The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-10-12
THE FAMILY ALBUM
Its Contents Identified for a Visitor
in the Same Old Way.
(The American.)

Yes'm, that's my marriage certiff.
cate, and them pictures pasted on il
is me and pa the day we were mar.
ried. No, he wasn't sick, but he was
so scared it made him look peaked
Do you like to look at photographs
Most everybody does. guess. Wait
till / get the album. Yes, it is kind OF
a pretty cover. Red plush. | got it
OF book peddler lady, dollar down
and so cents month.
Them's twins; there was two OF
them. They looked just like you see
them there. One of them is my nus
band, but nobody can tell which he is
now. Sort of creepy, amt it, not to
know whether your own husband is
one win or the other? One Of them
died when he was 1s, and that broke
the set. think 1t is the sweetest
picture in the album; they look so
simple and harmless, just like two lit
tie calves. Gran'nla Jones used TO
make their clothes heTself-you'd new
err guess it. would yon? She used to
lay the cloth in two thicknesses and
cut out two suits at once. If one of
them had been a girl she couldn't
have done it, Turn over the page.
That's the gentleman Aunt Jane
nearly married He looks like col
lege professor, don't he? He was so
refined and meek and SO eloquent at
prayer meeting But he wasn't a pro-
fessor, he peddled Grigg's Infallible
Cure for Hog Cholera and lectured
on Temperance He was awful poor
in his health, and the minute Aunt
Jane set eyes on him she made up her
mind to marry him. She was 30 and
she usually got what she wanted, and
everybody said it was thousand
10 one that she would get him.
But just when Aunt Jane was sure
she had him ne got wind of IT, He
went back TO Massachusetts the next
day and died a peaceful death. Turn.
over the page.
That's my sister Gertie and a bass
singer we used to have in the choir.
His name was Spung-Launcelet
Spung- and he was barber by pro-
fession. Him and Gertie was engaged
for six weeks, but she found out he
had a wife and six children at Boston,
so she didn't marry him. He was the
sweetest singerl You'd never imag-
inc he had a wife end six children if
you could have heard him sing. Amt
it awful how sinful people can be and
yet look so innocent? Gertie took on
awful when she heard the facts about
him and she wouldn't get engaged
to anybody else for a. long time; and
you know what that means for a
choir singer Turn over the page.
Sue Hartwick that is, one of my old
girl chums. She run off with a cattle
buyer and got married, but that wasn't
until five years after this picture was
ook. She had a lovely characters
light and playful. and that fondness
If handsome clothes! I remember the
lay she had that picture took. She'd
been to picnic with travelling gem
.leman from Cincinnati and got en-
gagged to him. / helped her trim her
lat she has on. 1t was a green straw
With roses, one red and one blue and
me yellow. She was a dark blond
With red hair. oh, yes, she always
smiled that way on account of one of
Ter front teeth being out. Turn over
he page.
That's my Aunt Phoebe. by mar
iage, the day she was married. Amt
he sweet? The basket wasn't hers,
t belonged to the man that took the
,icture Neither was the curls all
lers, though they didn't belong to the
man. I've got them now,
aid away till they come in handy.
ell pa, its a pity it amt mans hair,
stead of lady's hair and then he
ould wear it. Badness seems to run
n his family His father was so bald
hat he never used a comb and brush
or AZ years-used to comb his hair
With a flannel rag. That dress of
Aunt Phoebes is the lowest necked
nybody on either side of our family
yer had. but then she was a great one
or society. Turn over the page.