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Show Pearli in Hilt or y ' Few JewWs have played more conspicuous con-spicuous part In history than the pearl. Pliny though! It was a drop of dew (wallowed bjr the oyster, while the American auvnge hclljved that It wa made of sunbeams and petrified dew-drops. dew-drops. The manner In which, the real Jewel la born la anything but. poetic. A gralu of sand Irritate the sensitive oyster and the rrtollusk proceeds to smooth It by depositing around It layer after layer of the nnrre with which hie shell la lined. In the South Kensington Ken-sington museum there la a. pearl two lBepea-deep. and Jtwa and half Inches . In diameter. Think of this long' process) and the discomfort of the creature which produced It -r' -.-. |