The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-23
WEARING OF THE GREEN.

Green Gems Have wonderfully
Fashionable Vogue just Now.
New York, Oct. 21.-There is no doubt
about it that green stones head the list
this season of fashionable jewels, though
the combination of turquoise and diamonds
is just as popular as ever. Emeralds, of
course. come first In the catalogue, and
all the prominent American jewelers. are
sending over their agents to buy what they
can at the sale of the late Empress of
Austria's effects. The contents of her cas-
ket is to be disposed of soon, and as she
possessed some of the finest emeralds in
Europe, this sale falls most opportunely.
Among her stones are also one or two fine
green diamonds and green sapphires that
would bring a top price in the United
States, where there are few of these rare
gems, and those are very small.
The revival of interest in green stones
has prominently brought forward the pc
ridot, which is really the Indian chryso-
lite, and is a clear deep leaf-green in col
or, showing almost yellow beside the en-
erald which is blush in tone. A handsome
peridot is difficult to come by in this day,
when the art of cutting them is almost
lost, and a good specimen therefore fetches
quite as high a price as a nice emerald,
while many women prefer their more be-
coming yellow green color,
Both the emeralds and peridots are set
off with diamonds, or on the newest brace
let's, brooches and watches an emerald is
partly sunk in a bed of well-matched green
enamel, and then the enamef is encircled
in diamonds.
Women who cannot quite afford emeT-
aids or pelidots and yet wish TO share In
this universal wearing of the green, have
facbiOpa hlp h0tb rho phrUSn-
prase and beryl. These are classed as
semi precious stones, and are palely green,
like the waters of the great lakes, or di-
luted Creme-de-menthe. Good taste has
settled it that neither of these delicately
tinctured gems shall be set in diamonds,
for the dazzle of the more brilliant stone
drinks up the faint pretty color of the
central setting. Instead, beryls are often
encircled in pearls and the chrysoprase set
perfectly plainly in gold and the effect is
stuoed but very pretty.
While choosing green as the autumn
color, the fashionable women have been
also busy establishing some other styles
in jewelry. For instance, all the gate-top-
ped bag purses have been deliberately for.
gotten in behalf of small square gold and
silver shekel portemonnaies They are
pretty trifes, square in shape, not larger
than the palm of the hand, and have a fold
over the flap. The costliest are wrought
Oh liHy nat pltCeS VI DitSIlt tltNdt AlilhSu
together, each bit Of metal most exquisite
~ decorated in imitation of the stamp on
the ancient Hebrew coin. Fine gold bars
at the side hold the web of gold in the
farm of a square pocket and the hap-cover
buttons down with a jewel By a very
long chain this change purse is slung about
| the neck. This square shape for small
purses is so popular that some beautiful
| specimens are made of richly embossed
! leather, that is by some means colored and
| then has tiny jewels set here and there
| amid tile raised pattern.
/ Chatelaines waver in and out of fashion
with all manner of queer additions to. and
curtailments Of their pendant furniture.
| A bag and a mirror is about all the taste
| full woman will wear hanging from her
| belt now. The bag is the shape of the
| purse described above, only a triie larger
| and of either metal or leather. The mir