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CHARLES LORING, American author and philanthropist, born in Litchfield, Conn., Jan. 19, 1826.
He graduated at Yale in 1846, and studied theology, but held no pastorate. He devoted himself to philanthropy in New York, and lectured, wrote, and worked to enlist aid for the children of the poor.
His books include "Hungary in 1851" (New York 1852); "Home Life in Germany" (1853); "The Norse Folk" (1857); "The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them" (1872, 3d ed., 1880); "Gesta Christi" (1883); "To the Unknown God" (1889). He died in 1890. a BRACELET, kind of ornament usually worn on the wrist, the use of which extends from the most ancient times down to the present, and belongs to all countries, civilized as well as uncivilized. Bracelets were in use in Egypt and among the Medes and Persians at a very remote period, and in the Bible bracelet is frequently mentioned as an ornament in use among the Jews, both men and women. Among the ancient Greeks bracelets seem to have been worn only by the women. Among the Romans it was a frequent practice for a general to bestow bracelets on soldiers who had distinguished themselves by their valor.
Roman ladies of high rank frequently wore them both on the wrist and on the upper arm. Among the ancient heathen Germanic tribes they formed the chief and almost only ornament.