Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1910 — WEARING OF PASTE JEWELS [ARTICLE]

WEARING OF PASTE JEWELS

Practise That Is Not to Be Commended—Many Reasons Why It Is in Poor Taste. This concerns a practise that only In recent years has assumed dangerous proportions—the wearing of paste jewels. There is no doubt that French jewelry Is artistic and beautiful, bqt many women now bedeck themselves in evening dress with Parisian jewelry that is such a close imitation of the real thing that there la intent to deceive. The moment this occurs bad taste creeps in. • Frankness In wearing Parisian jewelry is the one thing that makes it possible to the gentlewoman. No matter if everyone else does wear paste, do not acquire the habit. False hair and false jewels are not lovely, though “every one wears them” nowadays. This placid acceptance of falss standards —something that would have been impossible a generation ago—'Will undoubtedly lower the ideals of what constitutes a gentlewoman and the things she permits herself to wear.