Year: 1871

must have great many articles for hel
marriage, and make fashionable show
OF dress during the honeymoon and q,
they lived in only town, size wrote hel
father . note, requesting him to furnish
her a considerable amount to buy hel
outdt, and stated In 1t that she expected
she would have to send to the city tc
get al she needed, whereupon tho old
man made the following reply:


Dear Daughfer,-As you are my only
daughter, may call you dearest. truly
for I love you very much. have
considered your note, and this is my
reply:


am very sorry to find you possessing
= weakness Of most Of your sex, viz
that you think you must surely have q
large outfit for ysur wedding and honey.
moon.


When / married your mother, she
had two calico dresses, and other things
to fit, and she thought herself well off
with them, and I really thought her, as
I took her in her calico dress, the pret-
tiest, sweetest girl in the land, and have
never thought otherwise. She has
made me dear, precious wife, and has
been to me helpmeet indeed. Now,
my dear child. l will not refuse you
what you ask, but my observation in
life has convinced me that those girls
who spend a heap Of money to provide
their outfits for marriage are generally
sure to spend heaps Of it afterwards, and
that often they keep their poor hus-
bands noses to the grindstone of mis-.
fortune and toll all their lives.


A great many fine things for your
wedding and its after incidents will
make you no sweeter or prettier to your
husband, and make you a great deal
dearer to his pocket.


If the man Of your choice really loves
you, as no doubt he does, it is not for
what you have on, but for the qualities
Of your person, head and heart, and as
he is man Of sense, have no doubt
lie will think more Of you when he finds
that you have not any great prepara-
tions for marriage. There are many
gentlemen in this country now worth
their millions, whose wives, when they
were married had no more than your
mother. by this do not mean that
you should have no more; but your
mother tells me that you now have five
neat everyday dresses and four Sunday
ones, aud really they are larger, finer
and better than many millions of your
sex are able to obtain.


make these suggestions for your con-
sideration, but leave you to follow them
or not, as your judgment may dictate ;
and to show you that this is fact,
enclose you draft Of thousand dollars
on my cashier, which you can use at
your pleasure.


Aifectionately yours.


JOHN BRowS.


Kate did not long hesitate as to her
course of action. Her mother gave her
few dollars of her pocket money, aud
she bought only simple plain white
uiSsos Ahu oPpSAAeu III ~ ~ Inc AltaE /,
with natural flowers and her own love-
liness for adornment.


She drew the amount Of the draft in
gold, aud one month to day after her
marriage, handed the amount to her
husband, ard accompanied the gift with
these words:


"Deorest,-I applied to my father for
money to purchase what supposed l
needed for my marriage, and he wrote
me this letter, and inclosed in it the
draft upon which I drew this thousand
gold dollars, which I now present to
you as the money saved by victory
over q very foolish fashion. Have done
wisely ?"~


"You have, my blessed wife, and are
a thousand times dearer to me by your
better judgement"


1t is needless to add, that the husband
Of Kate is now worth many thousau ds
of dollars, and in a delightful old age
they often tell their friends and children
Of the thousand dollars AZ the fountain
of il all