Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-05-17 | Page 12 | Origin of the Wedding-Ring

ORIGIN OF THE WEDDING RING The rhe wedding ring says the Ladles Ladles' Home Journal Is the subject of quaint historical facts and endless superstitions It was probably chosen as the symbol of marriage more for convenience than anything anything anything any any- thing else It is supposed to be a symbol of unbroken love and of power and to carry special curative virtues with it The fhe old luck good-luck saying about it is As your our wedding ring wears your cares Will wear away The The ancients Pliny among the rest believed that a dell delicate ate nerve ran directly from the ring finger to the heart and that the ring placed on that finger was very closely connected with the heart In early Christian m marriages the bridegroom brides bride's 1 03 thumb m put ht then the o on ring the first first oh finger the then on the second and last of all on the third saying as he did In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost The thumb and first two fingers represented the Trinity th the th next finger g was a the one the ring was left on to show O that h next t to God w a womans woman's a ts duty was to her husband