The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-09
Deep Significance of New York
Women's Jewels.
THE HONEYMOON CHAIN
EVERY STONE CONTEMPORARIES
DAY OF SPECIAL HAPPINESS.
Mourn By Wearing Crystal Hearts
New York Women Mourn Loss of
Animal Magnetism-so Southern Wo-
men Possess It-Collect-o of Eyes,
Miniatures, Dainty Slippers.

Sentiment is still ardently cherished
in New York society that votes itself
aristocratic Investigate, for instance
the jewel boxes of many fine ladies',
and you will discover that their favor
tie ornaments have a deeper signiti-
canoe than the desire for decoration. To
substantiate this it is easy to cite the
honeymoon chains, the crystal locketS
! and the cameo brooches that appear so
popular. A honeymoon chain is sure
| to adorn the neck of every neWly-mar-
! ried woman, especially when she comes
back from her bridal trip. Mrs George
| Vanderbilt, Mrs. Clarence Mac!-ay and
| Mrs. John Livermore all have them, the
| links of gold and the stones three,
seven. nine, fifteen, nineteen or twenty
one in number, and widely varied.
Mrs. George Vanderbilt had the first
chain, and the lovely stones in it are,
some of them, very precious and beau
/ tiful some mere brown pebbles. They
all commemorate a day of special hap
piness in her honeymoon travels, and
her husband gave her every stone.
There was a day in Vienna that is
marked by a rich emerald; there was
one on the shores of an Italian l=!-e
registered by tiny round shell-whtte
pebble. and one at Capri recalled by
When Mrs. Vanderbilt came home with
her chain all the doting young husbands
adopted the. pretty idea, and some of
the chains are of gold punctuated with
beautiful polished bits of black or
pink marble, granite, crystal, agate
m0onstones and river pearls reapeG
from a bridal tour through our own
states.
MEMORIAL, JEWELRY.
Queen Victoria established the prece-
dent for the cameo bracelets and
brooches, for it is the good widows Gus
tom to have the head of every one of
her beloved children and grandchildren
delicately carved and set in jewels be-
fore their marriage, so in case of death
or wild seas should part her from them
she can wear and contemplate their
carved likeness. Now, when a fashion,
able woman weds it is her filial duty to
sit for cameo portrait, set the little
work of art as wearing ornament,
and present the same to the berCSVed
mother. Mrs. Oliver Belmont is fire.
quently seen wearing a lovely cameo of
her daughter, the duchess; Mrs. Letter
owns a bracelet showing the delicate
features of the vicerene of India, and
Miss Helen Gould has a charming ca
meo of the Countess Castellane.
Most lovely and tender though is the
sentiment that cllngS about the crystal
hearts that are nowadays the substi-
tutes for the dear, ugly, old-style hair
brooches. Great ladies in Paris first
wore crystal hearts circled with pearls
or diamonds. The hearts are cut in
facets of the clearest crystal, and in
their transparent depths a lock of hair
from the head of a dead loved one q
sealed. No one knows just how the hair |
is placed in the solid lump of crystal, |
save the French maker, and an enor- |
mouSly wealthy American woman who |
lost her son on the hunting field had |
the first locket in New York; since |
then the French maker has reaDed a |
harvest of American dollars. There is !
no danger of the locket reliquary be-
coming vulgariZed, for it costs $500 to
have one of these small crystal cases
made for hair without including any |
ieweled setting.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM. /
A famous foreigner who visited New |
York last year lauded the American |
women to the skies. He thought them |
the wittiest, most accomplished, most |
beautiful and admirably dressed, viva
cious creatures, but he found them
hard
They are dazzling, but they are too
impassive, too self-centered, too bent on
their minds at the expense
of their hearts; in short, they have no
animal magnetism" said this observer.
Their tears do not come easily. their
bushes are rare, their voices are ral5
and clear, and, if you will allow me"