The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-01-22
A Marriage Letter.

We find the following handsome letter in
Hodcn's t!agazinc. 1t vas written twenty
years ago, by lady Of great literary distinc-
ton, to her cousin Who nov graccs one Of
the most honorable official stations in tho
Empire State, on tho eve OF his marriage,
and accompanied by & pair Of blao mixed
stockings, knit by herself ns present:
DEAR COUSIN Herewith you will re-
ccvo present of a pair Of soolon siock-
ings, knit by my own hands, and be assured,
dear coz, that ny friendship for you is as
warm &C. the material, acsiye ~ :he finger
'7orl:, and generous - tho donation.
But consider Ids prcsen: ~ peculiarly
appropriate on thp occasion of your marriage.
You will remark, in the GrS: place, that tLero
are two individuals united in one pair, who
are to wall, side by SIDE guarding against
co!inoas, and giving cem.ort rs long as they
last. The thread &C iheir texture is mixed,
and so, alas, il tie thread Of lfc IN these,
however, the white predominaios, expressing
nay des,re AMI confidence that thus it will be
with the color oi your existence. No black
is used, for believe your lives will bo ,hol-
/ y free from the blacl, passions of wrath and
Jealousy. The darkest color here is bluc.
which is excellent, vhoro 10 do not make it
too blue.
Other appropriate thoughts rise 10 my
mind in regarding these stockings. The
most Indifferent subjects, when viewed by
the mind in suitable frame, may furnish in
5tructivo infercnces, as saith the paet:
The iron dogs, tho fuel and tongs,
The bellows that have leathcrn lungs,
4lc iirc-wood, ashes, and Tia smoke,
Do all to sishieousness provoke"
But to the s-ajoct. Ior ail pore civ,
that tie tops of these stocking, Coy T. hich
suppose ccartship 10 60 rc.re5cnied) ar,
scanned, aud by means Of scanning are Lr.vi
into 4 snarl, hut afterwards comes .in,
'Yhen the whol, ia mado plain, and continue
SO to the end aud anal toeing of. BY !Ais,
wish to :akO occusioa to congratulate your
self, that yol are now through v;.h scanning
and have come to plain reality. Again, a
the whole OF these co.nely stockings vss no
made at once, but hy the sdditica of eve lit
tic stitch after another, put in with skill an,
discretion, until the whole presents the i.i
equal piece of work which you see; 80, If
does NOT consist OF one great action, but nil
lions of little ones combined; aud so may
be with you. No stitch dropped whon du
ties are to he pcrformsd-no widening mad
where bad principles are to be reproycd, o
economy is 10 be preserved nci'her seamin
nor narrowing whore truth aud sonerosii
are in question. Thus every stitch Of If
made right and &c; in he placs-none eilhe
t too large or too small, too iish. or too loose
thus may you keep on your smooth AM eve
course, making existence ono fiir and con
sisicu; piece-untiI, together. having passe
the heel. you come to tao very to- Of IF,
and hero, in tic final narrowing OF, an
, dropping the coil Of this emblamaiicaI pai
Of companions and comforting associate
nothing appears bal white, the iosen c: in
noccncc AID pcccc. = purity y i.,..- Ia
you, Ike these stockings, the Gnal stitch be
ing dropped, aud ;Ao work being complete,
so together from the place where you wer
formed, to hao?io. slate or existence,
present from earl to Lsavcn. Hoping tia
these stockings and adnonitions LAY r.eet
cordial reception, rsmail in :ho true blu
friendship, Seemingly, yet w..Lors secmin:
Yours, from top 10 ico, ----.