The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-01-04
FASHION

scarcely account for the unequalled
jewel display of the past season. At
the opera this week and at some of
the recent charitable entertainments
the dances for the benefit of the Stony
Void Sanitarium, for example-the
girls and women, many of whom j
know to be only moderately wealthy.
were all but regal in pearls that, if
real, must have cost thousands of dol
lars. Since the widely admired pearls
OF the Duchess of Manchester were
found to be limitations, one is naturally
inclined to be suspicious of those be
longing to young women whose fathers
are not millionaires. 1t was an acct
dent that caused the expose of the
Duchess, who might otherwise have
handed down her pearls to future gen.
eratiOns as priceless heirlooms, as they
are said to defy detection save by the
most skilled experts.
There We're several young women at
the opera on Monday night with pear
shaped vallieres, large and irridescent,
apparently fiawiess. springing in each
instance from a calyx of small dia-
monds. If these jewels had been gen.
uine they would have cost fabulous
sums-far more than the practical
fathers of these girls would think of
expanding on unnecessary adornment.
The limitations cost less than one
fourth the value of the real, and, de-
plorable as il may be to confess it,
there is little doubt that these fash
ionable butterflies are practicing a
pretty little deception. A necklace
reaching halfway to the waist, and
worn by the sister of British peeress
of unlimited wealth. was composed of
small fresh-water pearls, five strands
in all, knotted at intervals with a very
unique effect. The pearls were bril-
liant, very irregular in shape, and each
about the weight of a grain of wheat.
The pendant for this work of art was
an oval solitaire diamond.
One of the dark-haired debutantes
at the Whitney ball wore as a valliere
a heart-shaped amethyst set i'm tiny
diamonds, with a diamond bow-knot at
the top Ii was suspended from a deli
cate chain of gold. The collarettes Of
many strands of small pearls are made
up largely of the manufactured article
mixed with the real. and it is almost
impossible to distinguish the one from
the other. The elaborate barrettes for
the hair are almost always limitations
They serve their purpose quite as well,
are just as pretty, and, best of all, one
does not have to be so uneasy for fear
OF losing them. The bracelet and ear
ring have come to stay, as was evil
denced at the horse show. Not, how
ever, the old style of either. The
bracelets are often merely heavy bands
of dull gold with gems inlaid. and they
are exquisite One worn at a public
dinner party not long ago was of heavy
gold, widening toward the middle,
where great turquoise matrix and a
solitaire of equal size We're imbedded
I have seldom seen anything richer or
more elegant
Sapphires and diamonds alternating
across the top half or all the way
round are also very effective Another
very new bracelet consists of a gold
chain, upon which five or six stones.
cut Indian fashion. are strung at reg
ular intervals. leaving one pendent at
the fastening. Those in which turquoise
matrix is used are very pleasing, par
ticularly if one has a necklace or
lorgnette chain to match. Earrings
have been adopted this winter by nine
out of ten modish women. Nowadays
one does not have to go through the
torture of ha wing nne's ears niarced