The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1901, Page 11

7 me across. THE SUNDAY CALL onet is a s mila none e ind eller smiled. +| T .“ ctipn of t ck and a frure a string of h of luxurious- F&7bions decree ma Ihe crowning touc CAUGHT A CROSS satisfaction or the wearer, e an added glow of All women love to dressed, and no one can hope 1o iis end without certain chic at- bestowed upon the dressing and tte decoration of the halr. The festoon of pearls is always grace- ful, and often the quaintest Old World ef- ttain tentic SOTUTOONQO0 THE CoORSAGE about the soft folds of the hair and bring- ing the ends together under the knot of the hair. That i, when the coiffure is done low on the neck a.d waved loosely back from the forchead. For high coiffures, when the knot {2 made not too far front, two loops of pearls laid over the natural waves above the forehead, with one wound around the knot itself and two a o000 20" t . J : o5 o220000 0090 TIEEEQEERY s 000600000 00000029P) : e SREOTE00C WORN AROUND THE THROAT| AND CAUGHT AT THE SIDE of the back hair, is an absolute novelty and one that is very charming. Just a word here as to the pins that are 80 vnobtrusive and yet so all important an ftem In the coiffurés of the smartly groomed woman, Never undergany con- sideration should one use wire hairpins, except. of course, those infinitesimal ones called the “invisible.” The imitation shell ife pallor he faileife. oo oopooodoonoooooooo lals A TWISTED STRING when one cannot keep a stock of real ones on hand. Many a girl goes “short” on matinec caramels to kéep her supply &t real shell pins undiminished. A great many people are prone to think that lgxere is no difference whatsover, so long as the imitations are fairly presentable, but there is a difference, and just the one that you'll notice between the b?ntn that yvou buy ready made and the snugly fit- PEARLS WORN A LA MERODE | OoF ting ones bulli over wour own particular and exclusive last. Much might ba said, and most appropri- ately, on the care of the hair, but cer- tainly the maid who is desirous enough of looking her best and of wearing a fil- let of pearls in her coiffure has that same hair shining and soft from the constant grooming she has given it Simplicity In decoration always results A COLLIER OF PEARLS in the napplest effects, and the festoon= ing loops of pearls can be worn in half & dozen ways. The woman who owns a lustrous string of beautiful pearls can vary the mode of wearing them In the hair—around the throat, or caught among the dainty laces of an evening gown, to suit her individual taste and the occasion. They are appro- P t all necessary fects are obtainable by looping the pearls others caught loosely against the softness halirpins are ever #0 much better taste, priate for any affair. f the Prince of Wales' 1 tuft of feathers. rich Manchester endeavored to get s told that there on the market. This made her anxious to procure them. *“I ng £1(0.” she said. The “They will cost you e wife of 5 er e w of & special expedition to New h e observed. Her husband was sly weathy and she Induced him rize this. e the plume hunters returned. 1 been away nearly & year-and $4000. They reported that the ular kind of bird of which the vlumes are of the Mohammedan creed he noses of all idols they may When they invaded India in this way every Hindoo e of Vishnu cut in green jade ed in the bed of the Ganges dur- sion, and is now preserved Ecnares. It is the only per- MONEY CANNCT RBUY. fect image left of all the old idols, and its sanctity is such that the priests at Alla- habad have offered for it its’ weight in gold, together with two magnificent rubles, formerly the eyes of Buddha. But they cannot buy it. An English Earl, whose wealth is count- ed by hundreds of thousands, has a splen- did coliection of Greek statuary. His great ambition has been to possess a Samian Apollo, of which two only were known to be in existence. Last year he had news from his agent that another had been unearthed in a village near Athens. The real value of such a statue is about $6000, but Greek law strictly forbids the export to foreign countries of any an- tiques, The agent bought the statue from its finder and then set to work to smuggle it out of the country. He had his find re- moved to a little-known fishing village on the west coast of Greece and chartered a steam yacht to fetch it. But the Govern- ment officials got wind of his project and the Apollo is now in an Athens museum. An enterprising Australian miliionaire named Leonard took a trio to Peru somae years ago. He saw great flocks of the alpaca wandering on the Andes. Being a wool grower himself, he was struck with their splendid fleece. ‘He resolved to buy some and take them home, He found that the Peruvian Government absolutely pro- hibited their export. He tried, by char- tering a spectal ship, to smuggle some off, but was unsuccessful. Then the idea oc- curred to liim of taking them out of the country eastward. He bought a large flock, engaged trusty men and had the creatures driven over the passes, 18,000 feet above sea level, and then clean across the continent to Buenos Ayres. This lit- tle expedition cost him $15,000. But the long march had so weakened the alpacas that they all died on the voyage. The most expensive plcture known 1s the Raphael in the National Gallery of England, which cost the nation $350.000. It cannot be bought. Another famous plc- ture by the same great artist is In pos- session of a country squire in the Mid- lands. He is not a rich man, and it must have been a temptation when a million- alre baron sent him an offer accompanied by a blank check. The check was return- ed. Undiscouraged, the baron made a definite offer—$20.000 down and $10,000 a year for life. The owner refused. One of the most perfect safes in the world s in a church at Genoa, Ttaly. In it js a vase cut from a single emerald. It is twelye and a half inches in diameter and five and three-fourth Inches high. No other emerald approaching it in size is known. A millionalre offered §1,000,000 for this treasure, but was assured that money would not buy it. On the occason of the Queen's recent visit to Treland a programme of all the traveling arrangements and details of the Journey was made up. It included a map of the rallway route, a map of Dublin, the order of the procession and a list of prominent Irish officials. Only one copy was printed, and this was bound In green velvet, with a gold harp and crown on either side.~ A Dublin brewer of great wealth was most anxious to Induce the firm which printed this unique spectmen to duplicate {t. He met with a flat re- fusal. Of Shakespeare's signature there are but seven known specimens, one of which is @oubtful. That one in the British museum cost $15,000. A millionaire recently offered §100,000 for a genuine autograph of Shakespeare if brought to him within twelve months. But he has had no re- ply. \ A “gem,” strictly speaking, Is not mere- 1y a preclous stone. It is anengraved stone Two thousand years ago gem cutters un- derstood how to polish the cutting of an engraving throughout on both sides. The art is now lost. = A gentleman called Thornton, residing in Sydenham, has in his pessession a chrysoprase with a per- fectly cut and polished engraving upon it. It was found many years ago in the catacombs of Rome. A Hebrew banker, who has a wonderful collection of en- graved stones, has offered as much as $40,000 without tempting the owner to part with it.—Chicago Tribune. P . A German physicist, G. Tammann, has recently discovered some hitherto unnoted facts concerning ice and the freezing point of water, He finds that not only does the freezing point vary with the pressure, but that three different kinds of ice can bp produced, each possessing its own crystul line structure, Thus water may nhow be said to have flve known forms, namely, .Wwater, vapor, water as a liquid, ordinary ice, called by Tammann ice I, ice in its second form, or ice 1I, and ice in its third form. denominated as ica IIL QRT THRT FORETOLD DERTH. N _a neat little villa at Gentilly, near H Paris, there has lived for several years a widow named Mme. Richard, whose sole companion i a splendid Angora cat. Alone the two ltved in the comfortable house, and very rarely did either go far away from home. 'A short time ago, however, the lady felt very lonesome, and ®o she decided to invite a few of her neighbors to dinner. They came, and after dinner®the cat entered the room and’en account of its beauty at once attracted general attention. The guests petted it fondly and finally one of them, an elderly spinster, tpok ft up in her arms and asked it a curfous question, “Tell me, puss she said, ““‘which of us who are now In the room will die first 2" Straightway the cat leaped from her arms, and with tail erect and loud purrs went straight to an old lady who sat at the other end of the room. Not being superstitious the entire company burst out laughing and the hostess was warm- ly congratulated on possessi ) wonderful cas s selen A few days later, however, the old lady who had been selected by the cat as death’'s next victim actually dled, and then the storm arose. Some persons in- sisted that Mme. Richard was a sorceress and that her cat was an evil spirk, whils others maintained that th# cat alone was to blame and ought to be promptly killed. The clamor at last became so loud that six of the ladies who had been Mme. Richard’'s guests on the eventful evening decided to take definite action, and so they latd a formal complaint before the police. authorities, in which they urged that the offending cat, whose eyes they described as ‘‘supernatural and dtabolf- cal,” should be killed without delay. What action, if any, the police have taken is not yet known. —_————— . Commonplace young man (scion of fllus- trious family)—HI, there! Don’t you point that thing this way! Camera flend—It's no crime, I guess, to take a snapshot at anybody. Commonplace young man—It Is to take one of me. I'm copyrighted.—Chicago Cminma