San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-19
DALLAS LETTER,
from OR Special CORRESPONDENT.

DALLAS, April 1S.-Three swell
weddings last Wednesday caused
the Golfers OF the florists, hack
owners and livery men and preach
ers, we hope, to be somewhat re.
plenished. The purses OF the
guests were little depleted by the
events. But the latter counts for
nothing. 1t was pleasure, to be
sure, that the donor enjoyed, as
much as the recipients. When
these swell weddings occur and
money is lavished in decorations
that cost very much more than
the parties can afford, it is
time to call "halt." One
thing, an innovation, it was,
and one in the right direction, that
your correspondent noticed not
long since. When Eliza Nichol-
son, of the New Orleans Picsyune
was dead, we noticed that friends
were requested not to bring flowers.
This Of itself, is quite a drain
upon friends. Not long since we
heard a lovely woman speak OF
trying at florists to get a simple
floral Offering to place upon the
corpse of a departed one. The price
was way beyond her means. Flow
ers were so very costly just at that
time. Well, she said, 1 did for
her while she was here.
These will soon wither and
they can do her no good. Your cor
respondent agreed with her, and
advised her to let it alone. 1t is
very consoling to the friends Of the
dead to realize that their loved
ones are held in such esteem, but
these tokens are not always marks
of love. Alta wedding that occurred
here not long since, 1t was re-
marked by party, call the pres
ents were expensive ones; there
was not a single trifiing one in the
whole lot. There were cut glass
pieces by the score, rare and costly
china, cups that cost SIS, brio
a brac that cost ever so
much" One of her hearers re-
marked that in order to make the
gifts appreciated at all by the re-
cipient Of these special ones, they
had to be expensive ones that lit
tie nothings went for nothing in
the BRIDES mind, and they did not
count.
Miss Florence Kingsberry, who
has been in Galveston attending
school, is home on a visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Hardie, of
Birmingham, Ala, have been in
California, where Mr.. Hardie has
an orange grove. They passed
through here and stopped over
few days to visit the family Of Mr..
A. F. Hardie. Miss Alva Brad
ford, who has been here on a visit
for the past month, returned to
Birmingham with them.
Mrs. l.. A. Craig, Of Waco, is wis.,
iting Mrs. Sheppard Groce.
Mrs. j. B. Hereford and Miss
Mamie, have left for New Orleans,
where they will join Mr.. Hereford.
Mrs. II. and Miss Mamie will not
return till after the summer sea-
son is over. They will spend the
heated term in Virginia.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Cronkhite, of
Cripple Creek, Col, are in the city
guests of Mrs. Cronkhite's mother,
Mrs. II. II. Walker.
DR.. Rossel, CT the Terrell insane
asylum has telephored friends here
that Mike Lamy WIS at deaths
door, and could not possibly re-
cover, having had another attach
Of paralysis.
The friends of Judge w. H.
Hoard to the number OF $50 as
sembled at the home of his daugh-
ter, where the judge now resides,
the occasion being the S7th birth
day anniversary Of this old timer,
who is 80 we'll known to the old
settlers. ***