The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-26

spurious jewel when they see It, but they
don't
Even an expert would be apt to he de-
Ceived occasionally II he bought stones
ocnand. To illustrate:
The other day a woman Of wealth who
has many handsome jewels, among which
are some costly pearls which l sold her,
came In here TO SEQ about new setting for
a corsaRe ornament. She was wearing
string Of small pearls outside her collar
which were Of an exquisite plnkish tint;
that 10, thoy were neither blue nor cream
white, but represented a shade which Is ex-
tremely rare and very costly.
Let me compliment you on your pearls,
| said TO her.
'shs looked surprised. then laughed and
finally said:
DO you really mean that?
Why, certainly / do looking at the
Beautiful
gave them that pink tint mysef.'
DO you mind telling me the secret'
" Not In the least. for think 1t a huge
Joke You see, In order TO save my best
pearls ! bought this string, which thought
an excellent imitation until friend the
other day said bluntly that she thought
they looked altogether too waxy. Soon
after 1 went TO the manicuTe's and while
there got an idea. ] went home and one
by one went over the pearls with pink nail
powder, polishing them exactly an | would
my nails, and now everybody, youincluded,
Is envying me my pearls
'Perhap s the easiest way 10 tell genuine
stones, or rather the best quality
at mes, Is by the color and before they are
set. Often a setting is arranged TO give
, a particular tint TO a stone, There are
stones which can't be guaranteed not TO
change color, like turquoise, for instance.
The highest priced turquoises are a
perfect blue. with scarcely a trace Of green
about them, Here IL a string Of beads I
consider perfectly matched, which costs
sli5o, As turquoises 60 they are perfect
in color and size.
Hero Is O small string just long Oh
to reach around the neck and clasp behind,
which costs only Sis. and this string in
which the beads are larger Is 3l75. SO far
as size goes the heads In the cheaper string
are perfectly matched, but q keen eye can
discover that here and there il one with
white or green tinge In il. In other words.
every bead in the string isn't the perfection
Of tint.
But supposing the larger, the perfectly
blue string, is purchased to-day, l can't
guarantee that the color OF the turquoises
will not change to a greener tint before a
year ts out, for this reason; tuTquoises are
sensitive and they respond quickly to the
health condition Of the wearor.
Let a woman with a more than norma
QuhllNlAN Oh CERTAIN hNlNlH III UtI uloOu Wtdl
turquoises and they will deepen in color
and go a shade on from a perfect blue
toward a green blue. There are people
however who prefer the green blue TO the
pure blue turquoises, even though the
latter cost more.
THE pigeon blood ruby stands at the
head Of the ruby family in cost and beauty
"a color 10 bright and clear that II il diff
fcult TO describe. and as a rule the lighter
color ruby fetches higher price than thC
darker one. Here Is a light ruby how.
ever, which, although very brilliant anC
beautiful has flaw in it which lowers its
price considerably.
The haw is a slight tinge Of purple
somewhere in its heart which gives TO the
deep rose red Of the stone a purplsh tint
The average buyer would call Il perfect
but a connoisseur knows better IL Is les,
to be desired even than this much smaller
ruby, which Is trife too dark 10 come ur
to perfect requirements
I'm emeralds it is the medium shade