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Ch. 5: Engagement Wedding Rings

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BETROTHAL AND WEDDING RINGS          235
Wilhelm Moroltinger to Archduke (later Emperor) Maximilian, just before his betrothal to Mary of Bur­gundy, daughter of Charles the Bold. This letter runs: "At the betrothal your Grace must have a ring set with a diamond and also a gold ring. Moreover, in the morning your Grace must bestow upon the bride some costly jewels." 58
From time immemorial we have had wedding-rings, but it seems that in view of the great number of divorces now granted we might well introduce the custom of giving " divorce-rings," for at no time in the history of the Christian world have there been more divorces than at the present day. This divorce-ring might be differ­entiated from the old-fashioned wedding-ring by sub­stituting the inscription abc from dee for abc and
DE F.
A novel idea in divorce-rings is reported from Chicago, where a fashionable divorcée had her wedding-ring made smaller so that she could wear it on the little finger of her left hand as a divorce-ring. However, we fear that if this idea should be generally adopted, the little finger would scarcely offer room for the series of rings that some of our theatrical stars would have to wear. Perhaps in some cases this wearing of the wed­ding-ring, even in a modified form, after a divorce, might be intended to indicate that the old love had not wholly vanished, and that some day those who had been put asunder could be rejoined, as occasionally happens now-a-days.
At weddings in Tunis, the Arabs have the custom of placing the wedding-ring upon the first finger of the left hand, and the finger and toe-nails of the bride
58 Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des aller­höchsten Kaiserhauses, vol. i, Pt. II, p. xxi, Wien, 1883.
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