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Keeping your sterling silver jewelry tarnish free can seem like an impossible task. For those of you who wear your silver on a regular basis, you know that it seems you can literally take your polished silver earrings off one night only to have them start to look yellowish by morning.
Although it seems like an impossible task to keep this from happening, with just a few easy steps you can help prevent your sterling silver jewelry from tarnishing. Even if it does begin to tarnish, if you can catch it in its early stages, you can easily remedy the situation.
The first thing you need to realize is that tarnish is typically caused by things that we do or wear. Perfume, lotions, sweaty skin and hair products can all cause your jewelry to begin to tarnish. If you take your jewelry off without wiping off the residue from these things, you are contributing to the tarnish. When you add the fact that most people leave their sterling silver jewelry sitting out, exposed to the air most of the time, tarnish becomes inevitable.
For this reason, you need to start to change your habits when putting on and removing jewelry. Before you put any jewelry on, you should make sure your lotion and perfume has soaked into your skin and all hair products, especially hairspray, should be applied. When you are removing your silver jewelry, you should take a few seconds to wipe it off with a soft cloth such as an old t-shirt or flannel shirt.
Once you wipe your jewelry clean, you should store it in an airtight container, such as a zip lock baggie, a cloth bag or an airtight jewelry box. The less air and light your silver is exposed to when you aren't wearing it, the less tarnished it will become.
If your sterling silver jewelry begins to show signs of tarnish, simply wipe it clean with a silver cloth. Most cloths come in two parts: a cleaning cloth and a polishing cloth. It is a soft cloth that should clean your jewelry with just a couple of wipes if the tarnish has not gotten too bad.
With just a few preventative measures, you can easily keep your sterling silver jewelry from becoming tarnished. Taking time to keep it clean after wearing it and storing it away from light and air is all you need to do to cut down on tarnish significantly and keep you from spending hours trying to get badly tarnished silver clean. The few seconds it takes to wipe it clean are well worth it in the end.
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The theme of "The Jewelry" by Guy de Maupassant is that life can be full of irony. I think that the author actually went a little overboard on this theme. Though I enjoyed no less for his overindulgence. Each of the ironies shown in "The Jewelry reveal how people keep secrets from one another or themselves, and/or reveals how people ignore a situation that upsets them if they are compensated enough. That compensation in this story is money.
The plot moved from one irony to the next to reveal either of these characteristics in M. Lantin and/or his first wife. The first couple of paragraphs reveal how respectable M. Lantin's wife is suppose to be. But even this early in the story, the author states that "The young girl seemed to be the very ideal of that pure good woman to whom every young man dreams of entrusting his future." That "...seemed to be..." lets the reader know that the young girl was not the pure woman everyone took her for. This shows that the girl was hiding something, though what that something was we didn't find out until later in the story.
The second irony we come across in this story, is the fact that they "...seemed to live in luxury", which in fact they did. Unbeknown to M. Lantin, his paychecks were being supplemented by his wife's lovers. That they were paying for his good food and fine wine. I believe if he had opened his eyes, and looked over the household finances; he would have known the money was coming from somewhere other than his paycheck. In this respect M. Lantin was being fooled by his own self as well as by his wife. But why not, he was happy!
And that takes us to our third irony. If M. Lantin hadn't stopped going to the theatre with his wife, then another man wouldn't have had the opportunity to flirt with her, and become her lover. In every other way, other than the theatre, and later the jewelry, M. Lantin's wife devoted herself to him. In paragraph five, it says that "It would be impossible to conceive of any attention, tenderness, playful caress which she did not lavish upon her husband..." She was in love as well as loving her husband. She devoted herself to him, except for her time at the theatre. So, if M. Lantin had been at the theatre with his wife, then his very presence would have stopped any affairs, if only because his wife's attention would have been on him or on the theatre, not another man. (Intermission would have been long enough for anybody to get it on! Not to mention while M. Lantin was at work.)
And then of course, there is the jewelry itself. The fact that the jewelry is real, while she had been acting like it was fake. Even so far as to let the light catch the crystal, and say, "Now, look at them - see how well the work was done. You would swear it was real jewelry.", when he would scold her for wearing the jewelry instead of being "adorned with one's natural beauty and grace." I''m sure she had fun dressing her husband in the jewelry and laughing at him wearing her lover's gifts.
Then when she died, and M. Lantin found out that the jewelry was real. The jewelry that the wife's lovers gave her paid for M. Lantin debauchery. After he realized he was rich, M. Lantin forgot all about his wife's affairs, and deluded himself that all was okay as long as he was rich. So much so, that six months after his wife died, he remarried to a good upstanding woman that made his life miserable.
That is the ultimate irony of this story and in life. That we are happiest having fun and not worrying about what we do or who we are doing it with. That we laugh, play, and enjoy life to the fullest whenever and wherever we find ourselves. And when we confine ourselves to a certain moral standard with no room for change, understanding, or at least the ability to agree to disagree; we end up making our lives and the lives of everyone around us miserable. This is the ultimate irony of life!
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