The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-10
WEDDING FROM THE OUTS DE.

some Neixhborly comments on the
Bride, Her Family, and Her Fate.
Two men drove up to the house, took
the framework and canvas of canopy
out of the wagon, and began erecting
it across the sidewalk and up the stoop.
1t was quiet, respectable, well-order-
ed neighborhood, where things worth
talking about rarely happened. So the
canopy set the neighbors talking.
what can it beY' asked one across
the street.
1T can't be that they are going to
give reception" replied her compan-
ion.
well, 1 should say not" rejoined the
first. 'They are entirely too mean to
do anything of the kind"
A caterers wagon drove up and men
began carrying boxes into the house.
"Oh, come and lookv' cried a neigh
Dor across the street. 'Those people
are actually going to have something to
eat at last"
"You don't mean itv' exclaimed her
companion.
'1've watched and watched and
watched" continued the neighbor, "and
I've never seen more than ten cents
worth of food carried into that house
at one time before"
''How could they manage to live"
asked the companion.
81 never could find out" replied the
neighbor. "They must have been saw
ing all these years. But what can it be
that they are going to have"
A florists wagon drove up and deliv-
cred masses of flowers.
do you suppose it's somebody that's
dead? asked a third neighbor.
WELL" replied her companion, "if
any of that family was dead, should
think their friends would be glad
enough to send them flowers"
A delivery wagon drove up and left a
green and gold chair.
''Do you know what?'' cried one of
party Of neighbors. Its a wedding"
''No" cried the neighbOrs in chorus.
eyes, continued the first, "and that's
one of the wedding presents"
what horrid, cheap-looking thing
to sendv' commented a neighbor.
at shows what their friends think
of them if they get presents like that"
But there's nobody in that house to
get married.
Nobody under 40, anyway"
''0h, l remember seeing a wizened,
dried-up, red-haired little thing going
into the house."
"But she can't be the brider'
81 thought she was an old maid sis
ter"
nd rIno 20 hot 6o1 bn
has been calling there that is going to
marry herv'
what a shamev'
More wagons from the caterers drove
up, and smooth-shaven. dignified wait
ers in shirt sleeves began bustling
about the sidewalk and the house.
do you suppose they can get any
one to go to the wedding?" asked a
neighbor.
you can see that nobody around here
would CO." replied her companion.
Everybody here is either peeking out
of the windows or walking up and
down the block to get a look at the
house and they wouldn't do that if they
had been invited
'They know better than to invite u.s.
| Sdlu the IlrSC.
Il should say so,' replied her COM
panion. 81 suppose they will try to
make those walters pass as guests
among strangers
'"They are great deal sweller looking
than any one they know" rejoined the
first.
Darkness came, and a band, and
flood of carriages that blocked the
street, and a flock of carriage callers
whose voices filled the air.
'"Two forty-nine! two forty-niner'
cried leather-lunged youth, running
down the street.
1.-THE ideav' exclaimed a neighbor
''There are not fifteen carriages here,
and they are pretending that there are
hundreds
''They have only tickets with high
numbers" said her companion. "What
fraud! They ought to be ashamed.
The bride was driven away In a snow
er of rice, the carriages and wa tiers
gradually disappeared, and the neigh
bors turned reluctantly from their win
dows, tired but happy.
"How glad her parents must be to
have really got rid of her." they said.
"Yes," replied their companions, 'and
how surprised she must be to have ac-
| tually caught a man. l wonder how
she did it."-New York Sun.