The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-16
Custom BOOms Gem Trade in
Argentine Republic.
BUY FINERY, Then NECESSITIES
Homes in Poverty So WHEY
Can Be Adequately Jeweled.
For Hubby May Have Heaps OF
Love, but Shy on Coin.
BY MARGARET MASON
Written for the Topeka state Journal.
They say all diamonds
Come from Brazil.
But believe me you'll find that
1t ct

But believe me you'll find that
A lot stay there still
Rio De Janeiro, Oct. 16.-On every
hand in Rio de Janeiro you find clubs
the Jockey club. the Derby cluD'
the Engineers club, the Anglo-Amer1-
can club, the Naval club ETC. on ev-
cry hand in Rio de Janeiro you also
find diamonds and in every feminine
ear as well. Great blazing stones that
take your breath away and your cash
too if you attempt to acquire any
Kind hearts are more than cor
onets" would never be a popular mot
to here where earrings are more to De
desired than shoes. Positively It's
a poor ear indeed whose lobe doesn
sag with the weight of huge ruby,
emerald or sapphire surrounded by
diamonds. Even the poorest natives
and negresses, shambling along bare
footed or dumping along in the un-
calmly native shoes whose heavy wood
have a thick piece of leather across
the front for a toe hold. have their
ears all duded up in gold hoops.
Rings Denote Profession.
When it comes to rings no finger
is spurned. sighted or overlooked If
some poor little feminine finger does
happen to be shy its circling band of
jewels it looks almost indecently nude.
The men also affect several rings and
an deliberately jewelled one on the
first finger of the right hand is the
finger mark of a lawyer, doctor or
scholar.
Even affections are tested here by
a jewelled gauge and the depth of
mans passion for his better half is
shown by the number of jewels that
she wears This appealed TO me
strongly at first. Think how attract
i've TO have your husband in lieu of
pouring honeyed words in your ear
using earrings instead and pressing
tiara rather than a kiss on your brow
To give you a precious Jewel rather
fine points but unfortunately there is
another setting to this jeweled adora-
ton
Loving Arm or Necklace?
People of moderate means actually
put themselves in a poverty stricken
condition in order that the wife may
make an adequately jeweled impress
sion. They pinch and scrimp and save
and give their hearts blood for a
pigeon blood ruby. Just imagine go
| just to show the neighbors how crazy
your husband is about you
/ guess after all it's better to have
loving arm around your neck than
diamond necklace.
| Aside from boasting the most bril-
| liant blue white diamonds in the
world. gorgeous sapphires, rubies and
emeralds, Brazil makes scintillatine
rainbow showing of semi-precious
! stones. Tourmalines, green and pink,
| aquamarines, amethysts, topazes, yell
| low and rose, turquoise, opals and
agates. In fact, there are several at
| tractive little shops devoted exclusive
| ly to the sale of these native Brazilian
! semi-precious stones As Tor the gen.
| eraI jewelry stores they are even more
plentiful than saloons in New York
| and vie in numbers here with the to-
| ba ccO Shons and lotfery nIaCPS
Iride-cent Bugs and Jewels.
| Even the birds of the air and the
| bugs of the earth are pressed into
| service as jewelry. Ont of the many
/ hard-shelled Brazilian beetles, unique
scarf pins. hat pins. brooches, neck
| laces and bracelets are made. Tiny
/ opalescent beetles too fragile to use in
this manner are mounted in groups
| of two and three between disks OF
| used as pendants. Some of the
| gorgeous butterfly wings arc also used
| in this manner. Perhaps the most
! unique and attractive of all these con-
ceits is the tiny ruby and bronze OF
green and gold head of a humming
| bird, its beak sheathed in gold set in
! the middle of a pair of gold metal
| outspreading wings on a bar pin.
/ Other jewels as omnipresent and
| multitudinous as the kind the lapi-
/ darieS recognize are those of which
! Cornelia once boaSted.
Little sons and daughters are in
| deed very popular in Rio and no fam
/ lily seems complete without at least
! four or five. They are bright little
/ blackeyed kiddies, but all seem to
have a tendency toward a pasty pallor
rather than the healthy brown or APP
pie red cheeks of our own husky North
American offspring. This is due nc
! doubt to the fact that their misguided
: parents drag them at all hours to the
i cinemas and serve strong Brazilian
/ coffee and other heavy native dishes
/ Unfortunately and promiscuously to
/ tender tummies.
Rio kiddies all show a nonchalant
/ disregard for lingerie and unless they
be OF the "haute monde" indeed q
single garment suffices beautifully fol
their sartorial needs. This has the one
| drawback that it renders them very
open to the argument of a paterna
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