Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1911 — SPARKLE IS NOT NECESSARY [ARTICLE]

SPARKLE IS NOT NECESSARY

New York Judge Rules That Any Kind of Ring Is Sufficient to* Solemnize Engagement. New York. —After being taken in as a son-in-law by the family of the girl who says he proposed marriage and having fed at the family board on “gefulite fisch,” "kniedele” and other such delicacies until, as he said, his waist had grown three inches. Emanuel Berstein, a cap manufacturer, refused to marry Miss Bessie Wallowitz. She is now suing him In the city court for SIO,OOO for breach of promise. Miss Wallowitz was spending her vacation in Connecticut when the defendant wrote her the letter in which he told how he was “gormandizing” at the home of her parents. The plaintiff said that they were to be married last fall, and he gave her an engagement ring. Counsel for the defendant wanted to know what kind of a ring it was. and the plaintiff said that it was a plain gold ring. The question arose whether a plain gold ring could be considered as an engagement ring. Judge Smith then handed down an opinion that any kind of a ring that was given to solemnise an engagement was an engagement ring.