The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-18
BUYING THE WEDDING RING.

BUYING THE WEDDING RING.
Habits OF CsuPIss in Choosing Golden |
Just think Of II! One jevyelry store
on the Bowery claims 20 sell over four
hundred wedding rings a year. aud
vet we hear the cry that men are not
marrying" II one out of the many stores
that supply these golden letters of mat
rimoEy can dispose Of such a number
within q year, what must the sales
amount to when all those that are sup
piled by other firms are added2
Surely somebody's getting married
Down on the BOwery, near Grand
street, there hangs a golden hoop large
enough to marry all the brides on that
side OF town. il is hung above jew
elry store, and can be seen as well from
the elevated road as from the sidewalk
II was from the window Of a downtown
train that first caught sight OF it. A
young country looking couple that sat
near by also noticed the giant-lilEe en-
blem Of wedlocls, and heard the girl
whisper: 30, Willie, there's where we
got our ring" But Willie didn't look
until the car had passed the store; then
he raised his eyebrows . little aud said,
II see" indiffereutlY, and turned again
to the paper he had been PeTusing. The
girl bit her lips, and looked down at
the gold band upon her unglOved hand.
At the next station left the train
and visited the store where willie"
had bought the ring. One Of the sales
men said, in answer to a question,
There isn't as much sentiment in the
business as one might suppose. By the
time the happy couple arrive here they
have got beyond the blushing stage of
/ heart disease, and they buy the ring in
the most matter. Of-fsct way. Some
times the man aud woman come to-
gether, but usually the gentleman
I comes alone TO get the ring.
do women ever select and pay for
their own wedding rings? Not very
I often. although there was lady here
/ last week who did so. When a couple
| come in together the man picks out a
ring and asks his friend il it will do,
I and she invariably answers Yes
l Then he pays for it and that's all there
| is about it"
/ What size of ring is usually re-
/ guired?" 7 asked I'm this part OF the
! city" replied the practical salesman,
| from six and a quarter to seven are
. the usual sizesi but they run smaller
/ uptown on broadway"
Upon the counter he then placed two
/ trays containing wedding rings Some
! OF them appeared too large for any
/ finger but that of q giant; yet IL hap
/ pens some times that these are not large
/ enough for a would be purchaser. It is
/ customary among the Germans for both
! the man and woman to buy a ring and
! make q mutual gift on the wedding day.
/ The price OF a wedding ring on the
/ Bowery ranges from eight dollars TO
/ twenty Ave dollars, the average price
/ being ten dollars to fifteen dollars In
| style. the OId-fasEioned plain round cir
/ Gle is generally preferred. because it is
/ as com ortable in the dishPau in the
| dTawingrOom, and the sentimental lit
[ tie wife need never take It on for fear
of its being spoiled
When asked how long It usually took
to purchase wedding ring, the sales
. man laughed, and answered that in his
| fourteen years experience Il had never
taken couple longer than half an hour
to select one, usually ten minutea The
woman seems 20 think it's best to hurry
! in buying, or her escorts mind may
change on the subject
1--WE have never" said he, had
. ring that was bought returned because
the marriage didn't come on. Some
| times a gentleman orders q ring made
that is too heavy for the slender finger
/ that Is to wear IL, and then he brings it
back and we take of some OF the gold
| Frequently, too. people bring US old
/ rings to be melted and made over, but
this we refuse TO do"
''Why?'' ] asked because we can
not promise to give them back the same
gold that they brought u.s." he an
8WGFEQ VI course We s6uQ tuG 1rLl-
Gle TO be made over to the WorAmen,
but it is thrown into the same cruciblc
as ell the other gold, and who knows
after that which was 'graudua's ring
or the 'bRby's spoon not we, surely. -
He then told story Of two couples who
had ordered four rings made that
weighed three ounces altogether They
were brothers who mt-rrisd sisters. and
Notwithstanding the well-kuovvu super
stitiOn in regard to such marriages.
that one out Of the four will die before
the year is past-these people are alive
and happy, and they have been married
six years. N Y. Advertiser