Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1881 — A Story of a Ring. [ARTICLE]

A Story of a Ring.

Detroit Chart. We hear a good deal about rings newadavs, and nothing very good bf them either. I heard of a ring the ojher day that told a story—in 'act its own story. The ring glistened on the finger of a washwoman through the suds in a tub,and thus betrayed a secret. The lady of a certain house in this city had advertised .for a laundress to come to her house on certain days. The advertisment was responded to by a neat rather refined looking woman. When • the laundress had begun her work the lady saw, shining on a shapely hand, a pretty and peculiar ring. She requested the privilege of leoking at it. The woman hesitated a moment, and then nervously held out her hand. “That Is a elaas ring,” said the lady. “It is,” was the respbnse of the laundress, as she turned her face away. “Where did you get it?” asked the lady, emboldened, porhaps, by the manner of the wearer of the ring. “It is my husband’s.” “At what college did ho graduate?” “At Yale.” JX “In what class?” “The class of ,75.” That ended the interview for the time, as the lady could by no means get from the washwoman the name of ber husband. The lady had thus been unladylike, perhaps, aud curious be-cause-her sou wore a class ring fxaotly like die one Jn question, and was a graduate In toe class bf ’75 at Yftle. She told him the story, and one night he followed the laundress to her rooms in Michigan avenue; where hp found classmate and college chum poring over some second-hand law books. He works in the day time and *so does his trump of a wife. One day he will be admitted to the bar, he will work hard, she will help him, and when they are rich they can afford to smile at the afory of the ring—which is strictly true. .