Evening star., 1925-12-13
BY MARY MARSHALL.

Y AIDES In India solve the prob
lem of keeping up with the
ever-changing fashions in jew.
elry by having resident jewel
erS who can change the setting
OF precious stones while one waits.
That is in every household of preten-
ton. II is said. there is a jeweler with
enough of a workshop and enough
tools to make it possible to make over
seWelry in short order. 1t must be
selected gems would be as satisfactory
as a large collection. II every day In
the week they could be worn in differ
ent and new settings
The Western woman, IL would seem,
tries to solve her problem of keeping
up with jewelry fashions and of pro-
viding the necessary variety In her
ornaments by buying limitations.
Late last Summer at Deauville the
fashion for imitation jewelry amount
ed to yeritable rage-despite the fact
that there seemed to be something OF
q reaction against pearls that were
not pearls, diamonds that We're not
diamonds and emeralds and rubies
produced IN laboratory.
And fashionable women-some Of
them-have kept up with this ex-
travagant use of imitation jewelry.
The interesting thing about it seems
TO be that they do not even wish to
fool any one into thinking II is real.
They wear whole strings of emeralds
any one Of which would occupy place
of honor In an imperial crown. And
they wear three or four strings of
pearls any one Of which would tax
the resources of nultimillionaire
In a volume OF "reminiscences Eliza
beth Marbury gives her recipe for get
ting within the inner circle of the So
called fashionable set''--a feat which
she does not consider at all difficult.
Among other things, she says: BE
well dressed, but never too we'll
dressed. Wear small pearls and not
large ones" Apparently the thought
that any aSpirant to social advance
ment might wear imitation pearls
never even entered Miss Marbury's
head. Once woman would have
thought that she had sacrificed every
claim to smart society II she wore any
imitation Jewelry whatever-and was
caught at 1t. If you did wear imita.
ton pearls at all you wore them small
small enough SO that people might
consider them real. If too large no
one would be deluded. Even when you
could afford real pearls you chose
small ones-lest some one might imag-
inc for a moment that they were vile
limitations
There are some women who ap-
parently have gone back to this idea
and for awhile there was quite a de-
nland for small imitation pearls. The
idea was that If they were small
enough you might persuade your
friends that after all you had inherited
or bought a string of real pearls.
But the really smart thing now.
sdayS is to delude nobody. II you
found that piece of green glass In
& setting of brass gave just the right
touch and lent real distinction to your
costume-why, you'd wear It. wouldn't
you?-instead of little ornament of
small diamonds in a tiny setting of
platinum that didn't really suit your
costume. Said woman at Deauville
last Autumn; You can buy string
of pearls over cocktail at cafe for
about 100 francs, and you can invest
similar sum In a monster emerald
for clasp and step at once into the
ranks of bejeweled beauty"
There are still. however, numerous
women who very. very much prefer
real jewelry to imitation. and some
few there be who, like their grand
mothers, would sooner wear none II
II cannot be real.
A good enough rule IN buying jew
elry might be this. If you merely
want to satisfy a passing fancy-to
follow a fad that must be fleeting-
then buy imitations-fairly good irni-
tations. but still limitations. For the
more precious sort Of jewelry choose
pieces of the sort that depend not on
conformity to a passing standard. but
on intrinsic beauty as we'll These
pieces can never go out of style
though they survive a hundred gen.
erations.
New fashions have brought about
new ways of using stones and pre-
cious metal. They have even brought
about the demand for new types Of