WEDDING RING ROMANCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXX, Issue 8697, 4 January 1907, Page 1

WEDDING RING ROMANCE.

A lost ■wedding ring has been recovered atjNew Columbus, near Wilkesbarre, U.S.A., by a ckance so exceedingly remote tkat it would be incredible were the facts not vouched for by a gentleman named George Well, living at New Columbus. He was engaged to be married, both bride and bridegroom being members of leading local families, and the affair, which it had been arranged should take place at the Episcopal Church, was looked forward to with considerable interest. The bridegroom had booked, passages for himself and his bride for a honeymoon tour in Europe. Two days before the ceremony the bridegroom received from a Wilkeabarre jeweller a box containing a pearl and diamond necklace, his wedding gift to the bride, four souvenir pendants for the bridesmaids, and also the wedding ring, engraved inside with his own and the bride’s initials and the date of the ceremony. The necklace and pendants he handed to his fiancee, but the bride being superstitious of even seeing the ring until the moment of the ceremony, he placed it for r.afety in his waistcoat pocket and promptly lost it. Search was made everywhere, but was unavailing, and the ill-omened incident had such an effect on the young lady’s mind that when it was still unfound on the day of the ceremony, she declined to consent to the substitution of another ring, and broke off the match while the carriage was waiting at the door. Eecently Mr Well, walking in his garden, stooped to pull a cabbage plant which had a stunted appearance compared with others. As the plant left the ground the cause of its defective growth vras disclosed. Tightly encircling the root was the lost wedding ring.

He took the plant just as he found it to the bride’s mother, who. removing the ring, identified it by the inscaiption, and the delayed marriage was quietly celebrated at tho bride’s home that evening.