SENSIBLE WEDDING PRESENTS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3184, 12 September 1881, Page 4

SENSIBLE WEDDING PRESENTS.

A wise woman once remarked she gave lady friends all, or a portion, of the following named wedding presents : —Dust-cloths nicely made, ot different qualities, for various articles of furniture ; brush and whisk brooms, several sizes, in well-fitting casi's ; a dish-cloth that will outlast twelve ordinary ones ; holders in profusion ; the latest invention in floor-cloths ; newest in kitchen conveniences ; set of table mats ; dining-table brush and pan ; and lastly a little velvet coffee-mat in the form of a slipper run down at the heel, worked with the words : —'Do not get slipshod.' She was far-seeing when she gave this. How could the young housekeeper daily place and replace the little slipper without noticing the motto and profiting by it? If her back stairway became cluttered, her sleeping room the least untidy, her pantry or cellar in need of airing, any small home matter wLich might run on into positive neglect or tincleanness, the little mat with its neatly worked, letters is a positive reminder and preventer. By-and-bye it bpcomes worn, the velvet is threadbare and letters barely seen, but its mission is accomplished, for by this time, habits of uniform carefulness and neatness are fixed, and there is little danger of the housekeeper running down at the heel.

Such gifts as have been named are indeed trifling in expense, but they may be of great service and save one untold annoyances. Venetian glasses and gold-lined goblets are valuable, French clocks and bronze cardreceivers fashionable, but the bride in high life or low, who receives these humbler presents and profits by the lessons they teach, may well dispense with those more costly.