THE WEEDING RING.

Dunstan Times, Issue 627, 24 April 1874, Page 3

THE WEEDING RING.

. I The superstitious belief which nearly all married women have in the hidden virtues of the wedding ring lias often struck me as being very affecting. Kine-womcnoutofl.cn will tell you that their wedding-ring has never been off their lingers since the day they were married, and would look oh an accident that would 1 al to a removal of the matrimonial emblem as a misfoitunc to le for ever deplored. Tin’s speaks well for women It shews how they cherish us in their very heart of beans, and how they strive to have always before them an outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual grace we have given to their lives. It is well that custom requires the Eyiru ol of the married state to ho worn by the woman. It allows her an opportunity of publicly expressing the value in which she holds it, and in crontiilly her loyalty to the man who placed it there. It is to the woman what ll;e Victorian Cross is to the soldier, or the nine ribbon to the statesman—something to be openly worn, and never parted with while life holds She may scold us and quarrel with us, neglect her home and flirt with other men, lecture us for half an hour if we a minute late to dinner, but she clings to the wedding-ring through all, and would shudder at the thought of taking it off. From which we draw the conclusion that thej love us a great deal more, in a secretive kind of manner, than we give them credit for.—Sketcher.