Show OO How It Started L By JEAN NEWTON THE rUE WEDDING RING RINGO O ON N WITH your wedding wedding ring ray my Feminist IE sister elster who with tears In your jour o r eyes eIt'S stamped your lour little foot toot and said For the Cause 1 I I will be b. beno beno no no mans man's chattel 1 l while you tenderly tE tied It around your lour ne neck c and tucked the ribbon beneath bE your lour blouse blous IFor t I For the marriage riD ring Is not where you do not choose to make It so 10 a sign elm of bondage It does not signify your subjection whether your husband husband hus bu band wears one or not DOt And accordIng accord accord- lug Ing to Us U. original significance you might prefer prE that It remain a one one- I sided tradition The use of ot the ring rinK was Introduced by the Egyptians It It Implied the endowment en upon the bride of ot all aU the husbands husband's possessions and gave to the Egyptian woman the right to Issue commands with the same authority a aher as asher her bar spouse The ring ns liS n a symbol ha has hns at all times had a n dignified and noble con connotation notation B ny fly Its form It signified eternity and Its use In the wedding service Is not without this thought As n a pledge the ring dates back to the ancients when Its delivery delhery signified sign signi fled fied a transfer of authority Ity and carried carried car car- ried tied with It the power or ot the Hie donor And Pharaoh said unto Joseph See See I 1 have set thee over all the land landof landof landof of Egypt And NAnd Pharaoh took off oIT his ring from his h hind and put put It upon Josephs Joseph's hand hond Gen 12 1241 41 42 The ring as a n marriage token today to day lacks none of these sentiments but to the Egyptians Egyptian we owe the custom custom cus tom and ond Its significance With all my worldly goods I thee endow r t- t lel |