l6o EYE SPY 
Twenty-four hours after this suspension a sin- 
gular feat and a beautiful transformation take 
place, a revelation which, as I have said, even to 
those already familiar with it, is always new and 
surprising. Here, indeed, may we observe " the 
miraculous in the common." 
It is as though our box had met with some en- 
chantment beneath the wand of Midas or Iris ; 
for is it not, indeed, a box of jewels that is now 
disclosed, a treasury of 
quaint golden ear-drops 
-jM|Mf||i|^^. - v f a fashioning unlike 
any to be seen in a 
^l ^r H show - case, but which 
might well serve as a 
rare model for the mi- 
^.^ v ^IJBI^ 1 metic art of the jeweller? 
When we consider the 
length to which these 
exquisite artisans will go for their natural origi- 
nals the orchids in gems, beetles in jewelled 
enamel, butterflies in brilliants and emeralds and 
rubies need we wonder that this one most sig- 
nificant model of nature's own jewelry, appar- 
ently designed as a tempting pendant, should 
have been ignored by a class of designers to 
whom its claims would seem irresistible ? But 
we forget. The jeweller is not necessarily an 
entomologist or naturalist. The butterfly, the 
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