Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1883 — Please Yourself First. [ARTICLE]

Please Yourself First.

A certain married pair were discussing the propriety of giving a wedding present, and, as might happen in the best regulated families, failed to agree as to the object and price. The lady desired to send a cut-glass pitcher; the gentleman scoffed at this idea, declaring that nothing but silver would satisfy his taste. After a very animated session, which finally terminated in the usual way—tears and cigars—Madame said she should buy her own present, , and Monsieur might suit himself. The next morning, however, repentance seized both parties, though still sulking with each other, and the gentleman, hoping to “make up” with his better half, selected, on his way down town, a gorgeous cut-glass jug, writing his wife’s best wishes on a card and dispatching it to the expectant bride. An hour later out sailed the wife, only intent on buying what should please her spouse, and thus heap coals of fire on his recalcitrant head. The result -was a costly gold-lined silver salad

bowl, accompanied by the best wishes, etc., written on the gentleman’s visitingpasteboard, which was duly forwarded to the same address as that of the cutglass jug. At night nothing was said of this joint maneuver, aach one wishing to surprise the other by showing the note of acknowledgment when it should arrive. It came in due course of time, but it came not alone! The postman brought two notes, which so bewildered and mystified the receivers that they indulged in another debate that ended even more the first. The lady declares she will never again make concessions, or wedding presents for that matter, and the gentleman takes refuge in saying, “It was just like a woman!” Moral: Don’t try to please anybody but yourself.— Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.