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Imprimis, color: avicula margaritifera, the pearl oyster, is a capricious mother. Sometimes her offspring is white, sometimes pink, yellow, blue, black, but unless they are grotesquely malformed, all are precious. In the Far East, cream yellow is the favorite tint because it shows to excellent advantage against the Oriental skin. Similarly, Westerners prefer pink pearls; not a deep pink, which is almost invariably muddy, but a pale rosée. Color can best be examined by placing the pearl on white cotton under a strong natural light...
...canvas in which a pretty maiden is seen writing a billet-doux. There was a fusillade of bidding. Sir Henri pounced on the foreigners, kept raising the bid "dix mille guilders" at a leap. He triumphed at $127,600. It all happened again with Jacob Ochtervelt's The Oyster Eaters. For this gastronomic scene Sir Henry offered $83,600. Several Americans slumped in their chairs. The limitless resources of Sir Henry's preposterous wallet were exasperating. Over and over he took what he wanted. Two of the paintings he gave immediately to Dutch museums. Dutchmen were convinced that...
John North Willys, automobileman, has an estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island. On the estate is a private beach. On the beach was found floating last week the body of a dead man. On the man was only underwear. His clothes, discovered later on the Willys beach, contained the following memo: "Sunday-Took a trip to Oyster Bay. The afternoon is sunny and cheerful. Sorry I did not bring my bathing suit, as I find quite a few bathing and enjoying it." The ill-fated intruder on Mr. Willys' private beach was identified as R. A. Richard, Manhattan salesman...
Died. Stephen A. Connell, 55, secret service man who saved President Theodore Roosevelt from an attack by a crazed farmer at the Roosevelt's Oyster Bay home; of heart disease; at St. Louis, Mo. He used to wrestle and box with President Roosevelt, often said, "Teddy could sock...
...silk. This is also true of pearls. The U. S. and France sell the artificial ones. Thus people learn the beauty of the real ones and buy-from Mexico, Ceylon, Arabia. Into this double pearl demand Japan has insinuated itself. Work people drop a grain of irritant into an oyster's shell. A kind of hard felon develops in the oyster. It is a cultured pearl...