Wedded Without Ring

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7295, 4 August 1930, Page 11

Wedded Without Ring

THE BRIDE EXPLAINS. An unusual incident, which considerably surprised a registrar of marriages recently occurred at the end of the ceremony between a young couple at a register office in the West End of London. Tho brido and bridegroom had just completed their vows to take each other as lawful husband and wife, when tho official asked the bridegroom to place the ring on the finger of his wife. "But I have no ring,” said the bridegroom to the astonished official. "You see, my wife wants to bo without one.”. As the registrar glanced from ono to the other the bride exclaimed: "Yes, you see, we are modern, and wedding rings are old-fashioned.” Discussing the incident with a Sunday Dispatch representative, tho official said: "The fact that no ring was placed on the finger of the bride in no way invalidates the marriage.” Marcello PerTenoud, who worked in close collaboration with Clemenceau as his private secretary, writing of the "real man -inside the Tiger,” says that his mother wag his ideal of feminine virtue, for she possessed smplicity and common sense, the qualities he admired most in a woman, "She never had more than two dresses, he would say, "and that did not prevent her raising a brood of children.” A bobbed or shingled head was to him heresy, and he considered that jewellery worn by women was a survival of slavery.