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ssrq5?3pr ?- ff'JWSJSwiptWfJ." 9l ""V SHS!?' THE CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE THE WEDDING PRESENTS Chapter XXIV. Oh, dear! I Tyould give anything if I had not given in to Dick's mother and had a church wedding and a re ception at her house. My being with out immediate relatives and having no settled home would have made a quiet wedding in much better taste. And now, as an aftermath, Dick's sister wishing to be of use to me took all the cards off my silver and sent the big pieces to the safety de posit Many of these cards say, "With all good wishes," and I don't know whether the giver made me a present of a silver pickle fork or Sheffield meat platter. I don't know what I am going to do when I write my letters of thanks. I began them last night and Dick raised "a rumpus right," because Mollie did not have sense enough to put on the cards description of the gift. Mollie cried and said, "I just wish you had never got married," and Dick's mother said, "If I had known we were going to have so much trou ble with this wedding I would never have consented to having this recep tion and presents here." I know I looked rather blank, and Dick came to the rescue, by saying, 'I like that! "It was you, mother .dear, who in sisted upon making "those arranger ments. Madge did not want any hul lobaloo at all, and it was asinine in Molly to take those .cards off the presents without looking to see if they had. anything on .them that would tell us who sent what." "Mother" got tip and went out of the roonij looking very much hurt. I was for going after her, but Dick said: "No, if you do, she will talk a lot. Let's get at the work of writing the necessary gratitude as quickly as we can." "Great Scott, Madge, do you mean, to tell me vou like this?" he asked, as he held at arms' length an ex quisitely colored etching. "Yes, dear," I answered. "That beautiful old English print is one of the gifts for which I am most thank ful." "Well, I am glad you like it. It's not what I would choose." After looking over Dick's mother's house I am not so surprised at his lack of taste. Everything looks as though, it cost money, but everything looks as inartistic as possible. The whole house is cluttered up with bric-a-L ic, gilt chairs and ugly oil paintings. I don't know what I will do when I come to furnish my "house. I will never be happy if I have to use the things which I know Dick's mother intends to buy for me. "I am gladthat some of oiir friends did not mark the silver they sent us," I said. "We can take back four dozen of these salad forks and buy soup and teaspoons." t "Funny how no one sent us any teaspoons," said Dick. "And they sent us five dozen salad forks," I explained. "You know ev erybody ate chicken salad at all our parties. Perhaps that gave them the idea." "I nevep-want any more chicken salad as long as I live," said Dick. Then and there I registered a vow to make variety the spice of my table "when I went to keeping house. We managed to write about 75 let ters pS thanks last night and I think I, can finish the remainder myself. I am going to take back three of my cutglass "bowls; four of my cut glass water caraffs, four coffee per colators and sundry t)ther things which I find came from a large de partment store and exchange them for a rug. Dick says some one will sure be an gry about it, but we need rugs more .jflA - tHixz. . ;-.