The Washington herald., 1911-11-28

but their effectiveness hardly coppen-
safes the mother who intrusts her child
TO her care for the anxious tremors
with which she watches the weighty
limb handle her offspring! Rebekah's s
bracelet, which the Bible records as
weighing ten shekels Cor five ounces) was
a mere bauble in comparison.
One could wish that Lfvy had entered
into a more detailed description Of those
golden bracelets. worn by the Sabine
soldiers and which tempted Tarpeia by
their beauty to betray the Roman citadel
Into their hands. They too must have
been considerably massive for when they
repaid the treason by hurling the orna-
ments at her head, their weight was
sufncient to crush the traitress to death.
During the fifteenth and sixteenth CEN
turtles bracelets were worn in Europe by
both sexes and used largely as love
tokens. A notable bracelet was that
presented to Queen Elizabeth of Eng
land by the Earl of Leicester It was
of gold, set with rubies and diamonds
and in the clasp was a small watch,
adorned on the case with a large Iozenge
diamond
The most famous bracelet of modern
days is no doubt one in the possession
of the Shah of Persia. 1t formerly be-
longed to the Emperor of China, and
contains the famous stone known as the
Sea of light" a diamond Of dazzling
brilliance and great size.
If the bracelet is ever to regain the
favor in which 1t was once held, greater
art must go to the making of it than
Is the case at present. Modern dress,
with its elbow-sleeve for day wear,
adapts itself admirably to the display OF
hrppPlaf ;s
reason why it should again become a
popular form of ornament Even the
black velvet bracelet, with jeweled clasp,
so much in vogue in the Victorian era,
is preferable to the machine-made prod
uct of to-day, while the plated hair or
nament at least has something of the
symbolical in its nature. Much might
be done by individual handicraftsmen.
and by stimulating originality of design
in this direction among the pupils of
our schools of art.
According to the Vossische Zeitung,
the German crown prince is very in
dignant with a civil service official, who
had asserted that she spells her name
wrong, tby the way, the poor fellow is
right, and that it ought to be CaeciIie,
the name being derived from the Latin
''Caecilia'). This is the story: Owing
to the transfer of the crown prince to
Danzig, every father in the old city
who has been presented lately with
daughter wants to name the girl CeciIie,
in honor of the crown princess
Now, 1t came to pass that staid Dan
zig burgher had baby girl added to
his family on the crown princess BIRTH
day. He rushed off to the registrar of
births and promptly wrote down the
name Cecilie. Two days later he was
summoned to the registrars office and
was informed that there is no such
name as Cecilie in the German language,
and II there was II is not in use in
Prussia. He could either spell the name
Caecilie, which" said the oficial, "is
good German" or he could change the
name.
Enraged at the insolence of the petty
official, the father got a court calendar
and showed the man that the crown
princess was so named. The Official said
that he did not care, the crown princess
had no business to spell her name that
way.
You wait Bit" said the father. Tn
teach you"
He went to the telegraph office and
sent telegram to the crown princess
relating the occurrence and asking her
to intervene against the insolent oficial
tyrant
The crown princess, who hates the very
name DanZig, since her husband has been
banished there, replied that her name IL
not going to be altered for any Danzig
official. II Cecilie is not German, II is
very soon going to become so.
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