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Show I INVITATIONS TO THE WEDDING Woes of the Man Who Gets One and and What It Costs. A wedding invitation is practically an admission ticket, costing $20, to the church service; reception at the house afterward, extra; cards to the at home, more extra. When a man gets an invitation nowadays he feels as he does when he has been served with a subpoena. He sputters about the idiocy of marriage mar-riage in general, and wonders why in thunder,, or somewhere else where thunder is unknown, those little fools didn't just stand up and get married and get it over with. Then when he calms down he is inveigled into making mak-ing an appointment with his wife at some jeweler's. There he is met with a bewildering array of silver trowels, meat saws and miniature pitchforks, which his learned wife explains to him are fish knives, lettuce servers and berry forks, respectively. Then, as his eyes wander about the store, he spies a golden ball, perforated perfor-ated with fancy holes, and he ventures ven-tures the facetious remark to his wife that they might take time by the forelock fore-lock and send that baby's rattle. Which is met by the chilling rejoinder rejoin-der that "that" is a tea ball, and it is just the very thing. And so the man hands over the necessary and his wife directs where the golden tea ball shall be sent. The feelings of a strong, healthy man being required to attach his card to a dinky tea ball and send it to a young couple as a mark of his good wishes fail either of expression or description. de-scription. Insurance Press. |