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Show jopal there are two main classes: the milky "Hungarian" opal, which is shot with rainbow colors, and the dark blue, grey & black "Aus-trailian" "Aus-trailian" opal, flashing with fiery lights. The main source of opals today is Australia, where opal fields were discovered around the year 1903. The tourmaline, which in history his-tory had the power to dispel fears and melancholia, is found in almost al-most every color, - including dark green,' pink, red, blue, violet and brown. Mined in Brazil and Madagascar, Mad-agascar, it is versatile in its uses for jewelry. Particularly pleasing for a man's ring is a deep red tourmaline, known as rubelite. Were You Born In October? The opal and the tourmaline, October's birthstones, both signify signi-fy hope. Equally expressive of the season's gay coloring, each of them captures the brilliance of. a clear October day. Famous October birthdays belong be-long to U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and to a celebrated ex-president, Teddy Roosevelt, as well as to such international notables not-ables as Chiang Kai-Shek and Admiral Ad-miral Richard E. Byrd. Author Damon Runyan is also on the October Oc-tober birthday list, along with contemporaries in the theatre playwright Eugene O'Neill and the leading lady, Helen Hayes. The opal, one of the most mysterious mys-terious and beautiful of all the gems, has been treasured for centuries. cen-turies. Emperors and kings have worn it for its beauty and because be-cause it was said to guard their regal honor. The ancient Greeks believed its possession gave foresight fore-sight to its wearer, leading thus to its modern significance as a symbol of hope. Among the many variations of |
