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Show although a side view discloses thein as a reddish plum shade or without color at all! Ilow or why these phenomena occur is still unexplained, unex-plained, although it is known that the oxides of chromium, titanium and iron will produce stones colored red. blue, yellow and brown. In any event, the result of them are either rubies or sapphires, and the beauty-loving beauty-loving world is far richer for their creation. F.piphanes, a writer of the Sixteenth Six-teenth century, has written that Hie vision Moses saw on the Mount was within the crystal of a sapphire, and that the original Tables of the Law were made of the same material. Whether his account is authentic or not, it is known that the Greeks had dedicated the gem to Apollo, the god of prophecy, long before the Christian era, and, when consulting this deity's oracle at Delphi. Inquirers Inquir-ers wore this jewel to secure quick and favorable answers to their petitions. MIXTURE OF COLOR IN THE SAPPHIRE Stone Long Famous for Its Wide Range. Sapphire, the birthstone of September, Sep-tember, may be golden, yellow, pink, brown, black, gray, blue, green or violet, and occasionally has no color at all ! The term, to the lapidary, lapi-dary, means any corundum except the ruby, and includes the oriental amethyst, the oriental peridot and the oriental topaz as well as the brilliant, lustrous blue stone to which people through the ages have given the title "sapphire." Corundum is a combination of oxygen and aluminium, created -in the volcanic fires of the dawn of time, says Nature Magazine of Washington. Like Cleopatra, "age cannot wither nor custom stale" its infinite variety, and yet the wide range of colors is caused merely by minute impurities which crept into the atomic structure of t lie stone. It is one of the marvels of the mineral kingdom that a crystal occasionally oc-casionally is blue on one-half the length of the crystal and yellow on the other half; or that sometimes the blue and red alternate in thin stripes to impart to the crystal a purplish plum color. And it is equally marvelous that some stones, viewed through the length of the crystal, appear" blue |