30 Loves Garland. 
betrothal-rings were made of gold, and it is 
on these I venture now to make a few re- 
marks. To enter broadly into the history of 
finger-rings would be but to traverse the 
works of the Rev. C. W. King (“ Antique 
Gems and Rings”) and Mr. William Jones 
(“‘ Finger-ring Lore”), both of whom have 
dealt exhaustively with the subject; to 
attempt anything of this kind is not my in- 
tention. Mr. King tells us (in his beautiful 
work just alluded to) that “Gold was before 
the introduction of coinage much in use 
among the Egyptians, and circulated in the 
form of a ring, and the Egyptian on his 
marriage placed one of these rings of gold 
on his bride’s finger in token of his intrusting 
her with all his property”; and Clemens 
remarks “that the early Christians saw no 
harm in following this custom.” In our own 
marriage ceremony the man places the same 
plain gold ring on his bride’s finger when he 
says, ‘With all my worldly goods I thee 
