family jewels

 

These family jewels may be just rhinestones but they are still treasured heirlooms in my jewel box.  Even as a young lady in 1912, my grandmother wore her hair in an updo.  I only remember seeing her with her French twist (maintained with weekly visits to the beauty salon at Merle Norman).  These ornaments sometimes adorned her coiffure.

 

Bonnie Hutchins Fortenberry

1912