The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-04-16
WEARING FALSE GEMS.
The Practice IL Now Freely Toler-
ated in Good So
cIefv


ated in Good So
cIety.
How much is real and how much is
sham in the Respondent display of pre-
sumably precious stones at the opera or
other smart functions is impossible to
tell nowadays, for my lady mixes the
two together with q calm audacity that
is development of late years, the old
theory that lady must wear nothing
that is not real being apparently quite
out of date. The modern adaptation Of
this social rule is that if woman has
certain amount of fine jewels she may
wear as many false ones in addition as
she can without making the fact con-
spicuous. 1t is only in those who have
no real ones that the display of false
gems is vulgar.
a fashionable woman in town. whose
position is unquestionable, wears several
strings of pearls, one of which is real
and the rest shams, and hardly knows
herself which is the genuine. Another
| woman who owns a couple of diamond
stars, has presented herself with several
others-thc best "PaIais Royal bril-
liants.' whose glittering radiance is
with the real stones. At birthday
dinner recently the heroine Of the o.
casion wore ruby surrounded by pearls
as brooch. This was greatly admired.
Taking it from the lace which it fas-
tended, she passed it to one of her
friends. The jewel was handed from one
to another until it had made the circuit
of the table. All the guests were PEG
pie of culture, familiar with gems, and
|
| the stone had been unanimously praised.
the owner fastened it in it's place again.
saying quietly: Il think it is pretty. |
bought it yesterday at BIS for 81
1t has long been conceded that a string
Of Roman pearls may be worn by Il
young girl without laying her taste open
to question. 1t is new thing, however.
| for rich women to bring real gems and
bogus ones together in such way as
to deceive the very elect: and it seems ii
pity that the old standards Of nObiesSt
oblige. affecting the wearing of jewels
and lace. should be lowered. 1t is
claimed by those who wear false jewels
that no deception is intended, the owner
being quite willing to acknowledge her
use of the limitations; but, at all events
the general public is deceived. and ii
out of her way to acknowledge what she
is wearing.
II do no: see the use Of wearing rea
pearls, said Il well-known society WON
an not long ago. Il have half a mind
to sell mine and wear limitations. Nc
one would ever know Then she fully
concluded to take this course, and did
come from $4,000 in bonds, wear,
pearls still. and even her intima te
trends do not suspect the exchange.
Worse than sham jewels. however. j:
sham traveller. and it is limited thai
one or two society lions have never beer
i'll all the out-of- the-way places they ar.
credited with having explored. 1t l.
easy nowadays, with the help of nume1.
Gus books and all kinds of collected in
formation and illustrations. to project
ones astral body. as it were. through
space, and obtain an excellent idea O
foreign lands, without the trouble an,
expense of voyage; and weeks loIg
ing Ill London near the British museum
may take the place of visit to teri:
lncognita, so far as a thorough under
standing OF the country is concerned.
How many books of travel are writer
in libraries from imaginary experience,
It Is hard to say, for such frauds upol
the public are rarely detected: and. after
all. the books give the information tina
Is desired. But man or a woman VIII.
IS teted and dined on the strength O
such Il vigorously obtained reputation
must have the Qualms of conscience tina
come at times to all sorts Of swindlers.
ne hlSb-bred manner that marked th
caste of We're de We're is certainly DO
Characteristic of aristocratio society il
France. Eng and or America row Til,
| CYNICAL frenchnlan vino said he could al
ways tell the difference between an ac
tres~ and countess by the superior re
flnement and good-hreeding of the actrts.
was not so far wrong. Not long age n
English dame Of the old school. who hat
brought cut her daughters in til, trad;
tonal manner. got into Il tirst-claSS car
rage ON the Dover mail with two o
those daughters. and they arranged thvil
varlols lmpcdimenta iii the neat. ortho
dox British fashion. Hardly were til.
three seated when a party rushed dcwl
to the platform. talking ami Laughing.
c J,I cach other !,n "Billy" and Nell" an5
by i'll noisy fashion to one of the lot. VIII,
was evidently, not to accompany the rest
My dearS, said the British matrcn
bristling with disapproval. ''tl.oSe dread
ful creatures are coming iii here. The,
are evidently Americans DO not on an!
account permit then, to Scrapc an :c
quaintance. am told that they ar,
strangers scrambled in. and the guar
slammed the door, materfamilias and he
girls glared haushtily at the intruderS
one of whom said, pleasantly: Il fca
we are trOWding you. but there was n
other carriage to be had" To this Their
was no response. Another wel-meant re
mark about moving some papers was ais
received with chilling hauteur So pay
ing no further heed to the original il,
mates of the compartment. the new al
rivals literally ate, drank and made mer
~ to the intense and manifest DISCUS, O
the solemn trio. who exchanged glance
expressive of their annoyance. furnishing
obvious amusement to the presume,
Americans, who. like naughty children
seemed greatly diverted by the situation
and rather tried to increase the ire o
their campag Dhns de voyage by an over
flow of hlarity.
AT Dover the two parties stopped at tn
same hotel. and crossed the next morn
ing to Calais. But what Il TRANSITIONAL
ton scene on the steamer. The British
matron met the nois! Young folks with
beanling smile and a bow. to which Il S,l
percilous stare Was the only response
The prim daughters proffered rugs an,
other comforts. which were CURLY re
fused. What was the cause of this sud
den turning of the tables? Merely tina
the English matron, with the curio>it,
chara cteristic of her class, had examine.
the hotel register. and, to her disn,ay
had read Lord and Lady Fitznocile.
The Duke of Mayfair and THE Hon
BILE Maud Highflyer." The smartest o
the smarteSt set in London. The init
mate friends of H. r. H.! The people q
all others that they were most dying t.
know!-New York Tribune
The Holy House Loretto.
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