The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-15
ALHAMBRY JAMES OUTING.
Ii Was Considerably Complicated by an Ancient Spec
ulation in Green Goods
by MARY KYLE DALLAS.
oepr1pht 1sst-Au tights Reserved

ION care, eH1u AlHALupI =
don't care what becomes of me if I've
got to go on nay wedding trip with
Noah's ark for trunk. and "Rusk" on it
| like it was bakers wagon. You've
heard ma talk about how she felt when
she had to take it, and it's worse now.
yrve heard your ma retail her suffer-
ms" says |, ''but she lived through
them. So win you.
No, l shan't," says Alhambry; ''Fd
/ rather be took for anything than
crank. | won't have that thing poked
onto me. Eff | had relationship that
| had any detachment for me they'd rise
| up in my offence when most need 'em.
| You can carry on when you're mind
to, Aunt Becky; why air YOU dumb and
| motionless now"
"Alhambry Jane, Gays l, your great
granper 10 naturally quite an elderly,
, aged, old gentleman. and sot. Fur to be
| conterdicted fur the first time In his
ninety-oneth year might be fatal. More
over, though Pm not mercenarious,
don't advise family that amt more
| forehanded than they wish to be offend
| ing a great-granper with property to
leave behind him, and that has already
| had evil influences brought to bear in
regard to leaving it to charitable consti-
tutions instead of his own ancestors.
What is q trunk, however wounding to
| the fashionable inspirations of the heart,
to few thousands to start life wiShS
Be earn, Alhambry Jane, and say to
yourself, what can't be cure must be in
sured, and you and Neptune viii be
| thankful hereafter.
Well, Alhambry Jane felt to feel that
was judgmatical in most things. and
she washed her face in the tin basin out
side the kitchen door and went in. Her
eyes looked like poached eggs. but the
rest of the family knowed why. and
photographers eyes wern't overly good
and he didn't notice.
Only Alharnbry James pa, who is
kinder obstructive, kept lookin puzzled
and sayin
Il had orter tell Alhambry about that
there trunk or suthin, but / can't re-
member what it is
Poor Alhambry 1 used to hear her
cryin and moanin IN her sleep after
that, and I'd go In and shake her, and
she'd say: sOh, Aunt Becky l had
nightmare / thought great-granper
Rusk's old hair trunk had got up and
was sottin on my chest. Or else she
was dreamin that she was settin at
the winder of one of them fxy taverns
they have down to York, and seen the
coiored walters histin the trunk in and
all the fastidicle company larfin at it
And once she thought all her outside
clothes had to be put into it because it
was so big, and she was obleeged to
walk up Broadway in nothin; but
thoughts Of that old hair trunk kerved
lines into AlhaInbry James noble brow
that week that never was defaced, and
amt this minute But she didn't say
nothin, and time went on like relent-
less jugglenot and fetched on the we'd
ding day.
There wus no greet calamitudes fur
as know. only great-granper felt like
he'd enjoy helpin make the fruit cake.
and, his eyesight bein kinder repaired.
he took piece of brown soap for some
citron. and sliced it up and stirred it ill.,
and the evenin of the weddin her pa went
up garnet to read suthin another about
the tariff and forgot about comm down
until most too late, and then appeared at
the door in his old flannel dressin gown,
sayin. you and Neptune is sottin up
ruther late, darter." as they used to do
courtin nights when he thought Nep
ought to go hum. But every body there
knowed he was abstractive. SO there
wern't no need to mind so much as Al
hambry did.
The minister beginnin to christen the
young couple instead of marryin em
wern't nothln neither, only Alhambry's
sensitudes is SO delicate, and when the
other folks all snickered she cried and
made herself look like she was peelin
onions for the rest OF the evenin. Eve
noticed that it's those that feels things
most they happen to oftenest. But
things might have been WIS at Alham-
bry's weddin, even her travelin suit
Seems as eft it was natral arrangement
of Providence that when two is wed his
clothes should fit too good and hers
shouldn't fit at all A brides trawelin
frock always makes her look as ugly as
she kin accordin to her gifts that way,
and though Alharnbry Jane was right
pretty sometimes in an old caliker with
the sleeves tucked mp. hangin out the
washin, in her case her white weddin
gown was more unbecoming than her
gray travelling suit. eff that was pos
sible.
But what does srch things matter if
the Young couple is happy and don't
know it. On what slender chains hangs
our Joys or our sorrer. While they wus
biddin MS goodby great-granper says to
Neptune:
Nep, you kin do me favor down in
York My old friend Captain Peeler
was down to see me yesterday. and he
was showing me his watch that was pre-
scented to him by the passengers for his
gallant conduct in case of shipwTeck
and unhitched it from his chain and left
it behind. Now 1 want you should take
it tohim. Just put it in your pocket.
! He's at the Aston House.
AN right. grauper," says Neptune,
and buttoned it up, never guessin what
trouble it would bring.
Goodby," says pa; seems to me
there wus something ! meant TO say
about that there trunk. can't remember