Young Woman’s Investment

A woman forfeits her wedding ring to donate to the Woman’s Suffrage movement.

On the ground she needed no outward symbol of love, a Philadelphia young woman declined to receive an engagement ring from her fiance, but was induced to accept the $100 which he intended to lay out on the token. They had been married six months before he knew what she had done with the money, and he was chagrined to find that she had purchased a life membership in the Woman’s Suffrage society.

“Young Woman’s Investment,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed April 24, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/101.