and along the left side in the form of this 
'hich was appropriated to a deacon. 
borate explanations were offered by medi- 
rs for this difference, which seems merely 
 
 
to be a matter of convenience for the deacon, who 
served at the altar. It was important that he should 
have his right side free, and the heavy fringes would 
have got into his way. One of the ideas with regard 
to the fringe was that the absence from the right side 
symbolizes our freedom from care in the world to 
come; but why, Mr. Macalister asks, was not the. 
bishop to be exempt from care in the future world ? In 
connection with the coronation of English sovereigns 
the dalmatic is still used, as well as representatives 
of other ecclesiastical vestments, but to these we shall 
refer again. 
  It is not at all unlikely that the stole which a 
clergyman wears after the fashion of an untied tie, 
and which hangs from his neck nearly to the ground, 
is really the same thing as our handkerchief, and it is 
certain that it was employed originally as a scarf or 
orarium. In many Roman monuments which are not 
of an ecclesiastical character, scarves are worn over 
the rest of the dress. They pass over the left shoulder, 
diagonally, towards the right side, and are fastened 
under the right arm. Ileyare not to be confounded with 
the two bands of purple (of clavi) which on the tunics 
of senators and other important men ran round the 
sides of the neck openings and down to the lower hem.