Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-16

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Stud the Wedding Ring With a SYM hslic
Birthmonth Gem-The Mummy's Ivory
Circiet-Mary stuart's Marriage to
Darnley Sealed With Four Rings
Another Bride Welded With Twelve
Bands.
Special Correspondence Of Gazette sud Journal
New YoRK, May 10.-Everybody has
been getting married, and, consequently
everybody is immensely interested in
the ring which doth wed these two
people and endow ono of them with all
the worldly goods of the other. Some.
times the worldly goods are not worth
having. Sometimes the amount of love
given could be banded by the golden
circlet, and sometimes, and think this
Is the oftenest, there is enough gold and
enough love to make two people happy
for while at least. l have always been
able to understand the woman who
loved to wear rings. She doesn't see
necklace, or a tiara, or wonderful
brooch; but, when everybody is stupid,
she can spread out her hands and gaze
upon her rings and find wonderful
pleasure in the beautiful stones, and in
the fact that they make their back
ground look even whittier than it is. l
don't know which is the more i'm
portant, the engagement or the wedding
ring, but there is more romance about
the first than the last. Nowadays every
woman wears the same kind of we'd
ding ring, which has become badge of
honor. In America one occasionally
sees young girl wearing plain gold
ring, which, in my opinion, is in very
bad taste. In England, one looks at a
woman's left hand and knows right
away whether she is "the missus" or
not, and from Victoria, Queen of Eng
land and Empress of India, down to the
wife OF the costermonger, the "plain"
gold band is the badge of wifehood.
Z WEARING OF THE WEDDING RING
A long time ago the wedding ring
was worn on the forefnger, and was
thickly studded with precious stones.
People who have seen the old pictures
of the Madonna in Rome, will remem.
Der that in one or two of them there is a
sglistening ring on the forefnger of her
right hand, but with Christianity came
the wearing of the wedding ring on the
third finger rather than the first. The
old story of there being vein that runs
from that finger to the heart Is non
sense. Its use originated in this way
The priest first put it on the thumb, say
ing, "In the name of the Father; on
the forefnger, adding, SIN the, name of
the Son.; on the second finger, repeat
ing SIN the name of the Holy Ghost"
and on the third finger, ending with
"Amen," and there it stayed-a badge Of
true love and of belief in Christ.
Among the Italians, those people so
devoted to color, permeated with sym.
bolism, was born the idea of having the
wedding ring set with stone dedicated
to the month in which the bride first saw
the light of this world. The months to
which the gems belong vary, but close
study on my part has resulted in giving
this as the proper calender. The bride
of January has the garnet, the stone oil
constancy and the one which gives tc
her not only the ability TO attract other!
but to keep them. She of February has
the amethyst, which brings to her sin
cerity in speech, freedom from Islander
and the certainty that if an enemy give!
her poison it will have no more effect or
her than if it were pure milk. However
do not think any bride of to-day woulC
like to be experimental on with arsenic
simply because she had an amethys
ring. She Of March assumed the bl0oC
stone, or to call it by its prettier nam
and the one given to it in the Bible, tn,
hyacinth. This gem brought her wis
dom aud courage and gave her patienc,
to control her household and make thu
ladies Of the kitchen subservient to her
Aprips bride was given diamond, anI
=. Just as long as the stone remains cea
she retains her innocence, and remain
pure in her love.
THE MAY GIRL GETS THE EMERALD.
That means good health for her who
wears 1t, and certainty that she will
be happy wife. June, with its sun
shine, its golden days and its brigh
red roses, brought to its daughter til
ruby, which kept away from her tn
mean vice of jealousy, and made he
affectionate in her love. July introdu
ces to its child the coral, the stone tina
kept her free from fevers, and gave he
that great blessing, a contented mine
August offered to hers the moonston,
and assured her of happiness in he
married life. September's gem is th
sapphire, the preventive of madness, tn
gem of Christianity, and the stone o
which the commandments were writer
She who wears it will never QUAR-,
with her husband. October finds f
her girl the Carbuncle, which present
to her the divine gift Of song, make
her low-voiced, and gives a great loy
for her home. To tine November Bird
alone belongs the opal. She will /
changeabie like the stone, but alway
will she be cheerful and able to contrt
her moods, no matter how dark the day
may be. And December, the last mont
of the year, offers her offspring the bea,
tiful blue turquoise, which says, :" /
who hath turquoise, hath friend
and which only changes color when Il
giver grows cold and the health is poo
Among the peasantry of Germany Il
turquoise is still counted a necessity
the betrothal ring, so that the beoyt
one can always tell whether her swee
heart is true or not.
The most curios wedding ring | his
ever seen is exhibited in the Bhta
Museum, and was
TAKEN FROM THE FINGER OF A MuNSt
who was just the height of Cleopat.
and who had evidently been, from t
number Of jewels up her, a great lad
1t was Of no precious metal. Instead
was carved out of ivory, and the dcsi
showed two elias ped hands, the wo
baiug excessively tine, So that one cUa
easily distinguish from their shape IL
size that one hand was meant fortL4l
woman, and the other for the hand
man. In digging among the b
Roman graves similar ring was f0Ur
the difference being that the Rom
rln5 showed q single hand CiaspiLA
. heart. When Mary stuart was Unid af