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Show BANISHING THE WEDDING RING. Chicago Record-Herald . A doughty young thinker, a New-Jersey New-Jersey ploslclan nnd Socialist, has In-tioduced In-tioduced a significant social reform. He mnrks his engagement by presenting pre-senting his flniiceo with n set or books Instead or nn engagement ring. After having mado a long retrospect of hu-man hu-man society ho concludes It is time for a change. Ho doplores the prlml- ' i tlvo day when man olther captured his female partner or purchased her from her parents, and when, once In possession, he placed a ring on her finger ns a smybol of Inferiority, 11 sign that'she was his personal . p'roi perty. Away with such an Idea! Danish Dan-ish tho ''ring.. Bring ,out -hi elegant blndlngslbsen,' Tolstoi, Shaw? Znng-will Znng-will and a few more ot the modern thinkers. |