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Show The Combination Ear - Pin Broedi Brooch or bar pin" Which Is the more popular? To end the controversy a compromise has been devised, which action is quite in kcepinr with the times now that arbitration ar-bitration in manifestly the last word and the latest fashion in ail mooted questions. A brooch, you know, is a more or less solid mass of gems which are grouped In clusters or scattered over a laccwork of platinum wire, and in shape keeping very strictly to conventional contours within the limits of three or four Inches for the largest designs Brooch-pendants may be lirKT than this, including their hanging ! attaehmcnts, but brooches seldom are. Bar-pins are those long, narrow Jewels which flryt came into notice as the collar I pins in shu t waist nets They have graduated grad-uated now out of this class, although many of the plainer designs are still i called "handy pins " In form they differ entirely from the typical disk-shaped brooch In fact, with their sUmneu giving them the appearance of a streak of flashing flash-ing gems, their only similarity to a brooch lies In their both being backed with fastening fas-tening nlns and catehe.. Now the bar-pin brooch Is a combination combina-tion of thc?e two pattern"' It la as if one were overlaid upon tho other, as though a handsome medium-sized brooch had been superimposed upon the long, narrow foundation of a bar-pin This new Jewel is well represented by an example carried out In peridots, diamonds dia-monds and pearls. A great table-cut. vivid green peridot stands high In the centre of this jewel. Around it are massed small pearls and diamonds in c pretty variation of the six-pointed star, and the projecting ends of the bar-pin base are also encrusted with pearls and diamonds, with a small peridot near the end on either 6lde. And yet with all this beauty as It? rival our still beloved bar-pin Is yet to be found in all Its glory of neat sllmness in every Jeweler's shop. It seems, in fact, against the heavier patterns of brooch and the combination Jewel to be even more natty and tailor-made Hero is a smart looking one. for instance, a bow knot, long and extremely narrow, with sharp pointed dovetailed ends, flat loops and tight-drawn knot in tiny square-cut sapphires and closely sot diamonds Or this one, a convex form set high In tho centre with a row of carbuncles and edged on its sloping sides with pearls. N'elther have the brooches entirely deserted de-serted their old haunts. Indeed, they come now in a greater variety of designs than ever before. |