Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — The Thumb Ring. [ARTICLE]

The Thumb Ring.

The fashion, occasionally observed, of wearing a ring on the thumb is of ancient origin, there being the mummy of a woman in the British Musenm wearing a ring on each thumb. Ancient kings who could not write their names wore massive seal rings on their thumbs, with which they signed important documents. Falstaff declared that when he was young he could have crept into any Alderman’s thumb ring. In Germany rings were worn on every finger and upon the thumbs. In this country wearing a ring upon the thumb denotes a strong friendship between two people of opposite sexes, but it is seldom the souvenir of love. Oscar "Wilde and George Macdonald, the novelist, both wear thumb-rings. So does Edmund Russell, the apostle of aestheticism.— Detroit Free Press. A quart of beans in the pot is worth a hundred pounds of corned beef on the hoof. . See V