The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-20

several drawings for one collection of
stones being required, just as an archi-
tect will give three or four plans for
house. OF the, fashionable stones, pearls,
according to the leading jewelers., are al
ways in demand, and are becoming more
and more difficult to match Rubies and
emeralds have become scarce, and con-
sequently more costly than diamonds,
which have for some cause or other gone
out of favor their decline being due, per-
haps to the fact that they are so easily
initiated The most snowy things on
view here were sent to England for the
coronation bazaar including three pearls
over half the size of a schoolboy's marble,
valued at $4,000 each. Also a string of
small but beautiful pearls for the modest
price of 100000, or 100000 if made into
a necklace. Then there are rub and dia-
mond dog collars galore, several tiaras
and pendants, one of the latter being COM
posed OF immense straw colOred Cape dia-
monds, looking, however, a bit snowy and
cheap in comparison with the. pearls
Also an extremely handsome cravate
made up of thousands of seed pearls
which, after being absolutely neglected,
are again coming into style. They are,
it seems being bought for baptismal and
first communion presents, and according
to report, are much worn by dowager
duchesses. Opals have gone out of
fashion, while the turquoise holds it's own.
EphemeraI Restaurant Popularity.
But to change the subject from purple
and fine linen, to food and drink, there
isn't restaurant in Paris where you
Can be served with as good a French din
ner as you can get in New York Each
place9 has it's speciality, even one res
taurant making a. feature of roast beef
which is served in such thin slices it must
be carved with a safety razor. So to get
1@4o DE-. .s.s-
have your consumme at one place, filet of
sole at another, an entree at a third, and
so on through the menu, only by the time
you reached the game you'd be famiShed
enough to go back to soup again. The
best restaurants are good the Indifferent
are fair, and even the hasheries are clean,
but there's nothing remarkable about any
of these either in the quality Of the food
or the service. For instance, at the
most famous; and incidentally the most
expensive restaurant in the Bots, they give
you such poor quality of damask nap
kin that: it SO covers you with red lint
that you:look for, all the world as if you d
been working overtime in a brick yard
Moreover, the public in the French cap
itaI is most capricious in the selection of
dining places, and very popular restaur-
ant this season, may year hence for no
accountable reason suffer from lack of
patronage, or the reverse may be the case
Take Maxim's for example: A few years
ago it was the most typical supper place
in Paris, in that it was thoroughly French
and few Americans or English ever went
there, possibly because they'd never
heard of it, But that naughty little
French farce 1.-THE Girl from Maxim's''
toured America from Portland, Me-. to
Portland, Ore, and now your countrymen
make appointments with one another to
meet at MaNimss on the train before
reaching Paris And when they get there
they find dozens Of their fellow citizens
looking and acting just like themselves,