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Show SEE SERMONS IN STONES. Scientists Testify to Mutual Sympathy Sympa-thy Existing Between Jewels and Persons. Science lias come to tho fore to tea-fy tea-fy that the belief that precious stones have a rocullar sympathy with ht.man character and bearing thereon U no Idle superstition. A professor of tho Paris conservatory cf Arts and CratU says that ihc mutual attraction of peo-plonnd peo-plonnd stones Is b-yond dispute. Ho throws cold water on the belief that sapphires can open prison doors' or that diamonds make bravo men Invulnerable. In-vulnerable. But after three ears' ex. pcrlmental observation he maintains that a preference for certain Jewels Indicates certain temperamental quail, ties nnd even characteristic of physiognomy. physi-ognomy. For Instance, the ruby Invariably attracts at-tracts persons of dark eyes with long eyelashes. The diamond tempts tho bluo eyed who boast long lashes. And both blonde nnd brunette alike If of a nervous temperament yearn for emeralds. Kasy-golng natures fall under tho spell of blue stones. Hut more than all these scientific facts Is the dlscoveryNthnt tho sympathy sym-pathy of tho stone Is n sure test of its genuineness. No matter how perfect artificial stones may he, even though made from tho dust1 of tho real, having hav-ing undergone an unnatural crystallization crystalli-zation they do not po?sc3s tho subtle sympathetic attraction. When an easy-going woman turns tho cold shoulder on a turquoise collar you may be positive that the turquoise la artificial. |