South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1889-05-10

maven 30 many 0tooes near, Is /
shall need. We shall have TO bor-
ron or hire one or two sofas and some
more chsirs. | am going 10 get Ars.
Green, who lives In the other part OF
The house, to let ne use her parlor.
You know II 10 only just scross the
hall from milne moss folks will think
both paslors are mime
'Ofcourse; they don't know that
MN. Green has bali the house, How
should theyf But Il seems 20 me
you are expecting very great num-
Der OF guests. ! did not know that
You had very large circle of &C.
quaintances in this town-especislly
among the wealthy people. Few new
Corners make their acquaintance, I'm.
less there is something more than or.
dinary TO bring them In contact.
Well, have . speaking acquaint.
ance with some Of the richest of them
-folks | meet at church, and --all
the richest families In town attend
church where I do. I shall invite
them-ttey'll come, know - =
Perhaps you'll know better after
next Tuesday. But you havn't YET
decided what kind Of q wedding il
shall be-
MOL know I havn't. Let me
see; what Is the regular rule p
| why, first of all. not to have any
such wedding under Eve years from
marriage. Then it goes on this way
five years. tin; ten years, cry 81 al !;
fifteen years, linen, twenty years,
china; twenty. 1--WE years, silver; al
ter that 1t gees by the tens; thirty
years. mahogany; forty, marble.top
rosewood; fifty. gold
oh! don't 1 wish I'd been mar
ried fifty years Aud there's moth
ing for two years!'
No, indeed. Nobody ever heard
Of such thing I
Then it's time they did. People
shall hear of something new very
soon. Let me see-tin, crystal, linen
oh! there's wooden wedding! I'm
certain I've heard Of wooden wed-
ding, and you didn't get that in.
mean to have wooden wedding
'Pshaw! Angelica A wooden
wedding wouldn't pay you for your
palms,
why, Pm sure there arc O great
many useful and ornamental things
in wood that they. might bring me-.
Yes, wooden ladies, tubs, WISH
boards, and the like. They'd look
beautiful for wedding presents
Such things cost money, and they re
not TO be despised.'
i know all that. We had an il.
lustration OF it last wash-day, whoa
we'd only one tub to rub and rinse
in, and bad to rinse our clothes in
the coal -scuttle and the dish pan.
I'd let the old wedding go, and use
the money TO buy a set Of new tubs.
'Psha1 we can have the new tubs
any time, only Jake forgets to buy
them. And as for the coal scuttle, it
was bran.new, iron timed over, and
never had been soiled With a bit OF
coal; the dish-pan was new. too-not
speck Of rust on it: and if there
hadn't been two of US washing. |
should have got along without using
either. But I'm going to have the
wedding, at all events. There are
plenty Of pretty things in wood, such
as brackets. towel.recks, and other
fancy furniture. But if you think q
wooden wedding is no, just the thing,
what do You sly t" q flannel Que ?
Flannel Is very useful, and its com.
ing fall Of The year
Flannel. Angelica! Ridiculous I
Think OF lhs garments they might
send you baby blankets and who
knows what The Very Reverend
Sweet. himself would laugh at you Z
We'll, IL must he some kind Of a
welding. l guess it had better be
linen
Linen is for fifteen, I tell you.
'Pshaw! Ruth Who do you SUP
pose made the rule, and who Is oblip
ed to obey itP / do not believe there
IS any definite rule
But there is. Custom is rule suffi.
cient. and It's the custom here to have
the linen wedding AZ ffteen years.
Then L mean to have it crystal
mo. you can't; for by custom that
comes at ten, and by custom YOU can.
not have any wedding. for nobody
has them ut two years
Then I'll start a custom; and if il
cannot be anything else, it shall be a
cotton wed ling. There's everything
in cotton that's useful-and ornamen-
tai, too. Yes, IT, shall be a cotton
wedding, Ruth -
n - .
The eventful Tuesday night found
Mrs. Angelica Skittle fully prepared
for grand display. But, aiack and
alas where were the witnesses of
her triumph ?
That very night, Rev. PhiIander
Sweet was married to the sclf-ssme
lady who, rumor falsely said, had
cruelty Tilted him. Moreover, all the
'tiptops' Of the town were at his we'd.
ding; for the bride was wealthy, and
the bridegroom popular.
Also, the Tuesday was most unex,
pectcdly, most unreasonsbly. most
disagreeably, stormy. The few pers
sonal friends who would have honor
cd Mrs. Jake Skittle with their pres.
ence and their presents, we're kept az
home by the Indictment westber. Tue
cake, the piano, the dishes, the furni.
ture. we're all at the wedding. NJ
Jake Skittle was there, glorious
her bridal array and her expectations
expectations slowly aud painfully
destroyed by the dragging hours and
the deluging rain. Mr.. Jake SkittIe
was there. looking half mad and bali