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THE FASHION OF PEARLS
Although
the pearl like all other jewels, has had its periods of extreme and
general public favor, unlike other gems if it is once appreciated by an
individual or a nation it is never utterly discarded by either. If not
the fashion, pearls are always in fashion. Far as we can look back
among the dim, uncertain figures of the mystic past whose shades stand
where the unknown multitudes have fallen, we find pearls.
The
princes of India through all their generations, the dynasties of
Egypt, the royalties of Persia, the wild chiefs of Arab tribes, the
potentates of Greece, Rome and Venice, the houris of Turkey, the Queens
of every European court, from the time they found a place in history
until now, all wear pearls, at first thought this seems strange, for of
all gems the origin of the pearl is most humble. No titanic forces,
groaning in the travail of subterranean convulsions, crushed and ground
and fired its particles to shape and beauty. It grew, a few
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