The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-18
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

A gift-wedding, Christmas or any
other kind-that shows no thought or
individualityf seems to me almost like
an insult, because it seems to say, 'I
must give something. I don't want to
bother to think about it and so 1 have
just gotten this to cover the law
And what lot of that kind of gift
every wedding calls out. And how
comparatively few of the other kind
that are the result of real thoughtful
ness and real attempts on the part of
the donors to put themselves in the
recipients place and imagine just what
they would like best.
1 visited one of the June brides in
her new home the other day.
In her dining room cabinet she had
thirty-nine pieces of cut glass. Eleven
of them were bOnbon dishes. She also
had several dozen odd pieces of silver
of many of which she confessed she
! did not know the use.
Her walls on the other hand were
almost bare. There had been but four
pictures among her wedding gifts. A
china pitcher pressed into service to
hold the roses I brought her, showed
her lack of vases or flower bowls.
There was but one clock in the house
i and the only lamp was one she mad
just bought.
There are SO many things, both ex-
e.
just fit into inches in the new house
hold, and make the bride bless you
every time she used or looked at them,
that it is simply incomprehensible to
to think of anything except the con-
ventional little things of which there
are sure to be a surplus.
Pictures, for instance, are splendid
gift and one that it is next to impos-
Sible for a bride to have too many of.
But I am not a good judge of pic
lures and 1 don't know just what to
get" protests someone.
Anticipated that protest, having
made it in times past myself. My ar
list of several that are thoroughly safe
and reliable. -.
"The Hanging of the Crane heads
the list, of course. know man who
different brides of his acquaintance,
and he used to say he was afraid to
get married for fear they would retail
ate in kind and he would have to fur
nish his home with the Hanging of
the Crane
The Madonnas are always beautiful
pictures to give. The Sistine Madon-
ma, the Madonna of the Chair, and the
Madonna of the Arbour are particu-
larly beautiful ones. Sir Galahad any
of the Corot or Innes landscapes, Mil
: let's "AngelGs' or 1.-THE Sowers,'' 1.-THE
Death of the First Born a magnifi-
cent animal picture, are all prints that
you would be safe in giving to the most
/ exacting.
Flower vases and bowls are another
beautiful, eminently desirable gift A
( tall crystal vase, a quaint Japanese af-
+ fair, or a bowl of some of the new
potteries would not represent very
/ much expense and would mean a good
! deal of utility and beauty.
Nice linen is always acceptable-a
I fine tablecloth and a dozen napkins to
match was one of the most thoroughly
appreciated gifts that one of the June
brides L know of received, and am
! glad to notice that fine linen and even
expensive blankets and sheets are be-
| ginning to appear on many of the
! brides gift tables
A carving set a sewing tray, a pair
of brass candlesticks, a half dozen
/ frappe glasses, fern dish with a fern
/ in it. a good thermometer-would not
| any one of these and a dozen more lit
| tie niche filters make more accept
able gift and one more personal and
/ individua1ized than a conventional BIT
of silver or cut glass or any similar
, brfc-a-brac?