The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-03-15
Sister Sues Wedding.

Accompaniment to hymn.
Sister Sues Wedding.
| She ought to have been married
long while ago. That's what every
body says as knows her. She has been
engaged to Mr.. Travers for three years,
and she had to refuse lots of offers to 60
to the circus with other young men. l
have wanted her to get married so that
I could 60 and live with her and Mr..
Travers. When I think that if it hadn't
been for a mistake l made she would
have been married yesterday, l find it
6fTeadfully hard to be resigned. But
we ought always to be resigned to every
thing when we can't help it. Before 1
60 any further I must tell you about my
printing press. 1t belonged to Tommy
McGinnis, but he got tired of it and
sold it to me real cheap. He was going
to write to the Young Peoples post
office box and exchange it for a bicy-
Gle, St. Bernard dog and twelve good
books, but he let me have it for a
dollar and half. 1t prints beautiful,
and I have printed cards for ever so
many people, and made three dollars
and seventy cents already. l thought
it would be real nice to be able to print
circus bills in case Tom and l should
ever have another circus, so l sent to
the city and bought some type more
than an inch long, and some beautiful
yellow paper.
Last week it was decided that Sue and
Mr.. Travers should be married with
out waiting longer. You should have
bldias buy new clothes, and sew and talk
of the wedding all day long. She was
determined to be married in church,
and to have six bridesmaids and six
bridegrooms, and flowers, and music,
and things, till you couldn't rest. The
only thing that troubled her was max
ing up her mind who to invite. Mother
wanted to invite Mr.. and Mrs. McFad-
den and the seven McFadden 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 at our house with one boot
and one slipper, couldn't be invited
but it was decided that every one else
that was on good terms with the fami-
ly should be invited. She counted all
the people she meant to invite, and
there were nearly three hundred ofthem.
You would hardly believe it, but she
told me I must carry around all the in
vitations and deliver them myself. Of
course 1 could not do this without ne
electing my studies and losing time,
which is always precious, SO | thought
of a plan that would save Sue from
the trouble of directing three hundred
invitations and save me from wasting
time delivering them. got to work
with my printing press and printed a
dozen splended big bills about the we'd
ding. When they were printed cut
lot of small pictures of animals and Ia
dies riding on horses out of some OF the
old circus bills. They were perfectly
gorgeous, and you could see them four
or five rods off. When they were all
done, made some paste in tin pail
and went out after dark and pasted them
in good places all overthe village. The
next afternoon father came in looking
very stern, and carrying one ofthe wed
ding bills in his hand. He handed II
to Sue and said:
"Sue what does this mean? These
bills are pasted all over the village, ano
there are crowds of people reading
them." She read the bill and ther
gave a awful shrek and tainted away
! and 1 hurried down to the postoffice tt
see if the mail had come. This was or
the bill, and 1 am sure it was spelled
all right:
Miss Susan Crown announces that she will MARI
Mr.. James Travers
at the church next Thursday at 1880 sharp.
All the Friends of the Family
with the exception of
McFadden tribe and old Mr.. Wilkinson
are invited.
Come early and bring
lots of flowers.
! Now, what was there tofind fault wit
in that? 1t was printed beautifully ant
every word was spelled right, with tn
exception of the name of the church
and didn't put that in because wa
: not sure how tospellit. The bill save
Sue all the trouble of sending out inv
tations, and it said everything that any
body could want to know about tn
wedding. Any other girl but Sue woul
have been pleased, and would hav
thanked me for my trouble, but she wa
as angry as if 1 had done somethin
\ real bad. Mr.. Travers was almost
angry as Sue, and it was the first tim
he was angry with me. am afral
he won't let me ever come and llv
J. him. He hasn't said word about m
coming since the wedding bills wei
5. put up. AS for the wedding, it h;
been put off, and Sue saysshe will got
New York to be married, for she woul
!, perfectly die if she were to have wet
ding at home after that boys dreadf
conduct.
SSr"Your husband always appears
be in very high spirits" eyes"
D turned his wife, ''if they didn't come