Gilded Age Etiquette for New Couples

You have a little band around the third finger of your left hand in which is set a turquois, and when it was put there you remembered that the ‘Hindoo’ said: “He who hath a turquois hath a friend.” 

When Girls Are Engaged

You have a little band around the third finger of your left hand in which is set a turquois, and when it was put there you remembered that the ‘Hindoo’ said: “He who hath a turquois hath a friend.” 

Now, that’s what you have in the man you love best, and whose wife you are going to become — a friend. He is your sweetheart, your lover, it is true, but because to you his heart seems best worth having, his love the richest gift you can possess, you will not vulgarize, as many girls do, the tie that binds you. 

It is true you go with him alone to hear some wonderful music, or look at some fine pictures, but I hope it is not true that when you are at a party or in your own home you two pair-off and make yourselves the objects for silly. chatter and idiotic jesting.—Ladies’ Home Journal, 1892

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