The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-06
: By Sally Cowl.m /:

You felt like you had hand in the mar
ryin' yourself. That's the only time in my
| life ever wished for the vanity of silk
petticoat-the night / switched up that
aisle on that usher's arm. Seems like per-
sons in duty bound to rustic on that sort
of an occasion.
But these ushers hung back by the door,
shown plain enough that they wasn't
goin to waste their efforts on the audience,
but waitin' for the bride.
AT last, when everybody was ready to
jump up and down from pure uneasiness,
a person got up at the piano and began
to sing. She had big mouthful o. teeth,
and she started in low and soft just show
in few of 'em; but all at once, when you
was feelin' the quietin' influence of the
tune, she beilered out so loud that every
one jumped manful. and some held on to
| their chairs. The louder she sang the more
teeth we saw, and nearly every other word
was Fur you-fur you!' all the time glarin'
| at the door as though she dared the bride
| in before she got through.
IT was glad when it was over and we
| heard the hack drive up the road and stop
outside The bride and her matron and
the groom and the matron's husband all
come in 1t. The matron and her husband
amt friends of the bride and groom-that
is not special, but they've been married
| just lately themselves, and are the only
ones In the place that have the proper
clothes to carry it through.
cousin jimmy, you ought to have seen
| them ushers stiffenin' up when they heard
them hack wheels! Ed Musgrove run to
| the door and peeked through a crack Of 1t,
and Henry changed his boquet from one
| hand to the other, as though wonderin
| where 1t looked the best. After little, Ed
Musgrove turned and waved his hand up
| front, and the person who sung went to the
piano and began on the march. 1 know
| there's two or three weddin marches used.
| but never heard any of 'em enough to get
EN- properly sorted in my mind as to name.
But she was playin' at the one that has
| ratty tat-tat one key for few minutes
| before the regular tune begins. You've
| heard 1t. know you have; 1t goes:
Ratty tat-tat ratty tat-tat,
| Diddldy dunn, dunn, dy,
Dunn. dunn, dunn, dy,'
II remember it, cousin, go on
''Well in all my life, cousin, I never see
| any one labor in travail over a duty the
way that woman did, / asked old Mis-
Fanshaw if her sleeves were rolled up, but
she said she couldn't see She ratty tat
tatted on that one key like she was locked
| out in the cold and was knockin' to get in;
and every time she worked up to that high
| dunn she missed her lick and lit in the
wrong tracks. Then, as if mortified at not
maxim good out at the particular places,
she'd sort o calm down and go slow and
feel her way till her courage'd come back,
and. trounce! she'd lope up towards that
| high dunn again and never touch 1t! I
tell you it was painful, cousin.
| '.wel, then the ushers locked arms and
started up the aisle; the groom and the
| matron's husband come next, just fairly
| carryin' each other. The groom looked
| bad. He was about the shade of a cellu-
loid collar-that blue appearance, you know.
| They said he was scared to death, but
| bet he'd had his head out o. the hack win
dow, spittin' blood the whole way over
| he looked it.
Then came the bride and her matron,
lookin, really. very nice-and old Mis- Fan
shaw grabbed my dress and said she could
feel her spell comm on!
| I was mad at her that felt just like
movin my seat and lettin' 1t come 'thout
any help o. mine. for 1 was bound I'd see
the weddin' through; but says:
Just lay back in the chair till they're
married, Mis- Fanshaw, and then I'll get
you out, unnoticed like. Are you noisy In
| em?
Yes, she says, I groan some
"'Well. groan easy, says 1.
But when she found she couldn't get any
| encouragement, she changed her mind and
| never had any more spell than did!
There's people in this life that would in
terrupt the most interestin' occasions to
attract attention to themselves! Now. that
old crone was willin' and anxious to break
up that weddin', just to show what bad fits
she has, and how hard she's takin' it about
| her girl and the Lutheran minister's son,
who was sittin' across the church."
How did the bride act?"
"Oh, she acted embarrassed, but unhesi-
tatin' she spoke her Yes, sir right out loud
mad love on her part; that at one time he'd
| been glad to duck out of it-him bein' in
| such poor health and not able to get in full
time OH his job-but she flung such tan
trums he had. to come back to her,
II hope he loves her, I know she de-
/ serves it,"
II amt sayin he don't love her: / reckon
he loves her much necessary. but his
blood bein' so thin he couldn't be expected
to feel to the depth that she feels to.
There now-wait till 1 empty the pan
and we'll go In the other room-I'll just