The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-17
ART IN JEWELRY IS SHOWN, IN READ co.
 EXHIBIT OF GEMS

Odd gems and semi-precious stones are very interesting, as from earliest times certain minerals and stones have been credited with magic quail ties, and even the wisest of men and women have treasured their tailsmans and amulets. That is true today to some extent and many people have favOrite stones to which some part1c- ular sentiment is attached.
 Everybody likes to have his birth stone as a personal possession, even if he be without superstition, and there is always a certain charm about odd and unusual gems in odd settings.
 At present there is displayed at the Read jewelry section a remarkable collection of rings. brooches, scarf pins, sleeve links, necklaces which are hand made and of original design. Many of the stones are American, from the West, some are from Mex ico and a few from the Orient. There are queer things that those persons who have penchant for the un- usual in ornaments will enjoy seeing. He who possesses one of the odd rings of lapis lazuli, tourmallne or one set with a flat slab of bloodstone of sinister look, may be certain that there will not be another like it, for MT. Won Car1esberg from whose ate Her in Westerly, R. l., these pieces
  tings alike. There are scarabs carved from lapfs lazu1i, b1oodstone and onyx, as strange Joking and probably as sacred as any that ever. came from the land of the Nile.
 A large brown tigers eye the size of a penny is carved in the semblance of sphinx, a dark mysterious face. This is set in antique silver. A warm beautifully co1ored topaz, oval in oh iS hu fW0 b9rOche pearls. This is set in gold. There is a gooseberry ring and brooch. Now a gooseberry as a gem is a, polished chrysophrase, light green, clear, showing veinings like a gooseberry and so natural one holds it to the light to look for seeds. And it ought to bes our on the tongue. Both these gooseberries are set in pale greenish gold, the ring in "a graceful basketry or lattice work that is very attractive. A unpublished chrysophrase is a pale lustreless greensboro, also set in g. ring of bright silver, beautiful thing. Of tourmalines, there are many, and two companion stones, one light and one dark appear in gold ring There is a blue onyx, a large oval stone, opaque, withmi sty lights, set in antique silver. This looks dis tantly related to an amethyst
 Turquoises there are a plenty plain ones of heavenly blue and matrices variously co1ored. There is an old saying that turquoise is a guard agaist the evil eye, and women of the Orient, especially those of Thibet, regard the turquoise as an amulet of peculiar sanctity. The power of the turquoise is still credit ed in rural portions of Britain today for it is believed that if two persons station themselves on the opposite banks of frozen stream, on Christ mas Day, and each one slides a tur- quoise to the other across the ice, both of them will be blessed with good fortune for the following year and will prosper in all their under takings.
 One very beautiful necklace in this group has eight clear and dark anne thysts strung on slender gold chain. There are baroche pearls ad pearl ''blisters" set in bright antique si1- yer. Not the least interesting part of this exhibit is that many of the stones are American and placed in their beautiful settings right in New ngland.