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 



I of a fashioning unlike 



JjjP any to be seen in a 



^ m show - case, but which 



might well serve as a 

 rare model for the mi- 

 *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 



