Show A pair fair of stockings the national publishes the following lo 10 ving letter written by a distinguished literary ar lady ad nira mra W of troy and addressed address e to a learned jud judee judge ae of new haven on the efe eie eve of his hia marriage the letter accompanied the present of a pair of ot blue stockings knit by the fair writers own fingers finders we corn commend mend it to the care fill 61 perusal of all married persons as well as all who contemplate 1 entering into that enviable and holy state ex DER cours COUIN herewith you will receive a present of a pair of woolen stockings knit by my own hands and be assured dear coz that my friendship for you is ii as warm as the material active as the and generous as the donation adt buli bull I 1 bon consider sider this present as peculiarly appropriate prop on the occasion sion slon of your marriage you will remark in the first place that there are individuals two Is united into irto one pair who are to walk side by side guarding against coldness and giving comfort as long as they last the thread of their texture is mixed and so alas is the thread of life in these however the white is is made to predominate expressing my desire and confidence that thus it will be nv with ith the color of your existence no black is used for I 1 believe your lives w will ill lil be wholly free from the black passions of wrath and jealousy the darkest color here is blue which is excellent where we do not make it too blue other ap appropriate ate thoughts rise in my mind in regarding these stockings toc kings the most indifferent dif dlf subjects ahn when viewed by the mind in a suitable frame may furnish instructive inferences As saith the poet the thc iron dogs the fuel ad tong the bellows that have leathern limps lumps the tha firewood fl ashes and the smoke smokey do all to righteousness provo provoke tt but to the tha subject you will perceive that the topi of these thede stockings by I 1 r suppose courts ship filp to be b e represented are sean scan td and by means of df seaming are drawn into a snarl but afterwards comes coines a time when the whole is made pla pia inand nand continues so to the e end and an d I 1 finai final boeing toeing off by this I 1 w wish ish to take ocean occasion on to cengr congratulate at u yourself that you are now through with seeming g ond and have to come to plain reality again as the whole of these comely stocking stockings 1 was wal was not inde made at abonce once but by the addition cf ot one little stitch after another put in ini vilh idi skill and discretion until the whole presents the wr fair and equal piece of wo work rk which you see so life does foes not consist of one blie great action but millions of little ones combined and so may it be with your lives no stitch when duties are to be performed no widening made where bad principles are to be reproved or economy is to be preserved neither r teeming nar nor narrowing where truth and generosity are in question thus every stitch of life made krisht and set in the right place none either too large urge or too small email too loo tight or too booso thus thug you may keep on your smooth and evert everi ven course making existence one fair and cole cam sistena piece until together having passed thi tho h heel you come conne to the very toe and here in the final narrowing dwing gwing riff ciff and dropping the coil of this emblem ficai fical pair of 0 companions 11 and comforting associates nothing appears but white the token of innocence and peace peare of purity and light may you like these stockings stoc bloc kings the final stitch being and the work completed po go together e r from irom ake be place where you were ere formed feime d to a happler happier state of existence present from earth to be heaven beaven ve hoping opine that the ings and ad admonitions in ny y mgt meet a cordial reception I 1 remain in the tr true lle tie leblue le blue friendship seemly yet without geem seem yours from top to toe |