The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-04-27
THE FAMILY ALBUM.
An Article which is the Pride
of Many Households.
Its Array of Portraits Brought to the
Front on Many Occasions.

The family album is the pride of many
a household. Its photographs and tim
types, with now and then a gorgeous
plcture-card or valentine of paper lace,
are the chief ornament of many q village
or country parlor. The visitor must sec
the album before he takes his leave, or
he has not been properly entertained.
The pleased hostess Or some young lady
member of her family sits by to tell the
visitor "who the folks in the album are. "
The grandfathers and grandmothers on
both sides of the family generally come
first.
'That's grandma and grandpa, and
they're real good pictures of them. They
didn't much like to sit for them, but we
coaxed them into it," says the person
whose pleasing duty it is to give the gen
calogy of each face represented.
"And this is Aunt Melinda, mothers
sister, but it don't look like her. Her
name is Randall. She married a man of
that name and she lives in Ohio. She
has four children, three boys and a girl.
That's her little girl on the left, taken
the day che was a year old, and she
wouldn't sit still. She has real black
hair, and her names Margaret Ann"
"This is pas brother Zenas, but it
don't look much like him; you'd never
know him for this. That's his wife by
him The picture f1atters her awfully.
She amt a bit pretty; she's real dark
completed, and you'd think she was
light from the picture.
"This is my cousin Elisha and he1
baby, and there's two more pictures of
the baby farther over, taken when she
was older. She's almost four years old
now, and knows all her letters. The
man standing up is her father, one of his
legs is cork; you'd never think it, would
you2"
"This girl here and that one on the
other page arc the same, and they don't
look one earthly bit alike, do they2 He1
name is Cindy Patch, and that's all he1
W. hair hanging down her back, and it
amt half as thick as it used to be.
either"
THAT couple sitting down locking
arms arc married, and that was taken on
their wedding day. They're cousins of
ours, and that baby on the other page is
theirs. It's a boy, but it looks for all
the world like a girl, don't it2"
That's my uncle and aunt. THEY'RE
dead now. This was taken before they
died. They lived in Iowa. That is
their Oldest girl, taken just on her tenth
birthday. She weighed a hundred pounds
then. just think of it! She's real GOOD
looking for anyone so fat. This is faith
er's sisters husbands first wifc's son. and
this Is my mothers brothers first wife.
ana this IS, her sister. They visited us
and she had three silk dresses al,
new.
This is my fathers aunt. She never
was married, and this is an old maid.
and this is her brother. They don't look
a bit alike.
1hcsc arc my Aunt Harriet's twin
boys, and one of them is half a head tall.
er than the other; amt that funny2 Ones
night and ones dark complicated, and
their names arc John Henry and William
ana SO it goes to the last page of the
book, when you are asked to
add your own ~physiognomy to those in
which you have, of course, been so deep
y Interested. -Reho6oM Sunday Herald.