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Show tV.-d.lins kins. If marriage is not a failure there isn't a ijuesunii a.- to the indifferent regard in which the wedding ring is held. Even the jeweler has a semi-contemptuous way of presuming the tray if plain gold bands and the tantalizing preference for dismal tunes which ho hums or whistles softly, but none the less significantly, as he makes a note of the initials to be inscribed. in-scribed. Very young brides wear the yellow band, but in swell circles young married ladies have tho bravado to lay I aside the emblem of undying love as soon 1 as the honeymoon is over. i Among older wives tho ring is discard- ed altogether, and if you inquire about 1 it the matron will calmly tell you it's, Much an unfashionable piece of jewelry lo be obliged to wear and as a result the young lady daughters in tho family are married with a seal ring, nut one of which can be procured for the paltry $7 j the price of tho yellow band. Emeralds, . rubies and tunpiois, set in small but brilliant diamonds, uro popular as wed- ' ding jewels, and not, a few bridegrooms: have wedded their ideal with a marquise i of diamonds. A bride of a mouth ago was married will) a serpentine ring, composed of two! snakes exquisitely carved, each with a1 precious jewel in its head. To show the low degree of enthusiasm for the time honored symbol of conjugal love at the , last coaching club dinner party given in I the Hrunswiok, but three ladies out of 1 forty, all attended by their husbands woro the plain gold band. Thero were clusters of diamonds, circlets of pearls and solitaire stones hy tho quart, but tho single trio displayed the simple yellow yel-low huop. (Irass widows find the band particularly particu-larly obnoxious, and those gay and festive fes-tive wives who have a few more links of freedom than is wholesome never give it position outside of the jewel casket. At the resorts and in social gatherings one hears frequent outbursts from the young and innocent society men who protest against what they consider misplacement mis-placement of the only badge that distinguishes dis-tinguishes a married woman from a spinster. New York World. |