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It typifies, What super-subtle sense is women to endow their gems with and leads them it that enables some a certain individuality, inanimate objects to feel that these cold, A human emotion? French writer, Mme. Catulle Mendes, gives expression to this when she says that she always wears as many of her rings as possible, because her gems feel slighted when she leaves them unworn. She continues : partake of I have a ruby -which grows dull, two turquoises which become pale as death, aquamarines which look like siren's eyes filled with tears, when I forget them too long.

Assyrisches Worterbucb," Leipzig, 1896, p. 604. 36 THE CURIOUS LORE OF PRECIOUS STONES Qurna, excavated by Passalaqua, was found the mummy of a young woman. Not only was it evident from the rich ornaments adorning the body that she had been of noble birth, but it was also apparent that she must have been exceedingly beautiful in form and feature, and must have died in the flower of her age. The hair was artistically braided and adorned with twenty bronze hairpins. About her neck was a remarkably beautiful necklace composed of four rows of beads with numerous pendants representing divinities and sacred symbols.

The animal having an The affinity with white was quite naturally the ermine. number was and white was the color of inmystic seven, fancy. Among the ancients white was a sign of mourning and sadness, and the Greek matrons attired them- on the death of their husbands. G-imma states that in his time, in Eome, widows used to wear selves in white white as mourning for their husbands, while throughout Italy a white band worn around, the head was a sign of widowhood. Bed garments on a man indicated command, nobility, and a woman, pride, obstinacy, on lordship, vengeance; and haughtiness.

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