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Show Seed Pearl Jewelry Again in Vogue i present condition and is of too large a design to look well at the present day may have the pearls reset in four or live or perhaps: ten ropes, according to the size of the pearls, all strung so as to lie quite flat on the neck, fastened iu back with a single one of the old medallions for clasps. From the old earrings in grandmother's set can be made a most attractive jK-arl drop, while the brooch, if lo large to wear as a breastpin, may be attached to n fine gold chain and worn n a medallion. Although much of the jewelry worn fifty , or even twenty-five years ago looks heavy I and coarse beside the delicate settings in vogue to-d.i.v. there are many pieces, like I the pearl niH.'klacc- and the thin, wide gold bracelets which are so perfect of their kind that they bold their own through any change of fanhion or passage of time. ONCH agiin there has returned to fashion the tiny seed pearl jewelry in its quaint settings, such as grandmother grand-mother used to wear when she was a young girl just leaving her "teens." Any girl who may chance to possess such &o heirloom as a tet of necklace, broo h, medallion me-dallion ond earrings of these email clustered clus-tered pearl is indeed to be envied. To-day a younjr girl would not wear the whole set at once, and she wonld probably eschew tho earrings altogether, but the neckl ic ami the brooch she can wear with her party frocks, nnd opart from the pleasant consciounnes.s of being the possessor of the pretty piece of Jewelry rn" enjoy tho double delight that they are the very iie-.irW which her own grandmother wore while she was having all the good times of her girlhood. Should the iieckhuv be too elaborate of dexign it must, of course, be kept until a girl is rcully out, but while many of these edd pearl necklaces were very beautiful nnd correspondingly costly, there were nNo many quite simple enough of design to be suitable for Kwoot iJteen. Unfortunately, however, not every girl has inherited grandmother.') pearls. She jnay be the young-nt daughter, or the jewelry may all have gone lo another branch of the family. In this cai-c the girl who h saved up lo-r Christmas gifts nnd nil her birthday presents for some time past that she might eventually purchase pur-chase some one thing that shall be really worth while cannot do bvltcr than to buy some such necklace of antique design. The wide, flat setting in which the myriads of little esrLs were made up is especially becoming to a throat that Is lerhops too thin as yet to be pretty with collurbnH gown unless it has the small adornment of the ncuLUct. Modem imitations of the antique set-tines set-tines are to te found iu many of the jewelry ktores of the prrvut day, but it is In the establishments where genuine antique jewelry is koM that the best of these old necklaces nre to be found. Among the prettiest of tbe old designs it one showing a single medallion in the ceutre held by a LouJ of live rows ol the tiny pearls. When the medallions are c.parativoly small, beren.or eight are cftn iceu in jje one neckpiece, the larger pieces connected by bamls formed I by tbre or foar ropca of the ed iearln The girl who owns an old nceklace Ihst Ii .tvJJLf too out of repair to wear la Us |