The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-09-13


gazed with admiration at the object
spread out on the bed. 1t was care
fully-pieced quilt, of a somewhat in
tricate pattern.
'Jimmy's bride can't help being
tickled with that, said Mrs. Dake, as
she smoothed out fold; ''and if she
knows anything about nice quitting,
she'll see that want quilted in day.
Well, | guess not quilted ev'ry last
stitch of it myself, and there's good
half-day's work in some of them blocks
with the feather and herrin' bone pat
ternsand the shell border all round
the aidge. had that quilt in the
frames five weeks and three days, and
L put all the time L could get on it, and
there amt no slack work, tired as 1
did get of seeing'it round.
She smoothed out another crease.
'tLemme see, she went on. ''There's
2147 pieces in the quilt, and good
many of 'em are pieces of Jimmy's lit
tie baby dresses. That'll please his
wife, jest know. Here's block made
of calico like little pink dress he had
when his ma first put him into short
dresses. l. remember it was made
with low neck and short sleeves, like
they made baby dresses in them days,
and his little shoulders and arms was
almost as pink as the dress.
"And here's pieces like little double
gown he had fore he went into short
dresses. And this piece of blue cham
berry is like little shnbonnet he had,
all lined with fine white jaconet. And
here is a piece of fine muslin with a
little pink sprig in it like the first short
dress Jimmy ever had. He did look
so cunnin' in it, with the sleeves looped
back, and tumble-curl on the top of
his head
ON show his wife-to-be all these
pieces, and if she amt tickled with the
quilt, she'll be a queer one.
Then NJ rs. Dake went over to an
old-fashiohed mahogany bureau with
brass knobs, and took from the upper
drawer a large, square cream-tinted
envelope, out of which she carefully
drew the 'invite" to Jimmy's we'd
ding.
'Mr. and Mrs. William p. Holbrook
invite you to be present at the mar
riage of their daughter Helen and
James Barclay Larkin, Wednesday
evening, September IA. d"
Then followed the address of the
brides parents, in a city 400 miles
from Mrs. Dake's home.
'But I'm goin' !" she said gleefully,
0s she slipped the invitation back into
its envelope. 'T'd go if il was twice
as far. I amt seen Jimmy for near on
to five years, and he always seemed
like my own boy to me cause / never
had none o my own, and helped to
bring him up after his own ma died,
when he want but just in his first little
trousies.
81 amt been SO fan. from home in
many d long year, and 1 reckoned my
travelin' days was done, but I've got
to go and see Jimmy married. 1 must
see Elyiry Hodge right away about
turning and making over my black
silk, and / must see Samantha Rose
about a new cap. l guess I'll have to
have something kind o smart for
city weddin', where they'll all be fini-
fed up so. don't want Jimmy to be
ashamed of his old aunty; but lawsy
me Jimmy wouldn't be ashamed of
me if went in my plain calico house
dress. He want raised to set clothes
above his relations, and he amt got
nothing to be 'shamed of in any of his
folks"
Then Jimmy's aunt her face aglow
with loving thoughts of seeing Jimmy
again, folded up the quilt carefully in
an old sheet, and laid it away in a
lower drawer of the bureau, saying:
81 s'poso they'll have lots of nice
presents, but III warrant you they
won't have ono thatrepresents as much
lovin' labor as that quilt. had to
cry a little when l quilted them blocks
with the pieces of his baby dresses in !
'em. His wife ought to think the
world and all of the quilt ! hope to
the land she won't go TO using it com
mon