The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunties, and every-day problems (1894)
New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 264
Valenciennes. tations, yet their artistic value is high.Such articles as these are peculiarlywithin the province of young girls, towhom the value of real gems at oncemakes them prohibited, and whose mostappropriate ornaments are such as aresimple and dainty, and artistic and in-expensive. And… … Point de Genes. gems that are not even genuine of theirown kind, as are the semi-preciousstones, but are distinctly imitations—even these are not to be despised. Ifthe shimmering translucence of a natu-ral pearl be valued at thousands ofdollars, shall we argue for no valuewhatever in the shimmering…
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