NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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| adiss H. MD. Swift 
Wew Work City 
20 West 33rd street, 
bas opened a branch store in The Colonnade, Magnolia 
House Furnishings and Decorations. 
Novelties in Lamps, Shades and Mirrors, 
Pillows and Table Covers, Old Brocades and Laces. French Novelties 
Small articles suitable for Gifts and Prizes. 
« # Society Notes 2 4 
Mr. and Mrs. Beacher M. Crouse, 
after a six weeks’ trip abroad, will join 
their family at Brownland, Manchester, 
Sunday. 
The dinner dance at the Essex County 
club next Wednesday evening will be the 
big social event of the week. The 188 
seats at the tables were sold long ago. 
Catherine Lady Decies of England, 
who came over in June to visit her son, 
the Hon. William Beresford, at Bristol, 
R. L., spent Thursday and Friday of last 
week on the North Shore, the guest of 
Mrs. Charles Inches on Sea street, Man- 
ceester. On Friday evening Mrs Inches 
had a few friends over to the Essex 
County club to meet Lady Decies at a 
dinner and bridge. Among the guests 
were Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Walton of 
Washington, who are at the Moorland, 
Bass Rocks. Mr. Walton is an inter- 
national lawyer, diplomat and legal author 
of note. Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. 
Morgan of Plymouth were also guests of 
Mrs. Inches. Lady Decies spent the 
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Morgan at 
Plymouth. 
Tennis Tournament Ends Today. 
With vim and da-h and spirited play, 
the big tennis tournament at the Ocean- 
side, Magnolia, in which 166 players en- 
tered two weeks ago, is being brought to 
a close this afternoon. At 2 o'clock the 
first winner was announced—Miss Clark, 
who captured the ladies’ singles after a 
contest which was doubtful to the very 
last. “Tomorrow morning, at 10.30 
o'clock, Miss Clark will play Miss Pen- ~ 
hallow for the challenge cup. At 2.30 
Saturday afternoon the winner of the 
men’s singles will met the challenger for 
this cup. 
This year’s tournament has been the 
greatest in the history of the Oceanside 
courts. Up to the present year, a list of 
75 entries was considered large, but this 
year the committee was swamped by a 
list more than double that number. This 
was partly due to the additional facilities 
for play this year, as two new courts 
were added this spring. This year’s 
tournament was entirely under the man- 
agement of the Oceanside, a fact which 
will add interest to the challenze matches 
tomorrow when the winners in this year’s 
tournament meet the holders of the cups 
iu the old Magnolia Tennis Association. 
The Art of Jewelry. 
The art of Jewelry is one which, up to 
the present, has been understood by few, 
yet it has employed  world-famed 
masters and commanded the attention of 
kings. Its cost is, perhaps, the cause 
which has kept it less prominent 
than the other arts, yet those who work 
in jewelry find inthe art as much of 
beautiful color as is found in painting, 
as much of the sense of delicacy as 1s 
found in music and as much of the subtle 
charm of lines and proportion as is found 
in architecture or sculpture. 
The revolution in all arts and crafts 
and the cleavage from old ideas so mani- 
fest during the last quarter-century are 
nowhere more pronounced than in the 
art of jewelry. “[wenty years ago, 
every attention was given to the stone— 
its size, its weight, its wealth of lustre, 
its price—and the forms for settings 
were fixed and unchanging. ‘The lat- 
ter were all very plain—the bar-pin, the 
three-jeweled ring and a dozen other old 
patterns seldom seen now and all done 
in gold. 
Today it is different! The great 
values concerned led to such study, that 
now the stone is perfect—it cannot be 
improved—and all the study, strife and 
labor has been directed toward improve- 
ment of the setting. 
One of the first manifestations of this 
change wasthe search for new ideas. 
Men were sent to far countries to 
spend life-times seeking out the wonder- 
ful designs of the masters in ages long 
gone by. The result was that some 
startling things came forth. 
One of the first fields exploited was 
the period following Francois the First. 
During the reigns of the Louis’, art 
in all its branches was at its zenith. The 
French jewelers, surpassing those of oth- 
er countries, wrought designs such as the 
world had never seen before. In deli- 
cacy of construction and subtlety of de- 
sign, their pieces seemed works of na- 
ture, divinely inspired. The hand could 
not have made such flowers of gold— 
they must have grown. And from that 
period come the designs and combina 
tions most sought after today. 
It is for this reason that French jewel- 
ry and French artisans are now the stand- 
ard. In France, the father teaches his 
craft to his son, carefully imparting the 
secrets of the art which he has mastered. 
The youthful jeweler thus grows up with 
hands moulded and trained by centuries 
of practice that have gone before. And 
they surpass all other workmen in design 
and skill of hand. 
Another remarkable trend in late 
years has been the increased demand for 
pearls; the demand has been so great 
that the fisheries are becoming exhausted. 
The best fields have been in the Straits of 
Manaar, the Persian Gulf and the Island of 
Ceylon. Australia has also contributed a 
wealth of pearls. Butthe diver can go 
but a limited depth in their search, and 
the fields are. rapidly being depleted. 
One field in India, for example, which 
once yielded 42,000,000 a year, this 
year has an output of but 450,000. 
Visitors at Magnolia have a rare chance 
to see both pearls and settings in their 
perfection. Dreicer & Company, of 
New York City, have brought to their 
store in the Colonnade some of the 
rarest works of the jeweler’s art to be 
foundinall the world. “Chis company 
has acorps of French jewelers whose 
workmanship cannot be _ described. 
Their head designer spent the last two 
weeks at the Magnolia shop. Much 
of their work has been on _ the 
designs of the periods of Louis XV and 
Louis XVI and these, with many other 
designs of rare beauty, the company is 
now displaying at Magnolia. 
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FOR SALE AND TO 
High-Class Combination 
Clever for Ladies to Ride or Drive 
Horses 
Apply to 
M. F. MURPHY, 35 Central St. 
Telephone 6-2 MANCHFSTER 
