Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-21
Sues Wedding.

Sues Wedding.
Sue ought to have been married n
long while ago. That's what everybody
says who knows her. She has been en-
gagged TO Mr.. Travcrs for three wears,
and has had to refuse lots of offers 20
90 TO the circus with other young men
have wanted her TO get married. so
that could 60 and live with her and
MIR. Travers. When / think that if it
hadn't been for a mistake made she
would have been married Yesterday, |
lind it dreadfully hard to be resigned
But we ought always to be resigned to
everything when we can't help it.
Before i go any further / must tell
you about my printing press. 1t be-
longed to Tom McGinnis. but he cot
tired of it and sold it to me real cheap.
He was going to offer to exchange it for
bicycle, a st. Bernard deg and twelve
good books, but he finally let me have
1t for dollar and a half.
1t prints beautifully, and / have
printed cards for ever so many people,
and male three dollars and seventy
cents already. / thought it would be
nice to be able TO print circus bills in
case Tom and should ever have anoth-
or circus, SO | sent to the city and
bought some type morenaninch high,
and some beautiful yellow paper.
Last week it was finally agreed that
Sue and Mr.. Travers should be married
without waiting any longer. You should
have seen what a state OF mind she and
her mother were in. They did nothing
but buy new clothes, and sew, and talk
about the wedding all day long. Sue
was determined to be married in church,
and to have six bridesmaids and bride
groOms, and flowers and music and
/ things, till you couldn't rest. The only
/ thing that troubled her was making up
her mind who to invite. Mother wanted
/ her to invite Mr.. and Mrs. McFadden and
the seven McFaddcn girls, but Sue said
they had insulted her, and she couldn't
bear the idea of asking the McFadden
tribe. Everybody agreed that old Mr..
+ Wilkinson, who once came to party al
our house with one boot and one Slip
/ per, couldn't be invited; but it was de-
/ cided that every one else that was on
good terms with our family should have
IN invitation.
I Sue counted up all the people she
meant to invite, and there was nearly
three hundred of them. You would
1 hardly believe it, but she :old me that i
must carry around all the invitations
and deliver them myself. OF course |
couldn't do this without neglecting my
/ studies and losing time, which is ALWAYS
I precious, so | thought of plan which
would save Sue the trouble of directing
/ three hundred invitations and save me
4 Il. a.
! got to work with my printing press
and printed dozen splendid big bills
about the wedding. When they were
/ printed cut lot of small pictures OF
animals and ladies riding on horses out
of some old circus-bills and pasted them
on the wedding-bills. They were per-
fectly gorgeous, and you could see them
/ four or five rods of. When they were
all done made some paste in tin pail
and went out after dark and pasted
/ them in good places all over the village.
The next afternoon father came into
/ the house looking very stern, and car
/ rying one of the wedding-bills in his
hand. He handed it to sue and said:
"Susan, what does this mean? These
bills are pasted all over the village, and
/ there are crowds of people reaSng
/ them. Sue read the bill, and then she
gave an awful shrek, and tainted away,
and hurried down to the post-oliice to
{ see If the mail had come in. This is
/ what was on the wedding bills, and ]
am sure it was spelled all right:
Miss Susan Brown announces that she will
marry Mr.. James Travers
a. the Church next Thursday at half past
seven, sharp.
/ All the Friends or the Family
| With the exception of
the McFadien tribe and old Mr.. Wilkinson
are invited.
Come carly and bring
Lots of Flowers.
I Now what was there to find fault with
/ in that9 1t was printed beautifully.
and every word was spelled right, with
I the exception of the name of the church.
and didn't put that in because wasn't
/ quite sure how to spell it. The bill
saved Sue all the trouble of sending out
invitations, and it said everything that
/ anybody could want to know about the
wedding Any other girl but Sue would
have been pleased, and would have
| thanked me for all my trouble, but she
was as angry as if had done something
real bad. Mr.. Travers was almost as
angry rs Sue, and it was the first time
he was ever angry with me. l am
afraid now that he won't let me ever
come and live with him. He hasn't
said word about my coming since the
wedding bills were put up. As for the
wedding, it has been put off, and Sue
says she will 60 to New York to be
married, for she would perfectly die il
she were to have a wedding at home
after that boys dreadful conduct.
I (. L
boarding-school. and all because made
n mistake in printing the wedding bills
without first asking Sue how she would
like to have them printed" Jimmy
Bro'CR," ia Hdrper'S Young People.