Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-15
OIL D-TIME CAME0S
GIRLS OF TODAY LIKE THEM JUST
AS WELL.
Romantic Ornaments Of Our Grand
mothers Have Many
Uses.
Written for The Evening Star.

written Tor The Evening Star.
In old-time romances the hero of the
story was pretty sure, some time in the
course of it, to present the heroine with a
beautiful cameo-something unset that he
had picked up In his travels, a cameo with
foundation of delicate sea shell pink. just
the shade of the girls own delicately tinted
cheeks. Perhaps the girl Of today wears
deeper roses in her cheeks, for she is a
healthy creature, but 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 coming into vogue visit the shops where
antiques of any kind are to be found and
If there is a cameo in the collection the
proprietor will ask her $50 or $40 for 1t
without moving an eyelaSh. And 1t Is the
Identical kind of a pin that few years
ago, If 1t were an heirloom descended from
grandmamma or greatgrandmamma, she
would have put aside without thought.
But the dealer in antiques knows his bust
ness, and he knows that with revival of
the old styles of dress, and with the reap
pearance of Old-time materials, nothing is
more appropriate in the way Of jewelry
than the cameo.
The old-time canoes were made up chief
in many other forms. The largest are for
belt clasps. and there are stick pins Of
canoes, cuff buttons in the prettiest shapes,
cuff links and flexible bracelets which are
charming.
1t is the carving, not the color, which
counts in the cameo, and that beautiful
pink In which the romancer delighted may
be had at the same price as the soft brown
shades. It is all in the cutting, and the
girl who, perhaps, does not care so much
for this as to have her canoes match the
gowns or accessories that she wears suits
herself as to color
Bracelets are, perhaps, the newest thing
in canoes. They are formed of small me-
dallion canoes, some of the stones being
pink, and others having the foundation in
shades Of brown. These are linked to-
gether in way which makes the bracelet
flexible, and the result is a pretty trinket
which can be bought for SIS. Some of the
medallions are a little larger than the
others. forming larger bracelets, but the
price Is usually the same.
Pins range in size from the small stick
pin through the variety of small brooches
up to the larger ones as big as those our
grandmothers wore to fasten their fichus
at the throat or their broad embroidered
turnover collars. The girl of today wears
these same pretty things and the cameo
pins can be used in the same way. Brooch
es range from S. up, set in gold.
The large canoes in belt clasps have an
ornamental setting of silver or silver gilt
The silver is effective with the canoes
Smaller canoes are used in pairs for belt
clasps. Small oval canoes are made into
cuff buttons or studs, and others form cuff
links made after the style of other modern
cuff links.
These canoes come, most of them, from
Naples where they are cut by artists who
learned the work in boyhood. The big
shells from which they are made go first
into the hands of a workman whose bust
ness is to cut them to the best advantage
so that every inch of the shell which can
I, t.,
canoes cannot be cut is used for other pur-
poses.
Interesting little trinkets are made from
this part-queer little pink or brown dogs
and pigs and other animals which have
rings attached so that they may be worn
as ornaments. They cost only 80 cents