Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1909-01-03

hostess looked more beautiful and
winsome than ever. MS with naive
grace and charming vivacity she pro.
| posed the following toast:
Dear friends. wedding there will be:
A wedding when the old year turns TO
/ new
And the bride ell-let us see'
! Dost see thing suggestive?
Dost see a blushing face?
Just cast your eyes about YOU.
Now who will tit the case?
She stands queen among YOU.
/ Her hazel eyes cast down,
/ And her cheeks in pink do rival
The hue of her pink gown
! Swccthearts. shes mad a dozen
! And dozen more | know
I Would at her shrine have worshipped
/ Now sadly turn and go
one true blue heart she's captured.
/ While hers beats just as true
! And the love they've pledged togeth.
er
Tho old Is ever new,
She will change her name to Astn
She round another home;
Her heart is where her thoughts are,
And that is where she'l roam
So friends, come lift your glasses
In accord with me
a health to the sweetest aud faircst
of brdes.to.be
And health TO her prince charming
Him, We cannot forget,
Twas Il day of Joy and sadness
When Nina and Roger met"
In response 10 this beautiful scnu.
ment, the nonorce. Miss Nina Heard,
stepped forward, her blonde beauty
enhanced by the silkcu gown of
crushed roses. she gave expression
10 this beautiful thought:
What can | say in response to
such words of praise and love? Tru.
lN love has cnNoloped me with its
warm cheering mantle and | would
tain caross the hand that folds 1t SO
tcnderlv and securely about me.
Friends are gold and their radiance
has lighted the pathway of my child
hood and girlhood and rndiantly
crowned womanhood with a diadem
OF priceless value Now to each
'Nt'N '.A W. 'Nlllll llN liltllUN
accent my teudcrest. my choicest
regards, for your loving favor has
kept restrained and impclled my
feet into sunlit paths, perfmed
with Gods rarcsl flowers YOu have
made for me cloudless deep blue
sky, hung with a thousand priceless
gems; and as lifc's path widens and
mergos into he broad complete way
their light WI, shine with the glory |
OF a blessed bvnedictiOn. Now it is
not good bye dear friends. but good |
morrow, and may your lives be as |
secure and as Joyous as YOU have
made mine.
rs all forgot? All school DAYS
friendship, childhood. innocence. Has !
friendship such faint milky test? |
1t turns IN .css than two nights?
Lets NIL and drink to love. faith aud !
consistency aud to her, the friend of |
my life. We still have slept togeth. |
er; rose at an instant, learned. play. |
ed. ate together and wherever we |
went like Iunos swans still we
went coupled inseperable.
Mrs. Jules Wilkerson of Beau. !
mont. cousin TO the hostess and bride |
elect, in her usual wit and innate |
grace. in the following words ex.
pressed her approval of the union of
the hearts of Miss Nina Heard of
This city and MIR. Roger Astin of
Bryan
She has had beauX and beauX, as ev.
cry one knows,
And in this with me you'll agree
If she'd looked the world over
For a better lover
None better would she find than no.
Some wiser heads than ours often
wag
When a girl says she will marry,
And they say there are still big fish
at sea,
And beg YOU while to tarry.
But you fnow how the rose buds and
blooms,
And we pluck 1t and call it our own.
But roses will fade and so will the
maid
Who lives too long alone
So | welcome you to the married
fraternity
And to south Texas. too,
May all the glad dreams that Won
have dreamed
In I'll your life come rue
Wa every good there is in life
step down from the years to you.
Another happy surprise was n
nissive read by Mrs. Howell f.
Smith, an invitation in original verse
yom the breezy pen of Mrs. ]. L.
Fveioy, to an ante-nuptial shower
her home Jan. 5th, in honor of
hss Heard
VArter adiourning to the parlors |
n popular game of 500 was played