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A Father's Advice to a Bride.

Said a young husband whose business speculations were unsuccessful. "My wife's silver tea set, the bridal gift of a rich uncle, doomed me to financial ruin. It involved a hundred unexpected expenses which in time to meet, made me the bankrupt I am." His experience is the experience of many others, who, less wise, do not know what is the goblin of the house, working its destruction. A sagacious father of great wealth exceedingly mortified his daughter by ordering it to be printed on her wedding cards. "No presents except those adapted to an income of $1,000."

Said he, "You must not expect to begin life in the style I am able, by many years of labor, to indulge: and I know of nothing which will tempt you to try it more than the well intentioned but pernicious gifts of rich friends." Such advice to a daughter is timely. If other parents would follow the same plan, many young men would be spared years of incessant toil and anxiety; they would not find themselves on the downward road, because their wives had worn all of their salary, or expended it on the appointments of the house. The fate of the poor man who found a linchpin, and felt himself obliged to make a carriage to fit it, is the fate of the husband who finds his bride in possession of gold and silver valuables and no large income to support the owner's gold and silver style.