Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1914 — ALL NOW WEARING JEWELRY [ARTICLE]

ALL NOW WEARING JEWELRY

Imitations of Expensive Stones Considered In Good Taste and Are En7 joying Wide Vogue. v Much more jewelry has been worn in the last two years by all classes, of women. Semi-precious stones, artistically inset, are now used as daytime jewels. There used to be only two kinds of Jewelry in America, the genuine and very expensive, out of the reach of all but the woman of wealth, and the very cheap sort, that no woman who was used to the right thing would think of wearing. Now there has been imported and made here an in-between sort Some of it is set as expensively as the real stones, in platinum, which has replaced. gold, but the larger diamonds, rubies, emeralds or-sapphires are synthetic stones; that ie to say, stones that have been manufactured to represent the real and made from the same component chemical parts as the real stones. They are set up in the same designs as the r‘4al and have often been mistaken for them by those who ought to know better. Besides this jewelry there are the semi-precious stones, like turquoise matrix, coral, jade, etc., These have shapes and settings designed by artists of talent, and they are worn by those who know how to dress.