The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-09

the following article on the Jewels
worn by Miss Myrtle Turner, whose
face and figure have been so well
/ known in our city for the past two
! years:
The man who wrote the old rhyme:
Rings on her fingers and bells on her
toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes.
had an Oriental image in his mind.
But here comes aLong girl from the
west-Myrtle Turner-with notion of
/ jewelry that would make the diamond
| decked GavoriteS of sultan open their
eyes.
This maiden has come to New York
! looking for job on a roof garden, and
the gems with which she adorns her
! pretty hands are bright enough to at
I tract the attention of any manager
with half an eye.
With a proper display of these decor
ated hands she ought TO make very
rapid progress. New Yorkcrs may have
a chance, by and by, to find out
whether she can sing or not Her
friends say she can. But whether she
can or no, she will certainly have the
satisfaction of having taguht New York
lesson in jewel1y.
This startling young woman always
had a penchant for diamonds. and
I
on every finger and both thumbs, and
on every joint OF them ALL But that
was not sufficient She had a better
scheme. She took a lot of gold chains
and dashed to the back of her hand
the biggest turquoise that money could
buy.
This stone which she wears every
day, wherever she goes" and which,
with it's accomplishments is dazzling
/ tba II of
people in the Tenderloin weighs TWEEN
ty-four karats. And, to make the effect
of it all the more amazing, it is sur
rounded with forty-two diamonds, each
Weighing half a karat. So, you see,
there are twenty-one karats of first
water sparklers on the back of this
young wornan's hand, beside the wealth
of turquoise and a bewildering assert
ment of rings.
Miss Turner, who, for a stage name,
calls herself Titania, has offered her
talents, turquoise hand ornament and
all, to the managers CT the vaudeville
entertainment soon to be given for the
benefit of the Junior Republic.
The wearing of this giant gem, which
measures an inch and a half in dame
ter is not the only startling thing
that Miss Turner does. She rides horse
back astride, as most women in the
and used to sitting a-saddle that way,
she does not mind it. She won glory
in the west as a horsewoman. She is
known throughout Idaho and Utah as
a. prize-winn at long-distance riding,
stage driving, pistol and rifle shooting
and all those energetic aqnusements
which make the western girl so thor
oughly competent to take care of her
self and whoever else needs her pro-
lection.
But the west was not wide enough
for her; so here she is, with her figure,
her voice, her winning way, her dogs,
her rifles, and a iewelled hand, the like
Of which New York has never seen be-
fore.
There are two species of green things
trees and eastern society reporters
One of these latter, after devoting a
half column to Miss Myrtle Turner's
sparklers, comes out with a large
flourish from his effete trumpet thus:
She is known throughout idaho
and Utah as a prize winner at long
distance riding. stage-driving, pistol
and rifle shooting and all those ener-
getic amusementSe which make the
western girl SO competent to take care
of herself and whatever else needs her
protection
One in reading this is racl1ed with
doubts. Did Miss Turner tell all this
last to the reporter. If SO, the pitcher
at the fountain is broken and Zion will
cease it's homage to the absent fair
and give is to idols less tickle. I'm
gentle Myrtle! Heartless Utonian!
Holland Delft is in the height of its
vogue for drawing room furnishings