The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-12-08
Sues Wedding.

i~N-o 1900 "5Os AiIdl WlidJ eyer y
body says who knows her. She has
been engaged to Mr.. Travers for three
years, and has had to refuse lots of
Offers to go to the circus with other
young men. | have wanted her TO
get married. SO that l could 90 and
live with her AMI Mr.. Travers. When
] think that if it hadn't been for a
mistake | made she would have been
married yesterday, [ find it dread
fully hard to be resigned. But we
ought always to be resigned to every
thing when we can't help it.
Before | 60 any Further I must tell
about my printing press. 1t belong
ed to Tom McGinnis, but he got tired
OF it and sold it to me real cheap. He
was going to offer to exchange it for
a bicycle, a st. Bernard dog, and
twelve books. but he finally let me
have it for dollar and a-half.
II prints beautifully, and I have
printed cards Tor ever so many people
and made three dollars and seventy
cents already. I thought it would be
nice to be able to print circus bills in
case Tom aud | should ever have
another circus, so / sent to the city
and bought some type morenaninch
high, and some very 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 mother were in. They
did nothing but buy new clothes,
and sew, and talk about the wedding
all day long. She was determined to
be married in church, and to have
six bridesmaids sand brIdegrOoms, 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 lnyite Mr.. and Mrs. McFadden
and the seven McFadden girls, but
Sue said they had inSutteG her, and
she couldn't bear the idea of asking
the McFadden tribe. Everybody
agreed that old Mr.. Wilkinson, who
once came to a party at our house
with one boctaud one slipper, couldn't
he invited but it was decided that
every one else that was on good terms
with our family should have an invis
tation.
Sue counted up all the people she
meant to invite, and there was nearly
three hundred of them. You would
hardly believe it. but she told me
that must carry around all the in
vitations and deliver them myself.
Of course | couldn't do this without
neglecting my studies and losing
time, which is always precious, SO /
thought of plan which would save
Sue the trouble of directing three
hundred invitations and save me
from wasting time in delivering
them.
I got to work with my printing
press, and printed a Dozen splendid
big bills about the wedding. When
they were printed | cut a 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 perfectly gorgeous,
and you could see them IN good places
al over the village.
The next afternoon father came
into the house locking very stern,
and carrying one of the wedding bills
in his hand. He handed it to Sac
and said /: "SusaT, what does this
mean? These bills are posted all
over the village, and there are crowds
of people reading them" Sue read
the bill and then she gave an awful
shrek and tainted away. and hur-
ried down to the pnst-offire 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
at the Church next Thursday at halfpast
seven. sharp.
All the Friends of the Family
With the exception of
the MeFadden tribe and Mr.. Wilkinson
are invited.
Come early and bring
Lots of Flowers.
Now what was there to find fault
with in that? 1t was printed beau
tifully, and every word was spelled
right, with 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 we'd
ding. 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 as Sue, and il
was the first time he was ever angry
with me. | am afraid now that he
won't let noe ever come and live with
him. He hasn't said a word about
NV pOninU ever since the Wp06inU