The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-29
famous JEWELS
LEAVE PATH.OE
TROUBLE
III Fortune Seems to Follow
Fate of Owners Of Royal
and Celebrated Gems.
By MARGERY REX.

Written Tor CO0mOpOHtona News SERVICE
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-From q
heather idols. flaming forehead
once was stolen a huge blue stone.
A stone that has cast the cold light
of destruction on all who have worn
it since the Hope Diamond.
When a Bourbon quarreling with
his king found another ruler, EN-
peror Charles, ruler of Spain, Ger
many and the two Americas, more
sympathetic, strings of pearls pass
ed between them to tie the new
friendship. Duke Charles de Bour-
Dor wore the bauble around his
neck. at a time before jewels be-
came q decoration for women ex-
clusively-the Bourbon necklace.
In the late fifteenth century a
queen Of Spain pawned her jewels
so that the country we live in
could be discovered.
Murder Of the ROmanOffs.
In our own time. the Romanoffs
were murdered, their jewels sold to
raise money for a new government 3
conflicts. Before our time. Cath
crime II Of Russia wore the very
pearls that were torn from the
more recent Czarina's neck-pearls
which now happen to decorate a
Detroit Inillionaire's daughter, Mrs.
Delphne Dodge Cromwell.
Consider the power and price Of
the real articles.
Mrs. Peter Goelet derry. Of Wash
ington, D. c., has just acquired a
necklace of black pearls, the most
perfect of its kind in existence. For
them she paid 100000 to Prince
Felix Yousoupoff, who brought
them out OF Russia.
The late Prince Anastasia OF
Greece, in 1906, when she was plain
Mrs. Leeds, Of Newport, dealt a
blow to the popular craving for dta-
monds by wearing a 100000 pearl
necklace.
Mrs. George w. Vanderbilt owns
a 100000 pigeon-blood ruby neck
lace. Mrs. Leland Stanford Sc.
cured for $274.0O0 a blue diamond
necklace, once worn by Queen
Isabella. In the pearl necklace Of
Mrs Ebert H. Gary are five
strands, each worth 100000.
Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont has a
belonged to Empress Catherine of
possesses a $500, 600 diamond and
ruby chain. In 1912 Edward T.
Stotesbury gave his wife pearls
to the value of $500, 900.
None of these jewels bring any
curse to their fair owners except
the necessity Of constantly guard.
ing them.
Pearls Enhance Beauty.
Pearls enhance beauty. Diamonds
are useful to intimidate, socially.
Few diamonds, however, intimi-
date their owners. But that is just
what made the Hope diamond IA
nous. Since Andre Tavernier stole
1t from an East Indian idol in the
seventeenth century, II has brought
bad luck to all it's owners.
Nine. Montespan, to whom Louis
XIV gave the gem after buying it
from Tavernier, was supplanted by
her rival, Nine. de Mainterfon.
Finally Marie Antoiuette came to
wear it. She was guiNotined. and
her friend, Princesse de Lamballes,
who once borrowed the stone of ILL
fame, was beaten to death by q
revolutionary mob.
HI-Luck Still Follows.
The diamond of baleful glitter
was then bought by Henry Thorn
as Hope, whence it got its name.
May Yohe, who married Lord
Francis Hope, grandson of the
original owner, always blamed the
gem for her vicissitudes and she
uttered a warning when it passed
into the possession of Mrs. Edward
B. Mclean, of Washington, d. c.
It's reputation for trouble has been
well sustained in the Mclean fam.
lily.
Illness, lawsuits and the death
of a child followed in its train.
"YOU IMPUDENT THING"