Deseret Evening News | 1910-08-20 | Page 17 | Ridding the Opal of Superstition

RIDDING THE THEOPAL THEOPAL THEOPAL OPAL OF SUPERSTITION The tendency ten of late to rid tho the opal of at the tho foolish superstition that Ihal has hll clung to It for or no so 0 many years tAr Is I the tho result of n IL reform movement begun by bythe b bythe the Jewelers and art ail workers w who wha appreciate ap III appreciate Its groat beauty At first time tho opal wax not 1101 considered C to bo to In any 1111 anyway j way connected 1 with misfortune but was waa supposed d to embody all the th virtues of ot the other stones II Ion as It II contained nil their colors colour It was waN also believed to 10 share harr with the tho turquoise the sympathetic power or of f revealing the owners state Iato of o health If Ir It turned palo the owner was tens III ill Md If Ir It brightened I up perceptibly he was w ns on the tho road rou to re to recovery covers coven Tim Tho opals reputation for or misfortune n dates daun back bark about lx or seven centuries when It was WIS used In the tho crown of at a I reigning prince Through some Homo chem chemical ical Iral process the Ih stones began to tn con contract contract tract and finally dwindled awa and foil fell out of oC their setting Title This bed onion omen I followed by b time the destruction of oC thin tho prin I resulted In the tho condemnation of DC the opal New York Tribune TribuneS S