Year: 1875

great ones to which they are satellites.


This magnificent decoration, the value


of which cannot be less than $3.50, 900,


and which, if all the stones were of


the very first water, would command


more, nearly $200. 900, is merely an addi


ton to the long list of rich presents re-


ceived by Miss Sherman on her marriage


1t is compliment from the Khedive of
| Egypt TO the great soldier who made the
| great march to the sea.


We believe that Gen. Sherman could


not accept this present, but his daughter,


as she holds no Office of profit or trust


under the United States, may do so, al
| though the fact that her husband is in
the Federal service might, at least on
some old-fashioned grounds, be held to
| preclude her from receiving such very


valuable gift from a foreign potentate.


But apart from this consideration the
question presents itself, What will she do


with it? What does any lady who does
| not wear a crown, or at least coronet,
| when she is in full dress do with such "A
stupendous ornament as this? She may


keep it locked up, and on proper and


rare occasions feast h. eyes by looking
at 1t, or provoke the envy of her dearest
friends by exhibiting it to them. But
think of the anxiety accompanying such


possession! A guard ought to be


set over it night and day. AS to
wearing it the owner would, if she
had any taste or sense of con-


gruity, be utterly at a loss to find


any reason for SO doing. We have no
occasions here where such ornaments


are in place. Even in Europe they are
worn very rarely-only on state Occa-
sions or at some very grand festivity.
The notion that the noble women-the


female Markisses,n and such like-of


the Old World go about blazing in dia-
monds, even in the evening, is as absurd


and unfounded as the belief formerly
entertained that Kings and Queens wore
their crowns as other people wore their
hats. Diamonds or jewels of any kind,
except modest brooch, seal ring or
something of the kind, are scarcely ever
seen upon ladies of rank in Europe, ex-
cept on full-dress occasions, and then
they wear not a great deal, although
what they do wear is apt to be of the
very highest value and quality of its
kind. But diamonds or fine Jewels of
any kind on other occasions would be re-
garded among such people as evidences
of bad taste and even of inferior breeding.


1t is undoubtedly true that much of
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genuine American character-that, for
instance, which comes of long New En-
gland, or knickerbocker, or Southern
descent-is produced by travelling Amer
leans who have suddenly acquired
wealth, who have not had the advantage
of the best training at home, and who
suppose that, to produce good impress
sion and get among the best people, they
must make display of their pos
sessions. This duty is committed TO
the ladies of the party, and by
them, it must be confessed, it is gem
orally performed with thoroughness
and dash which are quite start
ling. The diamonds in which they are
occasionally seen at tables d'hote, even
in the morning, actually frighten some
of the very people upon whom they are
seeking to make favorable impression.
They would be astonished to learn that
the rather dowdylooking person in
somewhat d1ngy-1ooking wrapper, whom
they passed in the corridor, was the wife
of one nobleman and the descendant of
a coroneted line of ancestors. This new
diamond necklace may be very nret.;,T5,tn
as2k eeiked a. it nov z aimes' psa'n