Show I JEWELERS LAUGH AT STORY ABOUT ARTIFICIAL PEARL PEAR PARIS June 9 T The The e jewelers of the Rue Hue de la Ia Paix an are smiling over a report from Lend Londo on that a Japanese pearl expert had dis discovered di s- s covered a cultivating process to pr pro produce produce duce pearls which could not be di distinguished dis from genuine oriental orient Si pearls and which consequently had t the same sarno value In Ill the whole history of the wor world k d said Jacques Cartier a prominent jewel merchant no one has ever su succeeded sue suc in artificially producing pr precious pre e. e cious stones Man has never be beable beer been able to imitate the processes of n na nature a ture The pearl said M. M Cartier is particularly par pa r difficult to imitate and an anyone anyone any any- one ono could distinguish an oriental pea pea l from the imitation The real pea pear rl Is composed of many concentric ski skins ns as an onion Held up in natural light ht the center darkest with ti the transparency increasing in perte perfect gradation toward the exterior The imitation or Japanese pea pearlis pearl is paid aid to be produced by introducing into the living oyster a small stick ck of pearl of 05 ors a small ball of meerschaum which after alter sever several sever a years years becomes covered with sever several skins of the same substance as t treal the ho thereal thereal real pearl It would probably require fifty years ears to produce a solid pearl by this method said M. M Cartier with a smile And who wants to feed an oyster for fifty years |