Rubies and Sapphires in Favour.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 98, 18 April 1885, Page 5

Rubies and Sapphires in Favour.

The exhibition at the Hotel Drouot of a portion of the jewela belonging to the merchant, M. L. M. Rothschild, of London, has attracted no little attention. The public view drew the general crowd that somehow or other finds its way any day and every day into these enormous auction-rooms. That special consideration was given to this exhibit on account of the name is quite probable. Many supposed, until undeceived, that it was a member of the great Rothschild family, who, from caprice, sold a few of many treasures. It is a well-known fact that the moat wonderful pearls in the world and the most marvellous rubies belong to members of this family. It is not difficult nowadays, with monoy and with patience, to obtain such gems as in good old times belonged only to imperial or kingly crowns. Everyone here will toll you in longing accents of the two pendants, three coitimeters high, that are known to belong to " those Americans." French nobles havo still some rare old lace, but they can afford no extra surplus to purchase rare stones. Actresses now posses the most extravagant displays of fancy jewellery. When Leonide Leblanc appeared in Balsamo at the Odeon, in the . role of the notorious " Dubarry," the wealth of royalty adorned her bewitching costume arms, neck and diadem. Marie Magnier, who is now playing in The Danicheffs at the Porte St. Mai tin, could every day select her jewels to suit her costume. The French wittily say that " pretty women have long arms." They certainly have grasping fingers Diamonds are now put to the blush, in a fashionable sense, by the ruby and the sapphire. The first is the greatest desideratum. Marie Antoinette always wore them. After these two stones pearls enjoy univerI ' favour. To judge by the number and sjze of those that one can see at any hour of the afternoon in the ears of the pedestriennes in the chic quarters, one might almost believe these Oriental luxuries could be picked up in the street. Unfortunately for the vanity of the wearers, they are usually too sizeable and too perfect to carry conviction. At the sale of M. Rothschild's collection the prices aro likely to. run high enough to impress one weightily with their value and genuine oyster birth. — Paris Letter in »' Mew York Times."

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