l6o EYE SPY 



Twenty-four hours after this suspension a sin- 

 gular feat and a beautiful transformation take 



o 



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 

 — -^ ^^^ of a fashioning unlike 



^^ any to be seen in a 



'^^ * show-case, but which 



""'^-^ might well serve as a 



^^ '^y ;, ./, 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 

 i-Lii^ies — 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 

 entomoloG:ist or naturalist. The butterfly, the 



