The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-14
RENO" RING FOR DIVORCEE
Worn by Those Who Have Crossed the
Great Divide" Denotes Freedom.

A divorce ring has been invented
Those who have need of some emblem
to show that they have crossed one
of the great divides say that it will
fill long felt want. Up to now there
has been way to distinguish the
Divorce. If she chung to sentiment and
memories and still wore her wedding
ring on its accustomed finger folks took
it for granted that she was married.
if she discarded the wedding ring al
together people decided that she still
wore Miss" before her name, which
barrassing. The poor divorce had no
way of denoting her state matrimonial
ly.
The divorce ring will solve all of the
tablishing her state of unmarriage
goes. 1t is first aid to the inquisitive,
and does away with all awkward
questions.
The divorce ring was invented by a
New York woman. 1t proved SO popu-
lar that almost simultaneously it was
seen upon the fair fingers of a dozen
popular divorces. None of them will
take the honor for it's discovery, but all
agree that it is 1.-The best ever in the
way of rings 1t has been nicknamed
the Reno ring" and not even the
latest laws concerning divorces and
Reno will have any effect upon the
name of the Reno ring.
For m any generations a small gold
For many generations a small gold
left hand has signified matrimony. All
newly married women displayed this
conSpicuouSly and Self-consciously as
WELL
But it is the right hand that in the
future will receive the first scrutiny.
That is where the Reno ring is to be
worn. The fad has already reached
Chicago.
The Reno ring is just the wedding
ring, the plain little band of gold slip
ped on the other hand. 1t is still worn
on the third finger, but it is the right
hands third finger instead.
There is a great deal of discussion
as to the design for the new Reno
ring. Many divorces believe that the
divorce ring should have an entirely
new design of it's own, something sig
may tell it at a glance and not mix it
with its modest little predecessor. 9th
er divorces want to keep the design
as it is now, just a band of gold.
This emblem of renewed freedom is
likely to be the forerunner of many
things in divorce fads. Taking into
consideration the hundreds of divorces
that are issued each day the divorce
is able to do almost anything she
wishes in the way of establishing new
customs and fads.
at won't be very long" said one of
the prominent wearers of the Reno
ring, before every one will know that
a ring on the third finger of the right
hand, wedding ring now, but later
some other design perhaps, means a
divorce. 1t will save hundreds of fool
ish questions. People whom you
haven't seen for years won't rush in
that was. AS long as there is divorce
there ought to be some way of indi-
eating it"
The Reno ring will perhaps always
moved" There are several reasons
for leaving it in this form. First of
all there is sentiment. There is some
thing about a first wedding ring that
makes the wearer hate to part with
it. No matter what has happened
since the marriage took place the
memory of what it meant when it was
first placed in position will always re-
main with the wearer. First love and
the first wedding ring. The first may
disappear, but it is quite possible to
retain the second as a memento of it.
But in spite of sentiment. the d.
vorcee may not want to wear the we'd
ding ring on the hand where it was
wants to wear it, though. Hence the
shift to the right hand. And on the
right hand it becomes the Reno ring,
an entirely different thing, with a new
meaning. The woman of sentiment
has been able to keep her wedding
ring and show that she is divorced at
the same time.
When the wedding ring has been made
into a Reno ring by a simple twist of
the wrist the wedding finger is, of
course. free again. So the Reno ring has
double significance. 1t seems so say:
If I can't succeed at first I'll be willing
to try again" A sutton need not despair
of winning a divorce If she wears a
Keno ring.
So watch the right third finger after
this. If it is encircled by a slender band
of gold you'll know that its wearer has
hnRn r7a WOlIldn'f mind taking
another chance, perhaps.
The ministers are taking sides on the
Reno ring. Some think 1t is too frivolous
for consideration. Some think that it is
a degrading use ofs the wedding ring. Still
others believe that if worn by all d.
vorcees it will wake the people to the
number of divorces that are occurring
every day. and Will prove a good method
of making folks think twice before taking
the important steps of both marriage and
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