The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1851-09-12
MISCELLAN EOUS.
Marriage and Stockings.

The following letter is said to have accom-
panied the present of pair of stockings to
young bride. 1t is quite apropos:
Dear CouSn.-Herewitg you will receive a
present. Of pair of wooden stockings, knit by
my own hands; and be assured, dear coz. that
my friendship for you is as warm as the materi.
al, active as the finger work, and generous as
the donation. Butt consider this present as
peculiarly appropriate on the occasion of your
ge. You will remarks the first place
th2@Shere are two individuals united in one
pair, who are to walk side hY side, guarding
against coldness and giving ass ri as long as
they last, The thread Of their faxtnre is mixed
and so alast is the thread of life. In these
however, the white predominates, expressing
my desire and confidence that thus it will be
with the color of your existence. No black is
used; for ! believe your lives will be wholly
free from the black passions of wrath and zeal.
ousy. The darkest color here is blue, which is
excellent, where we do not make il too blue
Other appropriate thoughts rise to my mind
respecting these stockings. The most indif-
tment subjects when viewed by the mind in a
Suitable frame, may furnish instructive infereh.
ces, as saith the poet:
The iron dogs. the fuel and the tones
The bellows that have leathern lungs;
The fre8ood ashes and the smoke,
Do all to Righteousness proyoke.n
But TO the subject. You will perceive that
The tons Of these stockings (by which suppose
c0HftEipTo be represented) are scanned, and
by means of scanning are drawn into snarl,
but afterwards comes time when the whole is
made plain, and continues so to the end and
final toeing off. BY this, / wish you to take
occasion to congratulate yourself that you are
now through the scanning, and have come to
plain reality.
Again, as the whole of these comely stock
lngs were not made at once but by the addition
OF one little stitch after another, put in with
skill and discretion, until the whole presents
the fair, equal piece of work which you see,
so life does not consist of one great action, but
millions oflttle ones combined and so NAV it
be with you. No stitch dropped where duties
are TO be performed-=no widening made where
bad principles are to be reproved or economy
is to be preserved, or neither scanning nor mar.
rowing where truth and generosity are in
question.
Thus every stitch of life made RIGHT and set
in the right place--none either too laroe. or
too small, too tight or too loose; thus Won
may keep on your smooth and even course
making existence one fair and CONSTANT niece
until together, having past the heel you come
TO the very toe of life, and here in the final
narrowing of, and dropping the coil of this
embematical pair ofcompanions and comfort
ing associates, nothing appears but white, the
token OF innocence and peace, of purity and
light; and may you, like the stockings, the final
stitch being dropped, and the work being CON-
pleted, go together from the place where vou
were formed to happier state of existence. a
present from earth to heaven. Hoping chat
these stockings and admonitions may meet a
cordial reception, remain in true blue friend
ship seemly, without seeming, yours, from top
TO toe.