Middletown transcript., 1906-04-14

He lives there and We may ask
the favor Of having the sirimony
performed at your house if agree
able. II will be as He wishes my
feeling being that it is honor to
iobey the wishes Of the man of
ones choice
lie whom ad0hr
My law shall he,
His wish my own,
And thus forever happy we.
(nrigina)
You see | 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. Putfer
when | handed the letter back to
her. Soon as read that letter /
changed my mind about her bein
one nf your fat, comfortable old
ladies content to- rock and eat and
sleep and gable. Them kind
don't drop into poetry nor fall in
love along tuWurd seventy not
on your life they don't But l
really WASH t prepared to see such
a sight as Aunt Perliny was when
met her at the train, with her
red-velvet cape and her beads
fairly rattlin' and her black false
front slipped away over toward
one ear, and her rainbow hat
toppled over toward the other
ear, and her false teeth such a
bad fit you could of run a 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
If ever a body showed by their |
looks that they was happin a no.
surrender flag in the face of old |
age Aunt Perliny was that mis-
guided human critter She even |
tried to laugh like young girl,
and it was enough to freeze the
blood in a body veins TO hear her.
Shed caught on to this silly high
hand shake, and she came at US
with her hand on a level with
her totterin' hat. | reckon she
thought that would be shown US
that she was up TO city ways.
After poor little Puffer had al
most stood on tiptoe to reach her
hand, for she was IL head taller
than hin, she turned to me and
says:
An is this my niece Susy?
Think of callin me 'Susy' me
close on to sixty and weighing a
hundred and eighty four! Well,
if the word 'kittenish' ever ap-
piled to any woman it applied to
our Aunt Perliny, and kitten
ish woman of sixty four is enough
to make sensible person either
swear or weep or turn sick to
ones stummick. Puffer done
the first and l done the last that
day. And reckon her beau felt ,
like doin' all three when his gaze .
rested on her for the first time. i,
Ever hear of mattermonial bu-
reau or agency?
Oh, yes. l am sorry to say
that such things are permitted 4
by law, Mrs. Puffer. d
They shouldn't t be, ma am. And t
these mattermonial advertise I!
ment papers ought to be run out !,
along with the bureau they rep
resent. Iain't one that feels that S
weak minded people should be b
to make fools o their. I
selves, if they want to, speslhy :,
when it comes to the young. A
They ought TO be protected from c
heir own foolishness in the in s.
,erest of good morals. Don't you v
,hink SO? : :
Indeed, l do. =,
Even a silly old body like A ant Il
oerl!ny oughtn't to be allowed to v
make d fool of herself by law a
when public morals is affected by Z
Ter doing SO. But LII be standin' r.
IN a wash-tub givin' out hymn fc
m preachin' reg'lar sermon if G
amt headed off pretty soon. u
When | started out TO say was re
hat our. Aunt Perliny had got nj
lold O one O these matrimonial n
ldvertising sheets called Wed a
ling Chimes and. had got to cor a
with a man advertisin :
or a wife, an the upshot of it all
vas that they had become en-
'aged, And her sixty four! {