WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES
Some husbauils remember the iirst wedding anniveisarv and a few reinarkable meu never furget, but others have to be remiuded not only of the date, but also the year. Wives, on the other liand, rau usually teli you preeisely. Many wive.«, however, are vugue about the charueter of ihe anui versary. 1 Tliev know tlie Iirst is paper, the 25th silver. Ihe 5('t!i gotd. but tliat 's wliere they stop. So here is a little table | that has been > ompiled from the best j avaiiable sotirces that muy jirove ltelpi ful to those v.lio iplan celebratioiis and • are interesteil iu ihe pioper motif; — t First — Paper. Secoud-— (.'oi tou. Third — Leatlier and i-onfei-t ionery. Fourth-- Fruit, llowers. silk. Fii't h — Wooden. Si.xth — S\v e."ts, sttgar. iron. Seveutli-- M'oolleig copper or llu,v\ers. Eiglith — Brnnze. Niutli — Pottery. | Teiitli- Ti ii or aliuiiiniuin. j Klevcntli — -Steel. ,y i Twelfth — Silk or linen. j Thirteenth — I.ace. » I Fourteenl h — Ivory. , . Fifteeuth — Crystal. j Twejitieth— Cliina. T\\ euty - li i't li — Silver. Tliirtietli -uPearl. Tliirty-iit'tli — ( 'orui. Fortieth — liuby. Forly lift h — Sapphire. Fiftiet h— (Johieii. Sixtieth — Diamond.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 August 1946, Page 6
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184WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES Chronicle (Levin), 7 August 1946, Page 6
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