In these days of military hustle, when a soldier comes home, falls in
love, gets engaged, marries, sets up a home, and returns to the Front
in less than a week, there is little time for the ordinary courtesies
of matrimonial procedure. It is felt, therefore, that the appended
printed form of thanks for wedding presents--based on the model of the
Field Service Postcard--will prove a great boon to all soldiers who
meditate matrimony during short leave. It will be found sufficient
merely to strike out inappropriate words in the printed form, which is
as follows:--
"Captain and Mrs. ---- beg to return thanks for your
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Beautiful |
Charming |
Generous |
Very generous |
Useful | Gift
Very Useful |- Cheque
More than useful | Letter."
Unexpected |
Totally unexpected |
Remarkable |
Artistic |
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_Examples_.--(1) To a rich and miserly uncle, who has come down with
an astonishingly handsome sum--strike out everything except "Very
generous--more than useful--totally unexpected cheque."
(2) To an eccentric former admirer of the bride, who has sent a
forty-stanza poem, entitled "Sunset in the White-chapel Road: Thoughts
Thereon"--strike out everything except "Remarkable gift."
(3) To an enormously wealthy female relative, who disapproves of the
bride and has sent a second-hand plated sugar-sifter--strike out
everything except "Gift."
(4) To anyone of whom much was expected, but who neither gave a
present nor wrote--strike out everything on the postcard.
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"Strange Story of a Wedding in the Divorce Court."--_Daily News_.
It seems a rather unfortunate choice of _locale_.
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