WEDDING GIFTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3, 18 January 1900, Page 24

WEDDING GIFTS.

Whek it becomes necessary to make a bridal gift to those of whose tastes we are uncertain, or to those who are so wealthy that they already have almost everything the heart can wish, who have silver and gold aud jewels, houses and lands, then the task beoomes more involved, and really a good deal more interesting. To such persons a gift that simply shows tho expenditure of money is unnecessary and unwise ; and if you have not a superfluity of money, and they know it, it places you in a foolish light. For a gift to such people the world — that is, our corner of it — has to be ransacked, and something has to be found, curious or beautiful or original and unusual, that only research could hare turned up or an ingenious mind have conceived ; something that does nor, merely represent a bank account, but thought, care, and the qualities that money cannot buy ; something out-of-the-way and undreamed of, and as sure as anything can be sure to be without a duplicate among the gifts. Such a present stands for that for which, in a way, gold has no purchasing power, for the long affection and preparation, and for the effort in which there is a certain touch of the genius that evokes wonders from the hidden and unforeseen.