
aglne what it could be. Now, this is what
II was, a superb blue sapphire, square, with
TIE curly head OF Cesar cut in it. or
course 1t was blue; of course it was square;
Oa9sars hair was curly aud, or course, it
mas been over 900 years since he lived.
me jewelers. who got this spent nearly
TWO years searching tor it.
by-the-by, speaking OF Fanny Daven-
port, although one never hears any
tnlng about her diamonds although she
quite above using them for an advertise
M,leht, the fact remains that she has one Of
tne hnest collections in this country. They
are not great big bulls-eyes. but they are
e4quisitelY fine old mine stones, and IL Is
sslo that her jewels compare very well with
nose possessed by Mrs. Astor. How many
VI you Ike Off color stones9 They are con-
Auered very swell nowadays, though their
ksalue Is IN their beauty. Elizabeth Mar
Jury, true woman, who never said a bad
pl9y was good in her life. wears blue. O
yellow and white diamond as shirt but
,yons, and the contrast is marvellous. A yell
wv diamond Is supposed TO bring good
.ortune IN the way of money, and for that
,eason IL ought TO be- popular among
noInen, for every one of you know that we
re all as greedy for gold as ever we can
RICH WoMEN's VALUABLE STONES.