The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-20
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An hour later Mrs. and Miss Grub
appeared, and the six small children.
So the day passed-Mrs. and Miss
Grub sucking lemons all day, for they
had q good deal of speaking to do that
afternoon and evening. John, Jr., and
ST., were busy around the house.
At about 4 o'clock the whole family,
headed by Mrs. and Miss Grub Tin full
bloomer pants), followed by John, Sr.,
and Jr., with the children-marched to
the reserved seats in the rather small
town hall.
John, Jr.'s, face wore q very mel
ancholy expression, and he looked list
lessly on, not that the turkey had been
too much for him, for Mrs. Grub, hav-
ing a good appetite herself, was too much
for It'll
And while he sits on the rather crowd
ed platform, thinking of the anniversary
of this day, long ago-others have NOT
been idle.
Mrs. Grub, after prayer, opened the
meeting with q few pertinent remarks
and then introduced that eminent lady
Miss De Boney."
"That eminent lady," with a smirh
of her mouth, come forward. She wa
about 80 and q maiden. What her OBJ.
ject was in trying to pass the resolution
in regard to women not assuming their
husbands name, i cannot say.
After a rather iong-winded speech,
she sas down, aIIid TaPtuT0Is appliance
Then the "Machieon family gave M
of their characteristic glees,," and in
answer to an encore, gave the woman'a
War Song"
At this iuncture a stir was heard on
the platform, and John, Jr., among
the rest, looked up and saw Mandy
Baker,
She had come through tho back way,
and Mrs. Grub, seeing her, knew her
spite the bronzed skin and incipient
mustache,
John, Jr. felt himself growing pale as
she sat near him, with her large. black
eyes fixed on the speakers face.
At last in answer to q motion from
Mrs. Grub, she. came forward, and Mrs
Grub introduced Miss Baker, the grea.
African traveller, who had successfully
established q woman's rights government
among the cannibals of the Fiji Islands
as also the rest of the islands of the Pa
cifc!n
She was greeted with rapturous APP
plause, and, with a great deal of modss
esty, said she had surprised her most
intimate friends by appearing so sud
denly. She thanked them for her re-
ception, and would take the first OPP
portunity to address them at length.
And she took a seat. Now she had
come to recognize the blushing John,
Jr., which she did by asking him in a
solemn voice, how he was? for Mandy
was not given to exhibit her feelings in
public.
Now, the meeting broke up, to go to
supper and return the same evening.
Mandy and John, Jr., walked behind
the rest-John, Jr., on the Inside-Mrs.
Grub with a woman's ferethought, had
placed themso.
And John, Jr., was very, very happy.
If one may Judge from his extended
mouth and smile as he listened to his
beloved ones "reminiscences.
do not propose to enter into details
IN regard to Mandy Bakers fortunes.
/ have intimated that she had gone
into the world to make her fortune
preferring to ask John, Jr., for his
hand when she could support Q well.
built house.
She had found making her fortune
very slow work, and at the end Of four
years she had come back with but very
little gold. But she had done immeas-
urable good in the uncultivated regions
OF Africa and the islands Of the T aoiao,
and, would you believe, had received
| six distinct offers of marriage. at which
John shuddered and asked was she
heart free.
The question was soon answered, for
at the supper table that night Mandy
formally asked his mother for the hand
ess the bIushing John.
OF course, it was given, and Mandy
sealed the bargain by kissing John, end
in lieu of q ring, put o gold circle
around his finger.
Then Mrs. Grubb, with an eye tothe
future, and knowing that they had
been engaged long enough, proposed
that they should get married before
they attended the evening session, when
| she could haze the pleasure Of .
cling the African traveller as her daugh-
| ter-in-law.
The Rev. Mrs. Van Colt was called
in, and Mandy Baker promised ITO
love, cherish and support and take
John, Jr., for better or for worse"
So John Jr.,'s face wore q happy ex-
preston that night. as he heard his
lord and master speak so splendidly Of
her adventures.
In fact, it was John Grubb's thanks.
givingl'