bronze are not uncommon. Some of the 

 salmon and golden pink tints are wonderful 

 to behold and are well calculated to excite 

 one's admiration. Even among white 

 pearls there is always a slight tint of pink, 

 green or blue so delicate however, that it 

 is only seen by comparison. Yellow pearls, 

 unless of a rich, clear color, are not as 

 valuable as others, but a soft creamy tint 

 is highly prized. Perhaps the fancy colored 

 pearls show to best advantage when placed 

 beside the white. A very pleasing combina- 

 tion may be made by placing a satiny white 

 pearl between a leek green one and a rose 

 pink. 



A pearl of fine lustre will reflect a miniature 

 of one's self, hair, eyes and teeth, and occa- 

 sionally one is seen sufficiently brilliant to 

 reproduce every feature of the landscape as 

 well. The cause of the various colors of 

 pearls is a subject about which very little 

 is known, and why they are often so much 

 more highly colored than the shells in which 

 they grow, as, why one is green, another 

 white and another pink, is a mystery. 



Size 



How large do pearls grow? All the way 

 from tiny dots less than the size of a very 

 small pin's head, up to specimens of three 

 or four hundred grains in weight or beyond. 

 But size alone has very little to do with 

 the value of a pearl. A symmetrically shaped 



