Show RUBY IS JULY BIRTHSTONE II I I Gem Has Been Associated Through the I Centuries With Some Remarkably Quaint Superstitions The Time ruby Is the birthstone of July It ItUs was Us associated In ancient times with many many queer superstitions How these ese old fancies originated or how they could have been palmed off oft on the public public pub pub- lic it Is to Imagine The fact that the common people had hud Implicit faith In them proves how very much more credulous the world once was than It is ISI today toay For or Instance the ancients belh believed ed that if It a n ruby were worn about the tho neck It conferred the tlc power of seeing In the dark One wonders what monumental monumental monumental mon mon- faker started this conceIt conceit conceit con con- and for what purpose It was generally generally gen gen- believed however po possibly because be be- because be because cause rubles rubies were costly and the common common common com com- mon people could not test the matter for themselves The ruby also was supposed to be a n talisman against evil spirits the time plague and poison n. n By the de deepening pening h of its color It forewarned Its wearer against impending misfortune If It tied upon the forehead in do a linen linen- cloth it was was' believed to be a specific for cU disease ills dis ease of ot the Brooklyn eye e eye Brooklyn Eagle 1 |