Love-Making Up-to-Date.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue VII, 16 February 1901, Page 326

Love-Making Up-to-Date.

The engagement ring is becoming a thing ol tue past, xrue lovers uow pugut tneir troui by tatooxng, or by uracelets, or “ anklets.” One might tluuk so to read 01 the lover who not long ago persuaded his lianeee to have a Bracelet tatooed on her arm as a mark ot her alfection, or of the young woman living in London who wears a golden circle round her ankle which is locked with a lock that can be opened only by her lover. it is considered quite the proper thing at present for the parties to an engagement to wear rings or bracelets made of each other's hair. An athlete, well known, too, while he was engaged, wore a belt set with costly jewels with locks of his fiancee’s hair intertwined. One of the most remarkable pledges exchanged was that of the young woman and her lover who had diamonds set in their front teeth when they became engaged. When they were married the jewels were taken out and placed in rings. There was a certain amount of pain, which made the pledge all the more remarkable. There is a story, too, of a famous actor whose fiancee had lost the nail from a finger of her left hand. To her, when they became engaged, he gave a finger nail of gold, inscribed with his initials, and had it put in place by a famous surgeon.

In some countries, Austria for instance, gold bracelets are the proper thing in engagements. But, after all, the good old solitaire diamond engagement ring continues to be the favourite.