Show ABOUT WEDDING PRESENTS The girl who Jk likes s to talk shook hit her her r head solemnly at the tito friend who wanted wante wantEd d to know whether she should hould buy a ct cut cutglass t glass la 8 bowl for tOI a wedding pr present 8 nt or send set seta senda id a n set of oC Youre like like- nil all al th tIme the rest saM said the girl gim 1 You Yon haven't ha the remotest notion of ti the therl Id crisis rl l looming over o you ou Its It's Is I's noton time the test of friendship this selecting a n wedding present pres pie 5 ent ent You Yon oti ma may have o ha he been can n bosom chun churns chums is with wih the lie bride brile trout from the mud pie sta stage stag e. e but right now either lher you coment th that itt friendship or else ele you OU make two two dead deadly b enemies 8 Sometimes went on th the girl wi who whom 10 m likes es to talk it I seems ns though all al nh the I who hove have It 1 In for Cor you ou for some corn thing thIng Just treasure up their little grud grudge e till thi tl you ou ou get ct married and then with wih a 0 gurgle 01 or of triumph take tak last tak venire revenge r by bv uy send send- gurgle 01 or of triumph take tak last tak venire revenge r by bv uy send send- log ing Ins you rou a wedding present that lust they th know will wi set your Oll teeth on out e edge and send cold chills chis down lown your spinal gp column every time jou OU look book at it I. I She SIC In is 11 a a. luck lucky bride whose new home Is 11 a thousand miles mies away where there h her l. l oh old friends cant can't drop In unexpectedly and ani prowl owl around to see seo that she haM their presents properly displayed ll In the best light You cant can't hurt their feelings you ou thel know so If I k keep tp watch over 1 0 the treatment accorded their pr presents all nIh ali your life you OU have ha e to writhe under the affliction af aC- af- af I of o something you ou loathe and would run rime away from if J you ou met It on a dark trl night t Louise moved mo to California when she married related the girl gil who Ik likes hikes to talk and amid do you ou know now what that smart girl Irl did dial ll When I visited her she took tool me inc one cite day dav to a n r remote mote corner corer of or the housan house hous an and unlocked a n closet door dool and tUr turned d on oil the light I focused a a eye Cp on out her liar alter after one glance Iane and said I didn't know sh she wits was starting a chamber of ot horrors and ask asked sl what the answer was Louise said she and Harry Barn decided tho they had on only I one Jr lIfe to I live hive and even n at nt that the they Pt probably babl would hav hat un unavoidable un- un avoidable a troubles so o there ta was no use In deliberately h acquiring other troubles The They took every It C last iatt wedding present the they hated and stored It I In the closet and were slow slowly giving them awa away on Christmas Christas Christ Christ- mas as and amid oth other l' l occasions to whose I characters the they thou thought ht needed chasten chas In ing Louise generally puts the lie prizes she site wins Ins at card parties In n there thel too be he- he cause either lh r thc they never ne match her hr house or else they arc aro champagne glasses glasses and la and th they cant can't afford much of ot anything but gln ginger eT aleI aleI ale I know knon of or one bride who got only one jot s set t of ur salad forks Corks so gO site she thankfully thankful overlooked o th the fact that they a design calculated to make on a ma milan milan- for tor life But when hen a dilatory cousin sont sent her hel ome sonic perfectly beautiful salad forks Corks and she sImultaneously got Jol a n wedding invitation herself she took the hideous forks to a Jeweler r and requested that he he obliterate her bier Initial with wih which the thai had been marked and amI put on I that of oC the bridat on whom she was going to Inflict thorn them Oh Oil yes s. 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I This will wi b bo the thi third time tiBia weve we've wre changed th the Initial on these snob same lork forks Now 0 my mother got Sf some me beautiful presents tl when Rh she ito was ms married a years marrIed years T ago I think people had kind hearts mind and really loved th their h friends friends still s she she he too had her hEr trials Among Arnon them w was a dessort dessert dESsort des des- dES dES- sort sert set which still sti lingers among the family treasures It I Is a wondrous timing thing of or bright green gla glass mother says sas I Is Cl cut t. t but bu l I am nm positive t it I was run Iun u through h a hydraulic press ss by hy an t ite tice who afterward w want nt insane The Tho tO big hiI utah dish is Js mounted in a n sliver silver fil t- t ill ill- agree asre arrangement which I Is carried on up till UJ above Iho a It like nn 11 Eiffel tower d precariously on Oil this tower Is n a barge laige sil sn silver vcr ver bIrd with wih a wooden expression lon a tall tail tal like Iko that of oC n a t flying ln machine There are aro n a dozen smaller glass dishes replicas In Iii miniature of ot the big on one the ef af feet of ot the whole collection when brought on Ott the table tahl is to appall the tho brightest most intrepid spirit and para pam Iz an any flow 00 of wit wi that lint ma may be hA nt there pala- pala Sti Still that tha t dessert l sot jt t is iti bewitched for or I Ive I've In bribed every yel maid we over ever o er hail to m It I accidentally aumai and the they autey ak everything f else on 01 the premises es while that escapes I believe c If I I took a hatchet to that hip big glass dish It I would crumble tho the hatchet as aR thou though h It wen tissue paper pa Jail Jail- per tr au ami remain standing grimly triumphantly triumph triumph- ant antly anthy on omi time the pantry shelf h f. f the horror of oC 0 my life 0 Sometimes I think it I will wi Ia- Ia le- le Itself on 01 me rite for tor m my bitter blUer dislike Im I'm afraid mother will wI give It to 1 mite me Stil SIns Shu or often n says sal's I need ned n a touch of or trouble to round rotund out Ott m my character If I she does docs Ill I'll blow it up with dynamite IJ It I really Is best to elope commented comment td t- t ed dd d tim the frend friend That doesn't do a ii bit of ot good gloomily replied thin the girl who ho likes lees to talk TIme y send Rend em to you ou at afterward |