Show I 1 I 1 gift I 1 I 1 hartford blimes A brido was reported r a while ago as saying that she had received over wedding presen tso I 1 and not a single piece of silver nor a single lamp in uto iler case was lamentable but chii wedding i I 1 business has been greatly der there c all acl no bellef from it A wedding has cometo be donation visit such as the methodist people make to a pastor to piece out his salar tile true spirit of gift making is 0 t eight of this must necessarily be the cao ca o several hundred guests make presents merely because it is the fashion and because they would be thought I 1 f they failed to follow it e 1 follow ato but the real motive if it could be analyzed would be found to to a selfish and cowardly one this is about the case when analyzed 1 I cant alfrord to make this present so but neither can I 1 afford not to do it I 1 sho u id be dinean instead I 1 of having tile supreme of being thought td be as liberal as mr or I 1 mrs blank this gift making Is a terrible infliction but one cant ignore it M I 1 ere is no heart in such a gift and no sense where one has a cir cle of sederal hundred friends tha qu e expense for the carrying u t of this becomes seno 1 s for everyone choso whoso income is limi te d A reform could be inaugurated if every on 0 about to W married would send out with the thid word I 1 I 1 1 I 1 i I 1 1 |