Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-12
NEW FAD IN RINGS
Use and Beauty Combined in
Goth Century.
SEAL CIRCLETS LIKED
HAS PICTURESQUE ADVANTAGES
AND PRACTICAL ONES.
How a Hungry Music Student Found
It an Open Sesame to
Free Lunch.


Written for The Evening Star.
Seal rings are the most popular Just now
with girls-that is, their popularity is sec
ond only to that of engagement rings.
Nothing will ever disturb the pre-eminent
place which the engagement ring has in
the affections of girl. but seal rings at
any rate have reached the dignity of a fad.
These rings come in all sorts of designs.
They were first worn by college girls. who
had their college and class insignia cut in
the seal, but the designs are now multifari-
GUS. Some girls have their monogram or
coat-of-arms on the seal and employ it in
sealing letters. Others have adopted the
plan Of using the flower belonging to their
birth month-an idea borrowed, no doubt.
from the custom of wearing birth-month
stones. Then there is the college girl, who
started the fad and who sticks to either
her college, class sorosity emblem for a
design.
Three girls comparing rings the other day
began to discuss the practical uses of such
a ring.
II have solved a perplexing problem"
said the girl who keeps house for her
bachelor brother. you know l do all the
marketing for the house myself l am of
age, but l suppose that / look inexperienced
in the eyes Of the butcher, the market man
L
until recently I was dreadfully taken In
almost every time / bought anything
paid more than the market price for gro
ceries and everything else and did not al
ways get the best a that
One of my married friends told me that
the trades people always looked at a wo-
man customers hand to see whether she
wore wedding ring If they saw that she
did, they presumed that she knew some-
thing about meats and vegetables and that
sort of thing, and were afraid to try to de-
ceive her. I thought over what she said
ana the next time l went to market / turn
cd my ring around so that the seal was on
the Inside. and the ring looked like the
plain gold band which denotes matrfmony
Brought Down Prices.
It worked like a charm. When was or
dering anything 1 kept my left hand in such
a position that the ring was prominently
displayed before the eyes of the shopkeeper
Since adopted the plan We have had the
best of everything in the market and at
prices averaging about 10 cents less on the
dollar than l had been paying for inferior
merchandise"
You are not the only one who has found
that 1t Is sometimes better to be mistaken
for married woman said the girl who
works in an Office in the business district
1t often happens that my work keeps
me at the office until or o'clock in the
evening, especially during the busy season
This is not altogether unpleasant for COM
ing home at that hour l escape the crowds
which make street car riding at the rush
hour thing to be dreaded, but more than
once have been selected by some masher'
as the object of his decidedly unwelcome
Intentions.
The Washer Scorned
by preserving a stony rigidity of de-
meanor and utterly ignoring the existence
of the 'masher' I am usually safe from an
noyanoe but even this plan does not al
ways work. 30 now 1 keep book at the
office. and when am detained T read 1t on
the car. turning my ring around until 1t
looks like wedding ring and holding the
book in my left hand. a woman who is alb
sorbed in book is discouraging PROPOSE
ton to the most persistent 'masher and
one glance at what he supposes to be