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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18677, 5 October 1922, Page 4

A special ring for divorced women ip (ho Infest fashion which the Paris jewellers have just launched, and it is claimed that it has already had a great, sale, The foil ore of the ring is a gold Cupid s arrow, which has been broken in two. The fact that such a ring is being worn is pointed out ns indicating that divorce is no longer tbe matter for scandal that it used to be in France. A woman’s paper is now suggesting that “divorce cards’’ should be Font out to friends in (he same wav as “notices of marriage’’ arc at present sent. The New York City Health Department has just, inaugurated, a very groat reform by putting into force n regulation under which babies are to have their finger-prints taken and attached to (heir birth certificates. 'This practice will ho of the utmost value in safeguarding the lives of children, in finding them when they are lost, discovering their parents if they should bo abandoned, and making identity easy in any case of atnersronfiv.