Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1899 — Wedding Ring. [ARTICLE]

Wedding Ring.

In Germany the custom still prevails that wives should give their husbands a wedding ring at the nuptial service in return for the one they receive from the man they have accepted. Married women being generally superstitious as to the removal of their own wedding rings, it will surprise nobody to learn that Teuton dames are very touchy as regards the respect paid by their spouses to the token of bondage they have accepted. If it be removed from the wedding finger, woe be to the husband should he be unfortunate enough to be discovered. A story comes from Berlin about a certain poulterer of Meissen, the loss of whose wedding ring utterly destroyed for a time the domestic peace of his home. At last, however, he was able to vindicate his character. His wife was receiving money at the till one day when a lady customer walked Into the' shop. “Have you lost your wedding ring?” she asked the poulterer. The eyes of the jealous wife were fixed upon him. He boldly replied in •the affrmatlve. “Well,” said the customer with an artful smile, “here it is.” The wife glared. “I bought a sausage here the other day, and when I cut it up I came across the ring. I presume it fell from your finger while you were making sausages."