Show FEER I PRESENTS VOGUE Custom of Indiscriminate Be Bestowing Best stowing st of Gifts to Bridal Unfashionable LONDON IS RESPONSIBLE Movement Token Up 11 In 4 tUI to it II Clow Slay 31 itts I Tilt TIll ol e giving wedding pr p peta pies eta cuts te hn muck l ices gg In amar Cr l than It R Md to be and ad London Londot to Is responsible for the chant chan Not Hot tony Io myo ao JO an bride to b be bc the taught of ot a noble noole holier hOIl Pent en at out with tk the to tet hr her wed wedding Hug ding 11 a request that no wedding pre sects Mata should be liven given n t to La Lathat that l 1 brides socially fool II high u ut up had v verbally rby expressed n ra d themselves Ir In Inthe the aam in way nut but M es It to Ii not hOt po u albl to reach rach cb in this thU t way th the J ii of persona asked ked to it o big weddIn th their ir wire were not known cx x to th tile the few tow Intimate intimates from a ft gift would probably b ha received Feed n no na matter mtr what the brides bride feeling 0 on n th the tho au t might bi b bLike Like ever ver every other nil cull ru of court coure this I rule will have ha exceptIons exception Juat Jut how ho many my exception th the bride who sent eni lit out the printed requests ha has t la is riot not known knon It U La known that tbt front from then on fashionable English brides have hav net eel t their facea against Int receiving wedding pre pr onti nt from any n but rela reIn relative tive end aa that in London the vogue Pt d undine lending wedding presents indIa Indis Indiscriminately In III dying tact fact f Ak Ack a Now York Yolk silversmith or a dealt dealer I In utIa ut giase Ia If he hI liia any ny falling off nr In the demand for wedding pres pr pren antS ent en and he will aay any No at it t once What het I la Is more In ore he will refuse to enter entertain lain tain en I o harassing a thought But ut when mother mote and nd daughters who are Identified with Ith the th very weal wealthy wealthy thy tb clam d are approached d on tho the same aam subject they the tell jutte another story atory tor The other day dy hen ben a young and very charming widow Identified with the Newport colony end and nd the Long LonK alan I n set net t atin l her approach approaching ing In marriage she ahe hl alao announced that cbs khe want any ny wedding wadding presents That ahe he will go ao so far aa as II to hae haea a notice to that effect Included In the wedding Invitation I is not likely A Anodal octal nodal leader In th the same me set at aa IA she think It quite unlikely that American will go so o 0 tar far a 11 as that in any an oa CIl oaIn CIlIn caso In the day when hn numerically Nov Jw York society va wo below rather than above the ton mark the wed I UK pres present pr I ent nl problem was waa 11 easy enough now hOW OREW GREW Wedding were nero comparatively rom II then and the guests ruest t were wre for the tb Ih rn part well acquainted with urn one on ant and with the bride and nd There Th was wu considerable sentiment at al attached attached to tu wedding gifts wr er not itt anything any thine like ao Rn ro in Att the th thy afterward afterwards came to be gIfts gift were thin then Included In the array arn y mil atil 11 1 wire valued a aa highly aa as It 1 p parl W trl 11 ne now DO But i nay ally at St the Ute 44 00 mark or anywhere near neRr It I Nc New aeta set et and clique cliques were formed as a fortunes fortune and finer houses Im and nd general Intimacy was waa impossIble In It its private entertainment this and that thaI clique kept pretty much Inu h a athey Sc they tb do now nw but when It came to a 0 wedding there were reasons why wh It wa was Jut just aa as well why It U wa was wall necessary n r In fact to go Co outside out aide of nf ones onea one own particular l ular circle In III tending out Invitation It was waa one way wa ot of extending a courtesy courteny of ot showing an Mn attention to persons peron not exactly Intimate Ie And ud the bigger the Ih the larger the she the number of presents was wa sure aure to be SPIRIT Or Ol GAMBLING I 1 ives knew a young girl yet but who liked wedding a s leader lender admitted Not hot ot tor Lor their value but bul for the excitement of Retting getting J them the th or of the arrival of or this and aM the other thing It U is the same Paine me Idea exactly aa a playing for tor prIzes prize or taking Inking part In a 1 lottery bargain barl ln ale or In doing anything else elile which to 10 give something for flout noth nothing lug ing III Americans American are r gret reat Rambler a IU as everybody who know them thain knows know Had not Dot society grown so eo fut fait no change probably would have taken place In the Ue of bridal Rift gifts Aa As A It was waa w the Ih custom of giving wedding presents prent reached almost a frenay Per Ier Person son aon known knon scarcely more than by byname byname byname name to either family and anil an who were ware invited only to church sent valuable guts gift FrIend invited to the house felt that they th could give a pies pres present cut ent they really ought to itay tay away sway If some authorities are correct corre half balf R P doen dosen years year ra ago jo 0 that guest at ata ata ata a house houa aou wedding who did not a gift aUt wai deemed very peculiar to say aay M the leapt At that time tim brides who would have bv been a quit quits shocked hocked If ac ar accused 1 of ot bad taste tall exhibited two or nr three hundred wedding wadding gUts gifts IU with the Ule cards card of th lbs donors in I plain view and there was w speculation among bride brIdes to be I as all to which would get et the moat mout numerous and the most valuable pre pres presents SET lET ET IN INH INI It H was waa w Jut Just about then it seems IHm that thata a reaction began an to te set Mt in IlL Women ut ot I good icod tut tast w we were r beginning to 10 squirm I M 4 on one Olie of them pre it t be boo booI bein bein I in placed under ur obligations to per peron on with whom they were not lull Inti Intimate mate of having valued feel nt cit cita nta ata a disadvantage because not able bl to give e ethe th the bride aa as a much as th t tha next one oneve gave ve aDd and of 01 having hating their thair daughter Ib begin negin n married Ufe tUe mortgaged to sonic some to extend saLeM similar to lo several hundred persona whether she ahe could afford It or jr r not ohan ohn change e enaa baa become batom more marked e year ear earIn ini In It Ii W was soon th tb the exception for wedding waddIng presents prent to 10 b be shown hown to any but a favored few fw Neat Next when gifts were war displayed to th the chosen ehon on ones one card w veI removed beforehand It began becan tn ti I tib b l he e known that one on might accept in en Invitation to a house houm ceremony emon or II to tn thu reception r nt III Ih hr u after fter a achurch church ani and nut send sand a pres pree p mt nt to 0 the bride without a feeling hop hops Tho Those quick to die dla aft ern tilt the lii trend d th the signs of n the Ibe lb U ilIac sei that it was can oon 01 bett i form torm not to 0 send Nt a gift It unless the tI Iii Mt nIr was waa counted cl th the clone clu t ios f C 11 I of If 1 th the family Need Meed Needa 1 I a t I say sav n II 4 signs igns have hv been and aad 1 J will 0 IU h Io t disregarded That is I why wit to Iu I IU iii Ih II same cams ma authority calic the ili Ih wedding present p t habit I Is IsI I 11 I Hi t l ui i Ith extinction so to far fr u lIa ci I ih ii h i t u i I I r ru rc tf f are i m ll give alv M as many man and nd a aH 5 H IA I V t 1 is 4 they th please plats pI h lie Ii Il 11 10 I 1 I wron l friends 4 hut t II IK I I 4 0 1 I or the h bridegroom hun hit rown roe ui II up II with mav maw send th the bride it ituk oki tk uk u if r I hey Ihy want tu li und aud that Is I nil 1111 10 UK HU auti I United 1111 IN is a Very vrr In IntI n tI ii I frind of f Hit II Ii Ii toll M I or I t the he 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