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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 

 of a fashioning unlike 

 any to be seen in a 

 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 



