The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-06

and uncle, the LeWlses, gave
the infare. Captain Lewis was Will
liam's guardian, so the pair regarded
him as sort of elder son, and did for
him exactly what they would have
done for a child of their own
Etymologically, the infare describes
itSelf-it is the going in of a bride to
her new family. Some folks wondered
little that William did not choose to
4 have his upon his own place. Hadn't he
a house fully furnished, even to spoons
and such matters. to say nothing of
half a dozen likely negroes? But
most agreed that he had done just
I right. 1t would have hurt his, Aunt
Martha's feelings if she had not been
+ allowed to give the feast of welcome
to her new niece.
Most infares came off by daylight,
and then they were big and tumultu-
Gus dinners to- yardful of folk, who
ate i'll relays. But because the bride
lived twenty miles off, this one came
off at night Therefore, Mrs. Lewis
was doub1y anxious to have it out
match the glories of the wedding.
There Were Lashins
of Good Things
to Eat and Drink
She did not go to the wedding, but
Captain Lewis did, starting home some
time after midnight, and getting there
to late breakfast. Thus he was able
to tell his wife, in laundering mas
culine way, about the brides dress and
her dowry-above all, about the supper
table. There had been no big crowd,
he said, only folk within five miles
had been invited. Lashins to eat and
drink, though; and if the old man had
been gruff enough, he was doing
good part by Billy and Susanna. The
girl would not come riding behind
Billy on a pillion, as many brides did.
She had her own horse and saddle,
and likely negro girl, who would
also come along, mounted on the
brood mare that was another part
the dowry.
Mrs. Lewis was glad to hear all this.
There was, however, a certain emulous
triumph behind the gladness. Not for
naught had she been fixing for week,
aided and abetted by the three best
cake-bakers in the neighborhood.
D., Moreover, Miss Maria Partillo, who
WAS genius with the scissors, had
spent a whole day cutting paper lace
and leaves and flowers to trim the
supper table. The flowers were cut
from foolscap, with a few precious
ones from a sheet of red paper which
\ Miss Maria had been treasuring
against Just such a time. She had
insisted upon lending all her glass and
pewter and silver, not to name plates
and dishes. Mrs. Lewis could never
have brought herself to ask that-the
Partillo things we're so fine-although
she had not the least scruple against
laying other neighbors under tribute.
Indeed, lending and borrowing for
such occasions were so much matters
of course that almost anybody who
had been left out would have felt it
pointed slight.
It Took Three Days
Just to Get Ready
for the Infare
So, for three days back, black men
and women had been walking UP to
the Lewis house with baskets care
fully balanced upon their heads. In
side the baskets all manner of ware
was snugly packed. Nearly every one
had also from two to four tall brass
candlesticks, rubbed until they shone
like gold.
All the pewter had been likewise
newly rubbed, although its owners
knew that Mrs. Lewis would have it
rubbed again just before it went on
the table They did not blame her---it
furnished so quickly; besides, PUSHES
were plenty in the Lewis spring
branch, and nobody could use them
so as to get quite such shine on
pewter as Aunt Ailsa, the Lewis cook.
1t was reassuring to remember all
that, and still more so to have three
neighboring housewives ride in, each
q bringing along her cook or housemaid.
{ while still Captain Lewis was at table.
But the best of all came later, in the
shape of Miss Maria Partillo herself,
who drove UP in her gig as early as
twelve o'clock, with her maid, black
Betty, at her elbow. More than that,
she fetched along a wonderful cake OF
her own baking, iced in lattice work,
and with deep icing fringe all round.
IT'S the bridegroom's, she said,
nodding her head and taking off her
best cap as she spoke. 81 don't care
I if they had brides cake or not at the
wedding; Billy shall have this; and !
baked ring and darning needle and
a thimble and silver plcayune IN IT.
to be cut for. Susanna? If Susanna
don't like it, she amt half good enough
for Billy"
. They Cooked Everything
Outdoors
for the Weather Was Hot
Because the weather was so hot
most of the meat was cooked outdoors
at fire built very far down the yard
The barbecue pit was still farther off
down at the spring, in fact. There
were seven carcasses-three lambs. two
shoats. and a couple of kids, all split
and laid upon clean sticks over glow
inc hardwood Goals. Barbecuing be-
can at daylight, so that the meat, care
fully basted, highly seasoned, brown
and savory, was ready for the trench
ers by shutdown. However, it had to
wait bit. Supper was not served I'M
til eight o'clock.
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