The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-10-18
LORD CHESTERFIELD NYE.
He Gives "AnxiOus Inquir-
er" u Few Valuable
Points.
Hints on Marriage Anniversaries.
New York world,1

Hints on Marriage Anniversaries.
New York word.l
"Anxious Inquirer" of West Pos.
telwaite's Crossing, this State
writes to know authoritatively the
several names and table of distan-
ces between the various wedding
anniversaries known throughout
this country, and also the station.
cry and etiquette of the elite which
is customary. "Anxious Inquirer"
also adds: ave live plainly here in
a sort of hand-to-mouth fashion,
but we are great hands for gayety,
and my husband would just make
you die a-laughing when he gets to
cutting up. Wherever he goes he
is the life of the party. call him
Little Sunbeam, though he is quite
good size, but has to have a new
gore put into his waistcoat every
year. Whether it is a barn raising or
revival care not, you will always
find a group of surprised and de-
lighted admirers hanging about my
Little Sunbeam. We thought of hav-
ing tin wedding next season if we
could get an idea of how to so at it,,
and quietly swap few smiles and
big red apples for milk-pans and a
new tin roof, maybe, for the house.
He is just as popular as he can be
(that is, my husband is), and 1 am
surethe folks would come from as far
back as East Turner and Gangrene
and thus please one who reads every
thing you write and treasures it for
years. / inclose piece Of ribbon
for you to write your autograph on
in indelible ink for our grab-bag.
We have also wrote to Talmage and
Mr.. Sullivan to favor us in the same
way. We asked Ingersoll, the lost
and undone combustle of an irate
God, to write piece of sentiment
on piece of silk for our quilt, and
he wrote on it in indelible ink SOS
to spile the block it was wrote on:
"Why in the name of that i'll
ventilated future state towards
which I almost hope that you are
Fastening do you ask me to write
my autograph on an old hat lin
ing ?"
"The silk has been, I admit, the
lining to Little Sunbeam's hat that
he was married in, but declare I
didn't think man with such priv
ileges as Ingersoll has had would
ever drop on it,"
Marriage anniversaries are ig-
nored by some people, while others
regard them with awe and admira-
tion. 1t is well enough to observe
them, especially if you are "popu-
lar" with the masses, and can get |
a good return for each gob Of cake |
that is ground into your ingram
carpet.
After you and Little Sunbeam
had been successfully welded for
one year you were entitled to
cotton or safety-pin wedding. You
could avail yourself of the anniver-
<ary to barter popcorn for muslin
If you had so decided. 7 do not
know that it pays. His Royal AL
titoodelum the Prince of Wales
told me last summer in burst of
as we strolled out to
the barn after the marriage of
his daughter, that his cotton we'd
ling was really loss to him. Folks
ne said that had means and had
credit at the store for all the sheet
ing and spreads and such stuff that
they had mind to buy, came to
his house on that occasion, deposit
ed in the royal archives a penny
wipe or cheese cloth pordere and
hen gorged themselves on the grub
If the Guelphs till the cows came
home, as he expressed it.
After two years comes the leather
and five years from the
luptialS comes the wooden we'd
ling. a clergyman friend of mine
lad II wooden wedding in all sim
,ereity and honesty of purpose.
Donations had taught him not to
nope for anything more than kind
and some new samples
If hair-oil on his wallpaper but he
owed his congregation, and liked
% show as far as possible that even
he did feel a little more secure
or the future than they did he |,
vas not disposed to refer to it any
more than was necessary. He was !
good man, and he earned his sal
ry just as faithfully as he would if
e had got it.
Well, he had wooden wedding, /
nd his wife reversed the skirt of =
er black dress and put i'm new q
waist and sleeves for the oc- n
aston, and cooked up II whole lot q
( wholesome victuals and bought n
Dme Chinese lanterns with the /.
honey her folks had sent her to
NY other things with, and she
kipped around for days warbling
uch mirth-provoking songs as 81
TODD On the Bridge at Midnight"