VANISHED WEDDING BREAKFASTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3204, 27 April 1911, Page 3

VANISHED WEDDING BREAKFASTS.

No oniore despiriting evidence of a declining civilisation is offered us than in the growing neglect almost contempt —accorded to that most delightful of all institutions, the wedding breakfast. Time was that men and women put on their choicest raiment and repaired to a church to. witness two confiding persons Cuter into a speculative contract. Wo were not in love with the bride, and we did not care a hang for the bridegroom. We groaned over the necessity for unwillingly giving them presents, and poor men suffered torture—to. say nothing of expense—rin doning trousers of an electric (hue, and cramming hot, clammy hands into kid gloves which continuously gave out creakings and cracking# as if the-"- wore a axuill dam about to burst its borders. Still there was always the abiding consolation that the wedding breakfast would malke amend® for all. What happened? The wed- , ding breakfast went out of fashion. No wonder that the marriage rate has been on the wan©. Who will give support to matrimonial ceremonies when the sole reward for labour and expense is. very often, no more than a I glass of cheap sherry a nd a. mouldy bisI cuit?—T. M. Rondel, in 1 * Hondo n Opinion.”