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Show How Pearls Meed the Hi!ma-iir:Toiiclii I ?F you are the lucky possessor of a string ot anger? tears, as some one once poetically vis- ioned pearls, wear them, anil don't keep them cooped'up In the family Vault or horrlor.m cnslc'et, for pearl.s, more lUah any other precious gem, rev said to. bo almost human in their suscoptibllity to change, r(eglecjt and indifferent treatment, and. !? not properly looked after will lose their "life''' to an extent which sometimes considerably doprocl-ates doprocl-ates their value. ' 1 Perhaps you hnvc noticed that nearly always the portraits of noted women of society, of royally ; and other ladies of high degree show them wear--, ing their own particular famous pearls. But there is method in this ostentation. Jewel-lers Jewel-lers and insurance agents have insisted that pearla, to retain their precious lustre, must bo worn continually. Indeed, many society beauties and actresses, whose pearls are almost as famous as thomselves, wear their gems under their gowns when display is unwise, and they even sleep In them! ' An ' actress, whose pearls are worth many thousands, says that she attributes their wonderful sheen and exquisite coloring to the fact that she always wore them In bed. Tho luckless Mile. Lantclme, who was drowned In the Ifliinc some years ago while on a ploasuro trip on her husband's yacht, was also tho possessor cf some wondrous pearls, and always retired with her entire collection distributed over her hands, arms, neck and ears. In fact, when the body of tho beautiful actress was recovered from , the river it was found that she was clad only in her night robe and her pearls. Paris was a long time forgetting the tragic death of the woman whose eyes were like black . - ..st.,..- ' . " "" i .--- Tansies, and whom they called the I'ady of the 'Pearls; "and some time after herscave was rMe! . iuglv desecrated by.ome ghoulish fiends, and th Jewels "which had boon buried with her were s'thn - tinder particularly nauseous circunjftariccs. B Curiously entfughnot ail women are good f. B pearls, and ' many owners have to delegate th B irearing of litem to their maids or healthier rclr.- jH lives. . Some women, however, are famous pearl cure- IH alls,. and one or two yearn -ago one of the big znu- B selling of Paris advertised for a young and health B '. maiden 1o sit for a few hours daily wearing some B cf heir pearl exhibilsjwhich'had lost "life." B ' The successful applicant for the unusual po.-t B was required to wear the jewels next her llesh B under the. eagle eye of one or two attendants, who B we're t,oUl " off to see that she did not play any B hanky-panky trjeks. jH This young girl proved such a' pearl curr-all B that she was commissioned by, hjany European B royalties iind society folk' to pav periodical visits B tn their treasures. ' B Thp yx-Tsarina of Russia also possessed won- B derful ropes of the most lovely bauble in the world, jB but very few are aware that other people have to B give them their '.'medicine'." as she Is constitu- B tionally antagonistic to them. Senora Tortola de Valencia of Barcelona, who B is one of the famous exponents of the danclns B which- is peculiarly Spanish, is said to have re- B stored the pearls of tho ex-Tsarina; to life several B year's ago by wearing them next her heart while B dancing at Petrograd. The pearls had lost, their lustre, and tbe in- B surauce companies wero beginning to bo alarmed; B but after the fascinating Tortola had worn them, jB they "glistened once more with all tho fire of life, B youth and health," according to the' unbiased and imcensored report of an admirer of the famous B danscuse. |