The age-herald., 1898-02-21
Copyright, 1S9s.l

It may be true that the head is uneasy upon which there is crown, but the average woman is uneasy just now if she cannot decorate her mahogany col ored locks with a diamond tiara. or at least with a pair of the kind of wings dedicated to Mercury. Never before since we called ourselves civilized have we gone so absolutely daft on the sub ject of jewels. They may be of all col ors and of every conceivable shape. It is not only possible to wear them in the evening, but as you are trotting around from one cup of tea to another you can decorate to a degree You can have on marvellous watch hanging from a most elaborate clasp. Five or six queer brooches can be put here and there up- on your bodice, a string of beads may be around your throat. and a long gold chain may have monocle on the end. Your gloves may hide many rings. Your bonnet pins are thickly jeweled. while the last chic touch is to have heavy velvet rosette. preferably purple, aeep crimson or black, on the left side of your bodice, in the center of which is a brilliant diamond button. At night the women glitter like icicles. I confess they look pretty. Most beautiful things in jewels are offered for her who has the ducats wherewith to buy. For the hair there is. first of all, the stately tiara. The tiara Is not becom- ing ornament, for it lacks coquetry and grace. It must be placed stiffiy on the head, because if it should get a little to one side it suggests nothing so much as Mrs. Yeaman's idea of mixed ale party But pair of Mercury wings in diamonds placed on the head of a wom- an who has her hair parted Madonna wise. on either side of her head" makes her not only thing of beauty, but Of fashion. Then, for @ woman who draws her hair, the beautiful black hair, in smooth bands, after the fashion of Cleo de Merode, there is flat band of dia- monds worn far forward with a pearl pendant framed in diamonds, which rests on the forehead. This style of coiffure requires that not only woman must be beautiful, but that she must look like a saint.
 Fortunately, as women are good &C., tresses it is easier to look like a saint than to be one. Most effective of all are the ornaments worn by the women who arrange their hair as did, little Mme Butterfly or the sad faced Mime. Chrysantheme. This hair must be ma hogany colored. and it is smoothly roll ed in an enormous pompadour all around the head, while just in the cen- ter, at the top, it is turned in high knot, held in place by tortoise shell combs having diamond heads and long gold chains that connect them with the diamond aigrette in front. This rests against a tiny black feather towering above the hair, glittering like the stars looking down on all the lovely little geishas in Nagasaki. Two women in New York wear their hair in this fash ion and look well. One is matron; consequently the diamond ornaments appear in her hair. She is pretty Mrs. Harry Gillig who was formerly Miss Crocker of San Francisco. Certainly the coiffure is most correct, and certain ly it is wonderfully becoming to her. The maiden who affects this remarkable style but who appears without the dia- mond ornaments, as is proper, is one of the beauties of the season, Miss Eff Potter. a dashing, stylish looking girl. She stands this rather unique way of arranging her hair very well, and as her locks are the proper color, the veritable mahogany, she may be said to have made no mistake in choosing the manner of arranging 1t.
 Take out the fashionable womens
 
 In days gone by the jewellers initiated in precious stones for my lady's benefit all the beautiful designs furnished by the heavens There was the sun in all its glory, the many stars, the moon in its fullness, the crescent moon in it's maiden beauty and all the wonders of the sky. Then he had all the beautiful flowers from which to choose his models but today he has changed all that. My lady is proudest of her latest posses sion, a coach and four, with gay party seated upon it in sapphires, diamonds and rubies. For this she pays $400 and 1t is pinned across the front of her tailor made frock. The horses are in diamonds, with fine gold harness; the coach is of sapphires and rubies; the lady on top with her open parasol, the gentleman who is driving and the men in the rumble are all wrough. ;n bril- liant gems. Next to this she values a fox in full run made entirely of dia- monds, or perhaps, if she is devoted to dogs, diamond greyhound or a French poodle made of gold and with his curls wrought out in diamonds. If she is a sportswoman, she wears black cock in diamonds, a snipe in diamonds or pheasant in diamonds. Her jeweler guarantees that each shall be correct.
 An ardent advocate of the bike may wear a brooch that initiates one, with the wheels all studded with precious stones, while the frame itself is of gold Next to these very sporty looking brooches there are fancied horrible beasties, beetles and bugs, with realistic serpents and wild looking fishes. But