Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1911 — BLACK JEWELS FOR MOURNING [ARTICLE]

BLACK JEWELS FOR MOURNING

Really No Other Kind is Permissible, If One Would Do the Correct Thing.

A woman in mourning often misses it in her accessories. Her gowns and hats may be quite correct, but she wears jewelry or carries bags and other belongings that are not suitable. For the deepest black it is good form to wear nothing but black jewelry. This mean? a new supply, as none of the old is permissible save one’s engagement, ring. Some women even dispense with that Black enamel onyx beads and cut onyx dull jet in beads and carbochons are most used. For cheaper pins there Is gun metal, which wears badly and soon looks rusty, and the various compositions made to represent enamel. Women who can afford it have dog collars, chains, pins and brooches of onyx to match. The first cost of this is offset by the lasting qualities. Twisted ropes of tiny jet beads make good looking watch chains, to which is attached a watch ot black enamel links on the order of the antique silver ones.

The simpler the lines of mourning jewelry the better form it is. Little more Is worn than is necessary, and long bar pins are better liked than fancy brooches, even for the front of k collar.