New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-09-27
OLDTIME C4WEOS.
Girls of To-day Like Them Just as
We'll.

In oIdtme romances the hero Of the story was
pretty sure. some time in the Of it. to
present the heroine with a beautiful cameo-some-
thing unset that he had picked up in his travels,
cameo with n foundation of delicate seasheIl pink.
Just the shade Of the girls decately tinted
cheeks. Perhaps the girl OF to-day wears deeper
roses in her cheeks. for she is healthy creature
out she will not object TO the same beautifully
toned and carved canoes. She may have any
number Of them. for they are being made up for
her In all the ways a twentieth century girl can
desire.
Let any girl who thinks that canoes are not COM
Ing into vogue visit the shops where antiques of
any kind to be found. and II there is cameo
in the collection the proprietor will ask her $50
$40 for il without moving an eyelash. And it is
the identical kind of a pin that a few years ago.
II it were heirloom descended from grand
mamma great grandmamma, she would have put
aside without thought. But the dealer in an
tiques knows his business. and he knows that with
a revival Of the old styles of dress. and with the
temperance OF oldtime materials, nothing is
appropriate in the way Of jewelry than the cameo.
The oldtime canoes made up chiefly in
brooches but those of to-day appear in many other
forms The largest are for belt clasps. and there
stickpins of canoes. cuff buttons in the pref
test shapes. cuff links and flexible bracelets which
charming.
1t is the carving not the color. which counts in
the cameo and that beautiful pink in which the
ronancer delighted may be had at the same price
the soft brown shades. 1t is all in the cutting
and the girl who, perhaps, does not much
for this as to have her canoes match the gowns
accessories that she wears, suits herself color
Bracelets are. perhaps, the newest thing in
canoes. They formed Of small medallion
canoes Of the stones being pink, and others
having the foundation in shades Of brown These
linked together in way which makes the
bracelet flexible and the result is a pretty trinket
which be bought for So. Some of the medalI-
ions little larger than the others. forming
larger bracelets but the price is usually the
Pins range in size from the small stiCkpin
through the variety Of small brooches up 10 the
larger big those our grandmothers wore
30 fasten their fchus at the throat their broad
embroidered turnover collars. The girl Of to-day
wears these pretty things. and the cameo
pins be used in the way. Brooches
range from s. up set in gold
The large canoes in belt clasps have an orna-
mental setting of silver silver gilt The silver
is effective with the canoes. Smaller canoes are
used IN pairs for belt clasps. Small oval canoes
made into cum buttons studs. and others
form cuff links made after the style of other mod
cuff links.
These canoes come, most Of them, from Naples.
where they cut by artists who learned the
work IN boyhood The big shells from which they
made go first into the hands OF a workman
whose business is TO cut them to the best advan-
tage. that every inch OF the shell which can
be carved IS utilized The inside. from which
canoes cannot be cut is used for other purposes.
Interesting little trnkets made from this
part-queer little pink brown dogs and pigs
and other animals. which have rings attached, SO
that they may he worn ornaments. They cost
only 30 cents.-(Washington star