The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-26
MRS. CLEvELAND's BREAD TRAY.
Wedding Gift from the South that HISS
Been Returned Without Thanks.
Macon Telegraph

wedding Gift from the South that HISS
Been Returned Without Thanks.
Macon Telegraph
'To Mrs Grover Cleveland, from the gress
and Good Telegraph is the legend that famed
upon mammoth tupelo gum bread tray. which
or yesterday sped towards Washington from this
city. Ii Is wedding present from the leading
newspaper OF Georgia to the first lady of the
land
The Telegraph might easily have sent Mrs
Cleveland a set of diamonds silver service.
but these she has already. It preferred to send
an article that will be friend in all seasons.
The bread tray is simple, convertible and adapt
able. 1t is a grand Jeffersonian combination
bread-tray. warranted to serve a Democrats
family in any station 1t may occupy.
Wealth and fashionable friends now surround
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, and the Georgia bread.
tray for a while may look lonesome on the
kitchen wall But can any man say that twill
always be thusl When his term or terms end
Mr.. Cleveland must 60 back to private life, and
Mrs Cleveland with him The diamonds NAV
be stolen, or may fall victims to business re-
verses. The silver service may have to be
melted up. Friends may fall away. and tho
couple now so courted become lonely and hum
BILE. Look at Mr. and Mrs. Hayes In such
emergencies the bread-tray will be found faith-
full 1t is never stolen. Nobody wants to buy
it. and no matter how often the family moves
the breadtray will follow. The family bread
tray sticketh closer than brother
We have said it is a grand combination bread
tray. So IL is. 1t makes a fine card-receiver,
somewhat novel, it is true; but then the fashions
able world loves novelty; it constitutes a fine
lap-board, and for Smelling peas in 1t has
perior IL will also serve as canoe, and Gro.
YER, with good butter-paddle to spropel it, may
enjoy many moonlight ride on the tranquil POI
tomac in the capacious tray And then, too, as
many good Georgia housewives know, it makes
fine cradle If any of Mrs. Cleveland's Fol-
som kin bring babies to be rocked at the White
House, it will be found invaluable There
hasn't been cradle in the White House in forty
years
book might be written on the bread tray. Ii
has figured in many a Georgia scene to which
many mind lovingly reverts Was not Miss
Sallie Stallings up to her elbows in the bread
tray when Major Jones began his courtship2
Anyway, 1t is a familiar scene to many man
who courted after the Majors fashion; and old
bread trays hanging now on Georgia walls, could
they speak, would tell Of hands imprisoned in
the treacherous dough, and rosy lips kissed
above them
such wooing, or that her courtship, which may
begin after marriage, could be pitched in the
humber tones of life that the bread tray heard
Many lassies heart has gone in the dough she
kneaded and into her cakes. which reached q
lovers by the surest route And these lassies
have been happier than all the White House
ladies combined. Grover may yet live to see the
day when he will side in the gate late of an
afternoon and gaily sing;
Chicken in the bread.tray
Scratchin' out the dough-
Sally, will your dog bite"
and hear q merry voice indoors shout back:
mo, child, mol"
And if he does he will bless the day. And the
combination Jeffersonian bread tray, now
rafting on to its destiny. will be there, too.
with the great and good Telegraph's name on
the outside and its best wishes within.