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 MARRIAGE SUPPER.

Veal Pie.

Tarts.Cream.

Potatoes.

Fruit.Shortbread,

Small Round of Salt Beef.

Should parties prefer, tea may be taken previously; and, after an hour or two of easy and rational conversation, supper may be brought in.

Extravagance and dissipation are highly blameworthy, and quite contrary to good manners.

In no department of family economy can a more effectual and judicious saving be made, than in the articles included under this division of our subject.

Tea and Sugar are coming into daily and universal use, and yet in the manner of purchasing them by certain classes they bear an enormous price.

Tea should be chosen by the small size and curl of the leaf, and by the strength as well as freshness of the flavour. Large flat leaves, and pieces of stick, show that it is coarse, and of inferior quality. If it be not much adulterated, yet there is too much reason to believe that tea is sold at a certain price, while mixed with tea that bears an inferior one. Though it may be had of all prices, still it is a certain fact, that cheap coarse tea is ultimately the