Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-21

diary, the day book of our matrimonial
| firm.
Accordingly, after we had washed the
dishes together Darby cut out the first few
dozen used pages and every twentieth page
after that TO allow of inserting newspaper
cuttings and pictures, while | ransacked
writing desk and albums for matter for
the preliminary two pages-the preface to
our life journey together as 1t Were-and
for the first page, the wedding page"
The book lies before ME l write. The
outside leather cover bears in ornamental
lettering the title "A Pilgrims Progress"
the fly leaf is inscribed in ornamental India
ink lettering:
PILGRIMAGE OF DARBY AND JOAN,
1S85-1905."
| Upon the preface page is a picture of
the garden in which Darby played, a
very small boy, faded photograph of
him as a long-robed baby on his mothers
| lap. a copy of the tiny newspaper edited
by himself and two small boy chums, and
an Anticipated print, cut from local paper.
! of the military school parade with Darby
! in the foreground.
| On the opposite page is a tintype of Joan
at the tender age of four, lovingly clasp
| ing ner favorite dolly. a newspaper cut
| ting describing the graduation exercises at
Nine. Boulton's school in which Joan shone
! as valedictorian and the program of the
first concert to which she went with Darby.
| The next page-the wedding day page
! holds a bit of silk from Joans wedding
| gown and a tiny spriS of maidenhair fern
|
| ding cards, the newspaper wedding notice,
| the railway time table by which we tripped
| it to Niagara, some lovely photographs of
| the falls and the letter heading of the
hotel at which we stopped.
Then comes the neatly drawn floor plan
| of the tiny fiat in which we first went to
housekeeping, with all the different articles
of furniture properly located; pictures cut,
| in the absence of camera and consequent
photographs from an old Illustrated article
describing Brooklyn Heights. of streets and
buildings in the immediate neighborhood.
passed and repassed on many happy walks
| together. and so on.
Such is our book; to both of us-and to
| our chidren-full of a never failing inter-
| est teeming with associations funny, SEN
| timental and pathetic, and alive with recol-
| lections of the honeymoon year in the first
| tiny fiat and the nineteen happy busy years
| succeeding it.-From an exchange.
| The Rev and Mrs Roland Cotton Smith
and their family are at Ipswich, where Mrs
| Smith will be near her mother. Mrs. Will
| liam ]. Otis, whose summer home is al
| Nahant, Mass.
| Miss Minetree of this city is visiting
friends in Norfolk
Miss Louise Foraker of Washington. who
! has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Fran
| els King Wainwright, at Bryn Mawr. Pa.
| through the early summer. will accompany
| her to Northeast Harbor, Me-, next week.
Mr. and Mrs Douglas Robinson. who
have been at Overlook. their country place
| in Orange. N. j., since returning from
| Europe. left yesterday for the Robinson
| homestead. Henderson House, near Her
/ ktmer, N. Y.
The Bolivian minister and Nine. Calderon
and their daughter, Miss Calderon. left
| Washington Friday for New York. on their
way to the Catskills. where they will spend
the rest of the summer
Miss Julia Kaufman of Norfolk, Va, who
| mas been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
| Slgmund. left town on Monday for Allan
! TIC city, with Mrs. Charles Kaufman and
MRS Fannie Levy. and Is staying at the
| Hotel Rudolf.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Beekman and family
are in Atlantic City for the summer
| Mrs Joseph Abel and son, Joseph, left
town on Wednesday. to spend several