The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1894-07-14
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
INTERESTING GOSSIP FOR THE
WOMEN,
Six Matrimonial Stations for Levy
Ing Tribute-Glasses Better Thar
Stlver-The Bright Bride-The Dain-
ty White Gown.

ing Better Than
Stlver-The Bright Bride-The Dain-
ty White Gown.
In these days Of universal wedding
gifts there are q variety of ways in
which those who entered the holy state
of wedlock before that profitable fad
came in can catch up with the mod
ern recipient Of substantial tokens of
good will, says the New York Mail.
Are wedding gifts a real test of the
esteem in which this popular young
couple are held?" Or is the custom
just u neat order of blackmail, so deli
cately managed that one feels almost
brutal in giving it such IN ugly name?
But 1t does press GENEROUSLY Of limited
salaries and slender purses.
Il wish people would stop inviting
ME to weddings" I heard a melan-
choly voice say the other day. Il just
cannot afford to go, and, of course,
every Il suspects why n stays away
If n always does. 1t is simply adver-
Using ones poverty"
I looked incredulous.
"Oh, but it is, don't you know. One
cannot give a wedding present that
costs less than S.. And when n does
that he sinks away from the sight
of his poor little offering with q sense
OF overwhelming disgrace or wishes he
could snatch it up and run away with
1t. Oh, l have suffered, 1 can tell you.
And then, when ones friends will go
on getting married, perhaps at the rate
of five or six a month, one must either
make up his mind to 60 on Sinking
away from his shabby little testimon-
ials or stay away altogether. 1 have
concluded to do the latter"
Which, after all, has no bearing upon
what 1 started out to say about get
ting even with the present fad for we'd
ding gift giving. There are six sta
tons along the great trunk line Of
matrimonial blessedness at which one
can halt and call for belated tribute.
When you have been married five
years you call a halt at your wooden
wedding station and notify your friends
that you are going to observe the ami
versary. The result will be very salts
factory in the accumulation of chairs,
tables, rolling pins, hat racks-anything
wooden, in short, that can convey the
idea of your value in the eyes of your
many invited friends. When you have
been married five more years, round
your first decade by a halt at the
wedding station. Issue invitations as
before and become the happy possess
or, on easy terms, Of a do zen or two
CRATES, tin cups, pattie pans, dippers,
etc. One can be %utilitarian, but scarce
ly aesthetic, on the occasion of a tin
wedding.
The fifteenth anniversary Of ones
marriage affords Il wider range for
the beautiful combined with the USE
full. Then Ole has reached the crystal
wedding station, and if one is really
as popular as one always thinks she is
it Is delightful to contemplate all the
pretty glass things that will flow in a
steady stream to usward in response
to u notification that we have "only
invited a few dear friends to be with
us on the happy OCCASION" etc., etc.
Twenty years after date-date, Of
course, being the marriage day-we are
entitled to have our linen closet replen-
ished by our friends, and in these days
Of artistic need1eWork that woman
must be poor indeed in friends whose
linen wedding will not leave her much
better off in the way Of lovely tray COW
ers, gorgeous bureau scarfs, center
pieces and countless other artistic com
binations of linen, silk floss and skilled
labor.
When one has been married twenty
five years one is entitled to a solid sort
of recognition that can best be convey
ed in silver goblets or tankardS or
baskets, ETC., etc., and while the white
sheen Of the precious metal is threading
the hair about u maturing temples
We are in the happiest possible frame
IF mind to gather about us those who
love us and mark the fifth station on
the great trunk line Of our married
lives.
One goes slower after that, slower
and slower and still more slowly adown
the hill we have climbed together in
fair. weather and in foul. There is an.
other station, which many stop short
of. The golden wedding crowns q
period of fifty years of married life,
and though time will inevitably have
thinned the ranks and frosted the
heads Of those who flung after you the
mystic grains of rice, or who "heartep-
ed" you at the journeys start with
benedictions and godspeeds, there will
always be found tho e of the third and
fourth generations to come with golden
gifts and honeyed speech, wishing you
many happy returns"
Occasionally, in the social history of
the world, a seventh station has been
reached. But rarely, ve.y rarely, does
the weary span of seventy-five years of
union entitle one to the celebration of
a diamond wedding.
. The Bright Bride.
She is a delicious little bride. She
wears pale gray gowns and clean
gloves in the most conventional and un.
mistakable of bridey styles. She calls
her husband Mr.. Blank, and asks him
if he likes coffee. But for all that she
is a very sensible, spirited little woman.
Sunday last my brother called upon
them at their hotel. During the visit
the newly married man, who, by the
way, was q long time a bachelor, rang
the bell to order some wine. My broth
er tells me the little bride, in her gray
and old-rose gow.l, rose from her chair,
walked over to her lord and master,
and in a very gentle but very decided
way said: ,"I object to drinking here,
You will oblige me by not ordering
Wine." :
At this point in the story I became
quite enthusiastic, says the Washington