Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — Wedding Gifts. [ARTICLE]

Wedding Gifts.

Harper’s Bazar, in a judicious editorial on wedding gifts, has this to say concerning a custom which happily is no longer countenanced by the best society: “That one may have as many recurring wedding festivals as there are wedding days recurring, no one will deny- But that one may turn .any of these festivals into an excuse for begging and receiving, an excuse for imposing another domestic tax hpon friends and acquaintances, no one now will assert, whatever may have been polite usage a generation since.... In, deed, whenever one thinks of the great sacredness and tenderness of the marriage relation, it seems difficult to see how any’can be willing to vulgarize and profane it by such a custom as the asking and receiving of gifts, and we would expect its anniversaries to be celebrated not in rude merrymaking, but with a sort of sweet solemnity making such things impossible,”