Show I l Students Give Up Wearing of Opals son on Pins Pearls earls Are Replacing Unlucky Unlucky Un lucky Stones as Settings T Also Are Mys Mys- Are Aro you afraid to wear opals Tho The traditionally unlucky stones are becoming less popular among American college students according to a report from Burr Durr Patterson Company manufacturing Jewelers of or Detroit who declare that the demand for tor them as settings for tor fraternity badges is steadily decreasing in favor of or pearls The old superstition that the iridescent Jewel was bound to bring dire misfortune to its wearer not born in October For centuries men have havo had a a. peculiar peculiar pe pe- culiar feeling towards the opal opal opal- amounting at times to awe and Inspired in inspired inspired In- In perhaps by the tho strange changes change of ot color which to go goon goon goon on Inside the stone stono without any apparent apparent apparent ap ap- ap- ap parent reason ronson Scientists have havo since shown however how- how over ever that the tho opal contains a a. certain amount of ot water In Its composition which is of ot course affected by atmospherIc atmospheric at- at conditions and particularly by the tho application of ot heat When exposed ex exposed ox- ox posed to Ito the latter for tor example the tho stone will lose Its Us brilliance and degenerate de degenerate de- de generate into a a. mere pebble A stone which has haa seemed to share sharo tho mystery attached to the opal is Js the tourmaline a a. transparent composite composite composite com com- occurring occurring- In shades of at both red and green Undoubtedly one of oC the many traits of or this stone stano which have havo tended to cast a a. I glamour about It IL is Its susceptibility to electrification The discovered that when heated by tho the sun or friction the tho tourmaline would attract chaff chatt or small bits of oC paper and this property together with that of r changing color according to tho the light tho they regarded as almost magical Children at t Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam Am Am- are aro credited by some with having discovered the tho electrical qualities qualities qualities ties tn of-tn of to tourmaline while whUa at play One Ono of or the worlds world's greatest deposits of ot tourmaline was dl discovered cred In tho the State of oC Maine Maino by two students lookIng looking look look- ing for specimens of minerals Tho The cave which they accidentally stumbled upon Is eald said to have resembled tho the mythical cave of Aladdin In its splendor splendor dor dol and In spite of t the fact tact that It co covered covered cov cov- v- v ered but a few square rods nearly forty varieties of at the tho stone were found Among AmonS' tho the throngs of or people who were quick to visit the cave were the Russian and nd Austrian consuls to America who ho obtained specimens for tor forthe tho the museums of oC Petrograd and Vien n na n t. t |