Show f I BRACEl BRACELET T EMBLEM OF POWER Afterward It Was a Reward of Bravery Brav Bray ery cry Shown In Battle Batie In the most ancient period of history his his- tory terr the bracelet was an ensign of ot royalty In later times it has been used In the East as a a. badge of power The bracelet of Rebecca mentioned In Genesis weighed 10 10 shekels o or about five ounces Among the ancient Romans the menas men menas menas as well as the women wore bracel bracelets ts but the latter never wore then thein til till they were betrothed Bracelets were at first properly military military military mili mili- tary ornaments ornaments or rewards frequently frequent frequent- ly Iy conferred among mong the ancients by generals and princes on those who behaved be be- haved gallantly In fight They became afterward after a arbitrary decorations assumed assumed as as- at pleasure The emblems says Fosbroke of ot supreme authority among the British kings were golden bands worn round the neck arms and knees Ornamented bracelets of brass have been found round the arms of skeletons in-British in b barrows The northern people used to swear on their bracelets to render contracts more mor inviolable e. |