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Show Old Fashioned Jewelry Modernized OI,I fashioned jewelry has'become a prizi-d posMSsion. Whatever has been lying a tray in a departed grand-mother's grand-mother's box has acquired virtue from the mere fact that it was a possesion of two generations previous, and in someway some-way or another it is to be used. , Many e.f the trinkets can be worn on l"iig watch chains as ornaments. Those old, slender gold pencils, the handles delicately deli-cately engraved and a colored stone sunl! in the end. are prizes to be flaunted at the girdle of aoy who finds the ornament. Lockets have leaped into favor; while as for earrings they arc woru iu other ways ' -t than from the cars. . A charming chain has been cvolvcd-by : one girl, ils ornaments being two old ear-! rings made iu the form of U-sels. The! fringe of, each is scesj iM-arls. cioselj strung, more pearls being son, i; into' the fine gold near the t"p. lino Ijrger'pearl it the end of a bit f gold wire forms, a j clapper. She use's these merely by put-j ting one Into each end of a very slembirj gold chain which U long enough to pa.vs' aroiinrL tho nee-k and bang about at thin bust line. The chain has iie catch, the' : Whole being lied in "'e loose kn..i, which uJms ueiuluuU Wcvcflt frviu coiuini; aud'JJJu. I Any e.f the long earrings that our grandmothers grand-mothers se prized may be adapted in til i? fashion, aud absolutely 00 expense is in ; volved. for the hooks at Ihe top arc situ ply passed through the end links. (VuiieON are another favorite of old thai heve come again into Kpuhirity. Brooches make beautiful belt huckles; earrings may forni the heads of most effective bat pins. Bracelet of many heads strung togethei with short eops may be proudly flourished on the wrists or treated as one girl has recently done with one belonging to bei great-grHiidmolhiT. There ore twelve beads in the band. These hate beeu separated sep-arated and joined by links, lop aud bottom, bot-tom, a distance' e.f an inch apart. Earrings Ear-rings of the same cameos, but a couple o( sizes smaller, form the clasp. The whole 3s so adjustcd"us" to make a tight collar, and a very sinutt leklng one it is. Those old. tisht Kold bracelets, without which Hcvi-rul generations antecedent considered con-sidered themselves unfinished when drewsl I for the afternoon, are highly prlssed by ;girls vlii are e.ld enough to wear them. jOuo is nol 011 ench wrist, as formerly, but boih together are used, aud when the dres ! sleeve" is mm'iuetaire the glint of yellow !me(u among the fulmss is extremely pretty. One girl has taken two very wide bangles ban-gles and hud them beut so that they surround sur-round the ins k ns a collar. Two ends nre chipped together, oud the other two just UlL'Ct at the: I-jlV. |
