Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — The Syndicate Engagement Ring. [ARTICLE]

The Syndicate Engagement Ring.

Detroit Free Press. The girl in the white duck suit was sitting on the piazza of the hotel waiting for the girl in the fluffy gown to take a stroll across the lawn. She hadn’t long to wait, and the girl in the fluffy gown came out looking radiant. “My!” exclaimed the White Duck, “how nice and cool you look.” “Thanks,” responded Fluff, “and I fee! like I look,” and she patted her flounces and furbelows affectionately, as women are wont to do. The White Duck during the performance saw something. “Oh,” she said with a little scream, “where did you get that ring?” “That,” said Fluff, laying her hand out before her and contemplating it carefully. “That? Why, that is my engagement ring.” “That can’t be;” contended the White Duck. “And why not?” “Nobody ever heard of a cluster for an engament ring.” “Well, they will hear of it now, for this is an engagement ring.” “Why didn't you select a solitaire?” Fluff shrugged her shoulders prettily: “Because,” she twittered, “it isn’t that kind of ah engagement. This is a summer engagement ring, and nothing but a cluster could be appropriately emblematic.”