WHEN YOU BUY JEWELLERY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19197, 13 June 1924, Page 10

WHEN YOU BUY JEWELLERY.

(Sifts of jewellery are common, so file jewellers and goldsmiths are making a great show, and precious slones are a nmchdiscu’sserl subject (says a writer in the World’s News). . The old soothsayers have it that diamonds have the property of sealing affections, a pretty conceit strongly bused on the traditional liking for diamonds as the favourite stones for betrothal rings. Sapphires, too, are happy stones. They are in all shades of blue, from the light cornflower to the dark ones so black that they are named “ink” sapphires The lighter ones are called feminine stones the dark masculine. Rubies are expensive and not so much given. Emeralds are the stones ot kings and queens. Opals have come into fashion again. Black opals arc used for pendants, the paler kinds for rings. Bearls are still a supreme fashion. Indeed, many smart women now ignore every other jewel possession hut their favourite string of pearls and deon jewelled earrings But if you want to give expression in your gift to the very latest jewel crazes do not omit black onyx, green jade, and red coral from your calculations. Those three stones of the hour are by no means inexpensive, when combined, as they now are, with diamonds and most exquisitely set. Onyx and jade are for the fair and auburn-haired, and the deep, old-fashioned red coral of Iho present yoguo is host for the dark-haired girl.