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You know how, in and for themselves, I love gems ; and how, less and less as the years go on, I have found myself able to wear the few I own. Like fabrics, they seem to me so much more beautiful in themselves than after they are ready to wear but with this difference: that fabrics worn are legitimately useful, while jewels worn are only ornamental extrinsic, unreasonable ! I can wear a brooch, which does something and is beautiful meanwhile but when I ; put on a necklace, before I leave the mirror I take it off again. Well: how to reconcile my love of jewels, which is real, with my inability to be happy (with any on me ! I couldn't have some in a box to look at on occasion that would be like drinking alone. I Landor's "Pericles and thought of it a good deal, and then, reading Aspasia," I came on this, in a letter to Aspasia from Cleone : "Your opinion was formerly that we should be careful not to subdivide the person. The arm is composed of three parts ; no one of them is too long. Now the armlet intersects that portion of it which must be considered as the most beautiful. In my idea of the matter, the sandal alone is susceptible of gems, after the zone has received the richest. The zone is necessary to our vesture in every quarter of the humanized world in one invariable manner." There it is. Then I knew. I can have my jewels in a girdle. Ah, well, at least I have a direction for my imaginings in gems, and I need no longer feel a little sad, a little alien, when I think of them. Something beautiful to use, not merely to hang on, have I discovered in the region of the gemness I so glorify. 116 ZONA GALE.
Page AGATE 10, 88 ALEXANDRITE 49 AMAZONSTONE 89 AMBER 94 AMETHYST 88 ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION 104 AZURITE 91 BENETOITE 91 BERYL 53 BLOODSTONE . . 88 INDEX. GARNET GEMS, CARVED GEMS IN THE SKY GEM LITERATURE HELIOTROPE HIDDENITE HYACINTH JADE . JASPER JET .. CAIRNGORM 87 KUNZITE CAMEO 13 CARNELIAN 87 CATVEYE 48 CHALCEDONY 87 CHRYSOBERYL 48 CHRYSOLITE 75 CHRYSOPRASE 87 CITRINE 87 CORAL 92 DEMANTOID 69 DIAMOND 29 EMERALD 45 FAMOUS JEWELS 22 Braganza Diamond 23 Cullinan 22 Dresden Green Diamond Eugenie Diamond " Excelsior " Florentine Great Mogul 27 27 23 26 " Halphen Red Diamond Hope Blue Diamond Kohinoor 23 27 25 24 Mazarins ' 27 Nassak ' 27 Polar Star ' 26 ' Orloff " Regent Star of the South Diamond 24 26 27 Star of South Africa 27 Emerald, Devonshire 28 Opal, Josephine Pearl, La Pellegrina Ruby, Black Prince Sapphire, English Crown 58 101 28 28 117 Page 68 10 Ill 7 IS 78 72 80 10 94 79 LABRADORITE 89 LAPIS LAZULI 90 MALACHITE 91 METHODS OF TESTING STONES 108 MOONSTONE 89 MORGANITE 54 MOSS-AGATE 87 OLIVINE 75 OPAL 56 PEARL 92, 95 PERIDOT 75 PLASMA 10 QUARTZ 87 RHODOLITE 69 RHODONITE 79 RUBY 39 SAPPHIRE 42 SARD 10 SARDONYX 12, 87 SCARAB 13 SPHENE 83 SPINEL 51 SPODUMENE 78 STONES IN THE BIBLE 17 SUNSTONE 89 TOPAZ 60 TOURMALINE 63 TURQUOISE 84 ZIRCON .65
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GEMS - BY- Helen Bartlett Bridgman
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To Zona Gale Lover of Gems in Earth
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since it never can be wrested from
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tion of the three species of Hyacin
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CARVED GEMS. For nearly three thous
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He must be able not only to judge t
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they plainly represent the owner's
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special significance and power. Kin
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He putteth his hand upon the rock;
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The following are all the voice of
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FAMOUS JEWELS. The finding of the C
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and the Great Mogul are identical,
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in gems Mrs. Edward B. McLean of Wa
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of Russia. Besides these diamonds t
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But for these invaders of the deser
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appears. As Cattelle : says "Gem co
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white diamond results from further
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lacking in reserve power. One of th
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negative little woman it is not in
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takes a hand here, too, in the boug
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SAPPHIRE. Hyacinthus was the ancien
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ing five karats in weight are excee
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cave, and thus Nero may have discov
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CHRYSOBERYL. Chrysoberyl, though ha
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every year. Moreover, it is the onl
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that again a fourth, with the commo
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fainter tinge of blue which was the
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OPAL. No wonder that in the absence
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cold has a repressive eftect. Alway
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TOPAZ. Attention was first called t
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a crucible, with powdered charcoal,
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at Mt. Mica, bringing in during the
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Page 78 and 79: HYACINTH. Three various kinds the s
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Page 86 and 87: JADE. The word jade is magical in i
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Page 94 and 95: The agate is the birthstone for Jun
Page 96 and 97: LAPIS LAZULI. Lapis lazuli is a mag
Page 98 and 99: PEARL, CORAL, AMBER, JET. The above
Page 100 and 101: AMBER. Amber, prized less as an orn
Page 102 and 103: jeweler and traveler Tavernier, in
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Page 108 and 109: atmosphere. Always in storage a dam
Page 110 and 111: ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTION. The diamon
Page 112 and 113: Burmese gem, though the price of th
Page 114 and 115: METHODS OF TESTING STONES. Hardness
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