Salt Lake Times | 1890-08-02 | Page 3 | A Few Words on Gems

A Few Words on (inms. ! Ever since Miss Edwards came to America and lectured on Egypt and made the fashionable woman feel that the lady mummy had in her time been a professional beauty, fond of dainty belongings be-longings and given to paint and rouge, to sweetmeats and to writing books on the complexion, there has been an immense amount of interest in jewels, or rather as the woman learned on the subject is iond of saying, "gem;-." The finest gems in New York are divided around among tho fashionable women. Mrs. Bradley Martin sports a superb diamond tiara in which she looks like the queen of England. Eng-land. Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts owns the finest pearls. You know she was a Miss Endicott, blue blooded and poor. Years ago she was coming hack from abroad and she met Mr. Roberts, then a Widower, on the steamer. Iu time blue blood and ducats united and the present Mrs. Roberts is the result. The finest sapphires belong to the best bred lady in New York Mrs. August Belmont though the finest single sapphire, a very superb pendant, is in the possession of Mrs. Willie Astor. Mrs Willie Vanderbilt has a necklace that duplicates that of the Dncheas of Fife a string of diamonds-which means j dinmonds perforated exactly like pearte and worn around the neck in the nae manner. The boring of these diamond8 Ta very difficult task and there is al-WavS al-WavS th7chanceof breaking the stone before it is entirely finished. This adds :o the axpense of sucha necklace.