The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-02-23
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SISTER SUES wEDDING.

while ago. That's what everybody says as
knows her. She has been engaged to MIR.
Trayers for three years, and she had to re-
fuse lots of offers to 60 to the circus with
other young men. have wanted her to
get married so that I could go and live with
her and Mr.. Travers. When I think that
if it hadn't been for mistake made she
would have been married yesterday, I find
it dreadfully hard to be resigned. But we
ought always to be resigned to everything
when we can't help it. 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 going to write to the Young
Peoples postofice box and offer to exchange
it for bicycle, st. Bernard dog and
twelve good books, but he finally let me
have it for dollar and half 1t prints
beautifully, and 1 have printed cards for
ever so many people, and made three dol
lars and seventy cents already. l thought
it would be real nice to be able to print
circus bills in case Tom and / should ever
have another circus, so I 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 without
waiting any longer. You should have
seen what a state of mind her and mother
were in. They did nothing but 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 brides
maids and six bridegrooms, and flowers,
and music, and things, till you couldn't
rest. The only thing that troubled her
was making up her mind whe to invite.
Mother wanted to invite Mr.. and Mrs Nc
Fadden and the seven McFadden girls; but
Sue said they had insulted her, and she
couldn't bear the idea of asking the Nc
Fadden 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 family should be invited. She counted
up all the people she meant to invite, and
there were nearly three hundred of them.
You would hardly believe it, but she told
me must carry around all the invitations
and deliver them myself Of course 1
could not do this without neglecting my
studies and losing time, which is always
precious, so l thought of a plan which
would save Sue the trouble of directing
three hundred invitations and save me from
wasting time delivering them. l got to
work with my printing press and printed
dozen splendid big bills about the we'd
ding. When they were printed 1 cut a
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 perfectly gorgeous, and
you could see them four or five rods off.
When they were all done, made some
paste in a 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 Susan and said:
''Susan, what does this mean? These
bills are pasted all over the village, and
there are crowds of people reading them. y
She read the bill and then she gave an
awful shrek and tainted away, and 1 hur-
ried down to the postoffice to see if the
mail had come. This was on the bill, 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 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 to find fault with
in that? 1t was printed beautifully and
every word was spelled right, with the ex-
ception 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 my trouble,
but she was as angry as if | had done some
thing real bad. Mr.. Travers was almost
as angry as Sue, and it 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 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 per-
fectly die if she were to have wedding at
home after that boys dreadful conduct
What is worse, am to be sent away to a
boarding school, and all because l made a
mistake in printing the wedding bills with
out first asking Sue how she would like to
have them printed.