The sun., 1919-08-17

PERSONAL adornment in the
way Of chains, necklaces, bracelets,
earrings. finger rings, buckles and
beads, and the fabulous sums men will
spend to provide US with these en-
trancing things, need we smile when
We consider those we call our savage
sisters? The fashion of necklaces has
persisted through the ages and just
now RACES up and down the land to an
extent We have never before seen.
One Of the newest gowns from
France shows a fabric Of white thickly
encrusted with strands OF silver bro
caded through and through the back
ground. The only ornamentation on
this frock Is a strand Of coral beads
about an inch wide which is looped
about the neck. A girdle of the same
encircles the waist, and looping in
front falls quite to the hem of the
skirt, where two heavy tassels Of the
beads finish it. AS this is a new fad
we shall doubtless see it everywhere.
because ii is a lovely fad. The use of
coral is not new, Of course, but coral
has had vogue for the past year un-
precedented.
An Interesting Necklace.
One OF the interesting bead neck
, laces is made of blue and white china
beads from the Staffordshire potteries
in England-this is, indeed, one Of the
most interesting fads of the moment,
and many women are having their
china necklaces made to order in
strings of glazed beads in just the en-
act colors desired. Emerald green is
a preferred color linked with tiny bits
of deeper green.
II Is astonishing the sort Of things
we are swinging around our necks-
incense burners. wee hand grenades
and the queerest plaques of paradise
birds. peacocks and parrots. They are
most interesting and certainly start
ling. The beauty Of these ornaments
If beauty It may be called-lies in
the very vivid colors and the very
unusual forms and designs; for, as
say. We seem to be turning back to
the days Of Egyptian princesses and
other remote beauties who hung eew-
gaws and amulets and charms about
their threats and arms for the undoinx
of masculine admirers and the envy
OF feminine sisters.
The quaintest OF amulets are dis
played at every turn. and now that the
quaint little Nanette and Rintintin
have somewhat subsidized. from the
Juror they created we see the "all
seeing eye" of midas mysterious
creeds swinging from a porcelain
strand as weird in color as can be
and In size as large as walnuts. The
all seeing eye" Is supposed to show
our relation with a wise and bench
cent Providence which directs all our
ways ,and averts those harmful things
because the one eye hand painted on
small porcelain background shows
We have embraced the wisdom Of see
ing. Serpents in gold and silver and
bejewelled are entwined with gleam-
ing strands OF semi-precious stones
and worn not only as pendants but
as bracelets also.
Useful and Beautiful.
Really useful and beautiful is the
exquisite chain of tiny enamel beads
of pale pink threaded with silver links
and finished with a fiat locket of ex-
quisite enamel. On the outside OF the
enamel in n faint shadowy effect so
soft and exquisite one cannot recog-
ihze II except by close inspection as
the Madonna and Child. Inside the
little locket is a delicately wrought
rosary of silver. with the crucifix
very small and exquisitely carved.
This trinket is really a work of art
and so unusual and beautiful that
every woman would be pleased at pos
session. However, It is Of the passing
fancies intended to speak more par
ticularly-of those huge and resplen-
dent plaquesNof bright colored cellu-
loid and porcelain and brilliant stones
set on threads Of silver and reproduc-
ing every design under the sun.
Companioning these bizarre things
are the wide bracelets of dull silver or
of strands of gold and silver. Etrus-
can gold with its dull and deep shade
Is much used for these bracelets. which
came into demand when the short
sleeves grew shorter and shorter In
Paris. There Is a sort OF gold the
negroes in the South call Guinea
gold" and that. too. is very much in
demand when wrought into all sorts
of pendants. It Is brighter than
Etruscan gold and much thinner.
therefore not 30 expensive.
The exquisiteiy carved Fiorentine