Show pearls in in history few jewels have played a more conspicuous lop lc u ous part in history than the pearl pi patny n y thought it was a drop ot of dew swallowed by the oyster while the american savage believed that it was ninde made of sunbeams and petrified dewdrops the manner in which the real jowel jewel Is born Is anything but poetic A grain BB c of sand irritates the sensitive oyster 0 ster and the mollusk proceeds to smooth smooth it by depositing around it layer sifter after layer of the nacre with which his shell Is lined in the south kensington museum there Is a pearl two inches deep and two and a half inches in diameter think of the long process and the discomfort ot of the creature which produced it |