The Queen and Her People
Boulogne-sur-Mer, where it is known as la Portugaise. In addition to these ornaments, one greatly prized is a coral “dog-collar,” which is just as highly valued as the one of pearls worn by rich ladies in this country. Earrings there are of many shapes, from the kurkentrekkers (corkscrews)—akin to bed-springs—to the quaint ear-ornaments looking like horses' blinkers, and fitted on above the ears with projecting triangular plates studded with pearls. The most valuable of all ornaments is the gouden kap, or skull-cap of gold, of Friesland. Its price is sometimes as high as eight hundred guilders, and it is worn by the married women only, and by widows. According to a legend of Medemblik, it constitutes the glorification of the crown of thorns. A gold “back-piece” is also worn on the nape of the neck. Nor is the male sex behindhand in its love of orna-
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