Show PRECIOUS MANACLES Bracelets and necklaces signify manacles man-acles and chains but they typify the silken bondage of love in the ornamental ornament-al forms we know them Nothing is in worse taste than a lot of cheap bracelets i brace-lets or bangles and I rejoice they are seen these days but infrequently A simple band of gold fastened with the little padlock or the plain circle or porte bonheur may be worn at all times they are love tokens only I need scarcely say that bracelets and rings hould never be worn outside the gloves or necklace with a high gown It would be quite as fitting to wear YOU stockings outside your shoe a coronet outside your hat or your collar outside your fourinhand scarf A bracelet a necklace are ornaments for your arm and neck a glove and gown are coverings For an inscription I think the very prettiest is taken from Cymbeline I know of one adoring mother who had it I engraved inside a gold circle which she iplaced upon her daughters arm It is a manacle of love I place it upon this fairest prisoner Wellbred young girls are limited as to jewelsa string of pearls for the slender neck a ring with a natal stone or an ornament torquoise and pearls i a little gold love manacle about the wrist that is all and quite enough until un-til after marriage A bride may wear I for the marriage ceremony either diamonds I dia-monds or pearls never gold ornaments orna-ments I have said nothing of imitation jewels jew-els because I think it is understood that ladies do not wear them Precious stones have always had each one a meaning but their language has been forgotten or lost sight of apparently appar-ently for I could not find among the I most prominent jewelers one who had any but the vaguest ideas concerning them The ancients cared more for the meaning and talismanic qualities of a stone than for its actual beauty The language of stones cover every sentiment senti-ment and the natal stones are particularly particu-larly appropriate for birthday gifts |