Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-05

one 0d1lQeQ lSICSl WilIISl 1olS-
pink note-paper with blue ruling. At the
top of the sheet was stamped a pair of
blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow.
An odor of musk 'oeted my nostrils as
she handed me the ,,heet of paper. Mrs.
Puffer gave little sniff and made feint
of holding her nose while she said:
I'D as soon scent things with Limbur-
ger cheese as with musk. No wonder
she'd never got married if she'd used musk
all her life!"
A glance at the letter revealed the fact
that it had been written by a somewhat
iliterate person.
1t read as follows:
My DEAR NEPHEW take my pen in hand
to wright you few lines to say that / am well
and hope you are injoying the same Blessing.
| desire also to informe you that l expect to
make you a VISIT next week leavin here at
ten in the morning and thankful to have
you meet me at the trane there.
Well, you will be numbering why /
coming so far from home and | suppose you
will be surprised to know that Matrimony is
the cause. Yes, my dear neffew, strange
as it may appeer, your ant is about to enter
the marriage Relation with she has
learned to love, respeck, and admire and
also of some means. Well, so it is, but of
this more anon and later when l see you. l
can tell the full particulars better than l can
write them, suffshent to write say that /
very happy in His affeckshun. Well, He lives
there and We may ask the favor of having
the sirinony performed at your house if agree
able. 1t will be as He wishes my feeling
being that it is honor to obey the wishes
of the man of ones choice
He whom adoor
Ny law shall be,
His wish my own,
And thus forever happy we.
(originaD
You see l still rhyme some on OCCASION and
what occasion SO appropriate as this? So for
the present no more from
Your ANT PERTLINA MooNE
And her sixty-four when she wrote
that!' said Mrs. Puffer when I handed
the letter back to her. Soon as l read
that letter l changed my mind about
her bein' one O. your fat, comfortable old
ladies content to rock an eat an sleep an
gable. Them kind don't drop into
poetry nor fall in love along toward
seventy-not on your life they dontl
But | really wa mt prepared to see such
sight as Aunt Perliny was when l met
her at the train, with her red-velvet cape
ana llel DeduS Idl1ly IdtLun anu nel
black false front slipped away over toward
one ear, and her rainbow hat toppled over
toward the other ear, and her false teeth
such bad fit you could of run knife
blade between her upper teeth and her
gum. and the red paint a good deal
thicker on one cheek than it was on the
other-poor old soul!
q If ever body showed by their looks
that they was fappin' a no-surrender
flag in the face of old age Aunt Perliny
was that misguided human critter. She
even tried to laugh like young girl, an
it was enough to freeze the blood in
bodys veins to hear her. She'd caught
on to this silly highland shake, an she
come at us with her hand on a level with
her totterin' hat. l reckon she thought
that would be shown US that she was
up to city ways. After poor little Puffer
had almost stood on tiptoe to reach
her hand, for she was head taller than
him, she turned to me and saws:
- An is this my niece Susy?'
Think O. calm me 'SuSy' me close