The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-06
Your Wedding Ring.


The feast is preparcdthc guests bidder,
and all thing, made ready
IN the pocket, of your vest is the tiny
box containing the golden tali-man
which is to change all your future life.
How your heart beat, with glad, tn
mllltuou, throbbng at thought of the
shining circlct resting just above it, and
how abSurdly happy YOU have felt ever
since the wonderful thing has been in
your possession.
The clerk in the jewellers store saw
through the elaborate unconcern of
your air, and was no whit deceived by
the careless tone in which you asked for
plain gold rings. Wedding rings, sir?"
hequestioned with a sympathetic smile,
as he handed you the box. Then with
what interest he watched you fit the gilt
tcring band on your smallest finger, Civ
ing advice as TO weight, size and style
with kind friendlincss.
Out on the street, after your purchase
was made, what delicious thrills kept
tlnglng through your veins, and what
warm sunshiny feeling there was
dbpul your ncdrt
In the eNubcrance of your JOY YOU
could have embraced the whole world,
and three times YOU went out of Your
way to help tired, frightened children
over the crowded crossings. In the
strcet-car YOU surrendered your seat to
the stout woman with the biz market
ba~kct,withOut a reb"llious thought and
stood On the platform with the driver
contcntcdly for fifteen long blocks. Lit
tie beggar girl, reaped from YOU an
abundant harvest and lively, impudent
bo0t-blach, regarded YOU a. their legit-
innate prey, Sitting in your armchair
now, in your solitary bachelor apart
ment, soon 10 be solitary and bachelor
no longer, you take the tiny caskct from
your pocket, and with the golden band
: between your fingers, fall adrcsming of
the things to he.
Deep down in the sanctuary of Your
heart is cherished the VOW to love, pro-
tect and cherish with all honor and ten
derness the woman this circlet binds to
you forever.
How earnestly and faithfully You plan
to shield and guard her, striving ever to
advance in truth and noblencSS so that
Your breast may always be fitting
shrine for her pure love. With what
tender reverence YOU touch with Your
lips the shining token of the bliss to be.
as you murmur a prayer in your heart
that God will bless the glad, new life
and make and keep YOU worthy Of the
little hand so soon to wear Your we'd
ding-ring,
In your reverie in the deep armchair,
love holds aloft a fairy mirror, and pie
lures all the morrow's scene. In fancy
You behold the dear form clad in flow
ing snowy garments and enveloped in
t'imSy cloud OF lace. floating beside
You up the aisle Of the stately old
church. The graceful dropping head is
crowded with orange flowers, and in
the beautiful eyes is tender luminous
shining Around the SWEEP lips plays
q quiycriug smile like an April sun
shine, and the hand on your arm trlm-
ble- a little.
The grand solemn ceremony begins
which binds her fair young life to yours,
for JOY or grlet, veal or woe, TIL death
shall break the link aud H. the words
fill your ears YOU realize with grateful,
awed intensity that a grand, wonderful
responsibility and power over the hap
pinesS OF a human life is given into your
keeping.
Then you walk drcamiIy down the
aisle and are driven home, where YOU
partake OF the wedding breakfast and
make speech Of thanks when the
health of the bridal couple is proposed,
with only vague, indistinct notion of
what YOU are doing, for heart and brain
are filled to Overlooking with the glad
cXultant consciousness that the wonder
tul white-robed creature beside Won is
your wife, and that on the third finger
Of her hand CLEANS your golden we'd
ding-ring.