The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1906-12-06
THE FAMILY ALBUM.
It's Contents Identified for a Visitor
by One Who Knew.

les m, that's my marriage certificate,
and them pictures pasted on it is me
and pa the day we was married. No,
ne wasn't sick, but he was SO scared
II made him look peaked. Do you like
TO look at photographs? Most every
cody does, | guess. Wait till I get
the album Yes, it is kind Of pref
~ cover. Real plush. | got it off a
BOOK peddler LADY, dollar down and
hfty cents month.
ihem's twins; there was two Of
them. They looked just like you see
them there. One Of them is my hus-
band but nobody can tell which he
is, now. Sort of creepy, amt it, not
to know whether your own husband is
one twin or the other? One of them
died when he was sixteen, and that
broke the set. l think it is the sweet
est picture in the album, they look
SO simple and harmless, just like two
little calves. Gran'ma Jones used to
make their clothes herselt-you'd new
er guess it, would you? She used to
lay the cloth in two thicknesses and
cut out two suits at once. If one of
them had been girl she couldn't have
done it. Turn over the page.
That's the gentleman Aunt Jane
nearly married. He looks like a col
lege professor, he peddled Grigg's In
fallible Cure for Hog Cholera and lect-
ured 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
forty and she usually got what she
wanted, and everybody said it was
thousand chances to one that she
would get him. But just when Aunt
Jane was sure she had him he got
wind of it. He went back to Massachu-
sets the next day and died peaceful.
Turn over the page.
That's my sister Gertie and a bass
singer we used to have in the choir.
His name was Spung-Lancelot Spung
and he was barber by profession.
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 singer! You'd never imagine
he had wife and 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 akol
him and she wouldn't get engaged to
anybody else for long time; and you
know what that means for choir
singer. Turn over the page.
Sue Hartwick, that is, one of my
old girl chums. She ran off with a
cattle buyer and got married, but that
wasn't until five years after this picture
was took. She had a lovely character
so light and playful, and that fond
of handsome clothes! l remember the
day she had that picture took. She'd
been to a picnic with a travelling gen.
tleman from Cincinnati and got engag-
ed to him. helped her trim the very
hat she has on. 1t was green straw
with roses, one red and one blue, and
one yellow. 1t matched her COM
plexion lovely. She was dark blonde
with red hair. Oh, yes, she always
smiled that way on account of one
front tooth being out. Turn over the
page.
That's my Aunt Phoebe, by marriage,
the day she was married. Amt she
sweet? The basket wasn't hers, it be-
longed to the man that took the pic
ture. Neither was the curls all hers
though they didn't belong to the
man. I've got them now,
laid away till they come in handy. I
tell pa it's pity it amt mans hair,
stead of lady's, and then he could wear
it. Badness seems to run in his fam
lily. His father was so bald that
he never used brush and comb for
~ years-used to comb his hair with
a flannel rag. That dress. of Aunt
Phoebe's is the lowest necked anybody
on either side of our family ever had,
but then she was great one for So
ciety. Turn over the page.-Ellis Par
ker Butler, in The Reader.