The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-26
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cup" is being revived at present in al
enthusiastic manner which gladdens ths
heart of the woman who is fond O
those by-gone fancies, which were full
of simple dignity and show.
This sweet old tankard is now bein:
produced in great quantities and man,
qualities, so that everyone, from tn,
millionaire down in the moneyed scale
may find one according to his pocket
book.
They come in silver and gold ant
cheaper materials. They are embsazonet
with valuable jewels or they are entire
~ without decoration. They are hidde
away in the bride chests. Or they are
valuable only by sentiment and associa-
tion and are placed on some shelf within
sideboard doors.
Every June bride this year must hays
one even if. she be obliged to s~acrifce
some other luxury to procure it. Other
wise her first housekeeping will prove
all wrong and incomplete.
The cup will be used at christenings,
golden weddings, Christmas. Thanks
giving and New Years family reunions
and all other functions when members
of the immediate family with kith and
kin shall come together to celebrate.
The method is this: All present in the
room rise to their feet. and the cup is
passed around the circle. The form OF
q circle should be observed.
Each one takes a sip of the wine and
then passes the vessel. IT is a pretty
custom for the woman highest in the
household to press a kiss upon the rim
of the cup before passing it. If there be
a bride. she it is who imparts the kiss.
There will be certain women who will
want to know whether the wine will
be good for her little ones. For, of
course, the oungest and the oldest, the
great-grandfather and his smallest des-
cendant must be present.
1t has been entirely without any such
results at all the festivals which I have
had the pleasure to attend. 1t is in
reality little more than the ouching of
ones lips to the cup. But if any mother
have conscientious scruples let her fill
the loving cup with unfermented grape
juice, which is DELICIOUS and as mild as
new milk.
Let your children see q family reunion
with a loving cup from time to time.
It impresses them with the sanctity of
kinship ties. and imparts a little of that
spirit of reverence which the Europeans
accuse US of ~lacking-and, which, l fear,
we do just a bit-think you not?
It is entirely the fashion for the bride
to pass a loving cup to her bridal party
at the supper table. The minister should
fill it, and, as he presents it to the bride,
should bless the young couple.
The bride drinks standing, passes 1t
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drink and passes it to each of his men
1t IS a pretty sight, and just one of
those small touches of sentiment which
it win do the young generation of
Americans well to pick up.
At a recent fashionable wedding in
the South. as the bride stood to receive
the loving cup from the old pastor who
had welded her, she was in a most
unique background.
The sable retainers up to half a hun-
bred had gathered on the broad back
piazza to see young missus'' at the
table. The warm May evening had com
PEELED the back windows to be opened
wide onto the piazza. There close to
the young bride stood the colored adj
ynIrers, FIVE rows deep. Every one had
a gourd or a tin cup with a sip of "the
wire.,' AS the bride drank every one of
the .darkies' drank with a murmured
God bless her. "Ain't she pretty and
the like.
The Northerners. present were simply
delighted and couldn't keep their eyes
from wandering back of the bride to
that picturesque, human turbaned back
ground.
Writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe at
"Eighty-fve,' Richard Burton, in June
Ladies Home Journal" gives a delight
full picture of the author Of tUncle Toms
Cabin" of her home in Hartford, and of
her daily life. For some years now," he
says. ttentirely withdrawn from society,
Mrs. Stowe is much afoot in open air. her
strength, for one of her years, being re-
markable. In the Summer time the slight,
bent figure, witt it's white hair browning
the dark, wrinkled face is q familiar sight
to the neighborhood, as she wanders under
the boughs, gathering consolation from
sun and shade and wind, or strays down
the steep bank to where a little silvery
stream winds it's tortuous length behind
the Clemens and Warner grounds. On
such walks a trusty attendant is always
10y 1er sue II Is likely lldl MTS- olOWt )
fondness for exercise and outdoor life has
done much to sustain her bodily vigor to
the present age. But she comes of a
sturdy stock. = Mrs. Stoves work.
ing lays nave long been over. None of
her conspicuous literary productions is as
ISOLATED with her present residence, and
her condition requires that she be care
fully guarded in every way by her family
from the intrusion of strangers. Yet as
she walks the street, always followed by
a fat little pug, who is an autocrat in the
house Git may be remarked that the Stowe
family is devoted to Dogs, one often sees
I~on-hunting visitors eager to catch a
glirnse of the most noted literary woman
of the land. Requests at the door for a
sight of the mistress are not infrequent,
Will letters ~petitioning for autographs
are. of course. legion. Occasionally still
the latter favor is granted, or the author
ess pens a bit of a note in acknowledge
ment of some courtesy. Her modest
way of living implies the fact that the re-
wards of distinguished success in literature
are other than monetary. Such success
is not to be measured by tangible things.
The aims and ambitions of those who
seek to do work with the pen worthy to
live, and hopeful to their fellowmen, are
not those of mere practical pursuits.
Hew can be estimated in dollars the deep
moral glow of satisfaction experienced by