The Prescott daily news., 1917-11-23
EARRINGS POPULAR
 GOTHAM THIS YEAR
(By Margaret Mason, written for the
 United Press.)

OHlIeu ITeSS.)
 She had tear-drop in her eye.
 An ear-drop in her ear.
 Shed let the other ear-drop drop.
 And that explains the tear.
 New York, Nov. 23.-If you ask any female to lend you her ears these days she will be forced to lend you her earrings along with them, for an ear without dangling ear-drop or a but ton of pearl smuggling close to its pink lobe IS scarcer even than sugar or coal. Perhaps you are laboring under the delusion that when you have a pair of stockings, shoes and gloves to match your new gown, your toilette is com plete. You're all wrong. 'Twere bet ter far to be gloveless than earring less, and down in Greenwich Village they would even rather pass up the hosiery. Earrings for everyday in the week or for every dress in your outfit are the crying needs of the moment and the mode. There are long drops of jet, jet balls bobbing on chains or round and oval hoops of jet, jet but tons or pearl buttons and pearl balls bobbing on chains to wear with the smart gowns of black and white satin or velvet now so chic.
 Turquoise, lapis lazula, and imita- tion sapphire offer shades of blue in all shapes to go with yourr frocks of the blues. There is amber, clouded or clear. and also eardrops of chased and filigree gold for your yellowish toil- cites jade, crysophrase and imitation emerald for the green girls and coral, pink and red, for the rosy robes while new hoops, ovals and odd shaped pen dants of tortoise shell offer shades for any frock that is done brown
 For the evening oriental effects of every color in the rainbow enhanced with brilliants are guaranteed to make even the dullest girl bright, if she has an earfull.
 It is true that Suffrage has at last forged the figurative letters and shackles off the New York woman. but she is seemingly content to walk abroad heavy laden with her head and neck bent beneath the load of literal chains Her head sags with the bur den of the heavy pendants dangling from her ears and her neck bows be- meath the weight of heavy links of metal aternated with hunks of col ored stones.
 The span of years between the prim- tive cave woman of the dark ages and the enlightened Suffragette of 1917 has been bridged with lings of gold and silver and the eternal woman re- vels in her bauble chains.
 Whether it is bear claw necklace worn by blanketed Indian or Tiff any necklace sported by a Duchess, it's quite the same effect, assure you, 1 only a question of a little different setting and a little different set.
 Most of the elaborate chains, pend ants and necklaces that the smartest shops are showing have the Oriental colorings, shapes and tendencies. Chi nese seals, carvings, tassels, worries and jades vie with Egyptian scarabs, slabs of lapis, jade or toruquoise cut deep with heiroglyphics from some gummy mummes tomb Some of the stunning new Egyptian earrings are large dangling oval slabs of light or dark blue, green or black composition with Egyptian figures of Sphinxes, Nautch girls or lotus bearing beauties set on in embossed gold or silver. You naturally expect all this junk to be derived from the Orient where folks dress more in beads and bangles and less in wooden union suits and golashes in wet weather but 1 got shock when browsing among the jew elry counters of a smart Fifth Avenue shop the other day.
 A display of ornate and barbaric necklaces, earrings, pendants, brace lets and rings, carved, colorful, tas- salled and tinted quite along the same lines as all the similar stuff from China, Egypt, Peru, Beluchistan and where not. was labeled "Esquimeau jewelry" Something new. "Wel it