Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1902 — BEJEWELED PUSH-BUTTON. [ARTICLE]

BEJEWELED PUSH-BUTTON.

■oom a*t with Dlanaoad* ud Other Precious Stone* for Millionaires, "Here are some rather odd things—the first of their kind I have. ever made,” said a jeweler, as he laid upon a cloth of black velvet a number of silver and gold buttons, into which were set small pearls, sapphires, opals and emeralds. “They are electrical push-buttons,” he explained, "and they are to be used in a country house that one of our millionaires is building. “Push-buttons, you know, are coming into wider and wider use. The dwellings of the rich contain fifty or sixty of them nowadays. And as a consequence of their profuse appearance everywhere architects are giving a good deal of care to their designing. These six buttons, for instance, that are to go in a white and gold drawing room, are. you see, of silver, studded with opals, and they are to be set on a plate of onyx in a silver frame. “They will go well, don’t you think,” asked the jeweler, according to the Philadelphia Record, “with the drawing room’s delicate and pale decorative scheme?”