The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-03-04
JIMMY TRIES HIS PRESS ON
HIS SISTERS WEDDING IN.
VITATKONS.

vITATIONS.
She ought to have been married long
while ago. That's what everybody says
as knows her. She has been engaged to
Mr. Travers for three years, and she had
to refuse lots of offers to go to the circus
with other young men. have wanted
her to get married 80 that could 90 and
live with her and Mr.. Travers. When l
think that if it hadn'g:A>en for mistake
| made she would have been married yes
terday, l find it dreadfully hard to be re-
signed. But we ought always to be re-
signed to everything when we can't help
1t. Before | GO any further l must tell
about my printing press. 1t belonged to
Tommy McGinnis, but he got tired of it
and sold it to me real cheap He was go
ing to write to the Young Peoples post
office box and offer to exchange it for a
bicycle, St. Bernard dog, and twelve
good books, but he finally let me have it
for dollar and a half 1t prints beauti-
fully, and | have printed cards for ever
80 many people, and made 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
another circus, SO | sent to the city and
bought some type more than an inch high,
and some beautiful yellow paper
Last week it was decided that Sue and
Mr. Travers should he married without
waiting any longer You should have
seen what a state of mind her and her
mother were in. They did nothing but
buy new clothes, and sew and talk of
the wedding all day long. She was de-
termined to be married in church, and to
have six bridemaids and six bridegrooms,
and flowers, and music, and things till
you couldn't rest The only thing that
troubled her was making up her mi d
Mr. and Mrs McFsdden and the seven
McFadden girls; but Sue said they had
insulted her, and she couldn't bear the
idea of asking the McFadden tribe.
Every body agreed that old Mr.. WiIkin-
son, 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 family should be invited
She counted up all the people she meant
to invite, and there were nearly three hun
dred of them You would hardly believe
it, but she told me | must carry around
all the invitations and deliver them my
self. OF course could not do this with
out negecting my studies and losing time,
which is always precious, SO | thought of
a plan which would save Sue the trouble
of directing three hundred invitations and
them. got to work with my printing
press and printed a dozen splendid big
bills about the wedding. When they
we're printed cut lot Of small pictures
of animals and ladies riding on horses out
of some old circus bills, and pasted them
on to the wedding bills. They were per
tectly gorgeous, and you could see them
four or FIVE rods off, When they were
all done, l 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 carrying one of
the wedding bills in his hand. He
handed it to Susan and said:
"Susan, what does this mean! These
bills are pasted all over the village, and
there are crowds of people reading them"
She read the bill and then she gave an
awful shrek and tainted away, and hur-
ried down to the post-office to see if the
mail had come. This was on the bill, and
| am sure it was spelled all right:
Miss Susan Brown annsunces that she will
marry Mr.. James Travers
at the church next Thursday at 7:30 sharp.
All the Friends Of the Family
with the exception OF
the McFadden tribe and old Mr. Wilkinson
are invited.
Come early and bring
lots OF flowers
Now, what was there to find fault with
in that? 1t was printed beautifully, and
every word was spelled right, with the
exception of the name of the church, and
| didn't put that in because I wasn't quite
sure how to spell it. The bill saved Sue
all the trouble Of sending out invitations,
and it said everything that nybody could
want to know about the wedding. Any
other girl but Sue would have been
pleased and would have thanked me for
my trouble, but she was as angry as if |
had done something real bad. Mr. Ira
vers was almost as angry as Sue, and 1t
was the first time he was ever angry with
me. | am afraid now he won't let me
ever come and live with him. He hasn't
said a word about my coming since the
wedding bills were put up. AS for the
wedding, it has been put of, and Sue says
she will 60 to New York to be married,
for she would perfectly die if she were to
have a wedding at home after that boys
dreadful conduct What is worse, am
to be sent away to boarding school,
and all because made mistake in print
ing the wedding bills without first asking
Sue how she would like to have them
printed.