OMETIMES people celebrate various anniversaries of their marriage. This custom is happily on the increase, and is much to be commended, as such celebrations are generally made occasions of sincere congratu- lations and happy reminiscences. The First anniversary is called the Cotton wedding.

The Second, the PAPER wedding. The Third, the LEATHER wedding. The Fifth, the WOODEN wedding. The Seventh, the WOOLEN wedding. The Tenth, the TIN wedding. The Twelfth, the SILK and FINE LINEN wedding. The Fifteenth, the CRYSTAL (GLASS) wedding. The Twentieth, the CHINA wedding. The Twenty-fifth, the SILVER wedding. The Fiftieth, the GOLDEN wedding. The Seventy-fifth, the DIAMOND wedding.

It is customary in issuing invitations for celebrating the different wedding anniversaries, to print them on a material emblematical of the occasion, the first anniversary being printed on cloth; the second, paper; following with leather, thin sheets of wood, tinfoil, silk, glass, silver and gold paper, and other materials.

All who accept of such an invitation, and are present at the festivities of these anniversaries, are expected to contribute to the collection of gifts, appropriate to the occasion.

If the party issuing invitations to a wedding celebration do not wish any wedding gifts to be tendered them, a card should

be enclosed containing the words, “It is preferred that no wedding gifts be offered.”

The present fashionable style of invitations is a heavy beveled-edge cardboard, folded in center to fit envelope, engraved as in wedding cards.

The following forms of invitation for such anniversaries are used: