Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1910-05-18
SHOWING THE ALBUM
The Old Plush Volume Pictured
the Family History.
A TREAT FOR THE VISITOR

She Learned All About the Twins ana
Aunt James Little Love Affair and
Sister oertie's Marrow Escape and a
Whole Lot More Besides.
fesm. that's my marriage certif-
cate. and them pictures pasted on IL
IS me and pa the day we was married
NO. be wasn't sick, but he was SD
scared IL made him look peaked. Do
you Ike TO look at Photographers Most
everybody does. I guess. Wait till I
get the album. Yes. IL Is kind of 4,
pretty coyer-real plushs got Il OF n
book peddler lady-dollar down and 80
cents n month.
Them'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 IL. not To
know whether your own husband Is
one twin or the otheri One OF them
died when he was sixteen. and that
broke the set think II is the sweet.
est picture In the album. they look So
simple and harmless. Just like two III.
tie calves. Gran'ma Jones used e.
make their clothes herself You'd nev
er guess II. would your She used to
lay the cloth In two thicknesses aud
cut out two suits nj once. - one OF
them had been a girl she couldn't have
done H. Turn over the page
That's the gentleman Aunt Jnnc
nearly married. He looks like col
IaUn hAe
refined and meek and SO eloquent M
prayer meeting But he wasn't n PRO
fessor; he peddled Grigg's infallihle
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 10
marry him. She was forty. and she
usually got what she wanted, and ev-
erybody said Il 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. lie
went back 10 Massachusetts the next
day and died peaceful. Turn over
the page.
That's my sister Gertie and bass
singer we used 10 have In the choir
: His name was Spung - Launcelot
Spung-and he was barber by pro-
fession. Him and Gertie was engaged
for six weeks. but she found out he
had n 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 II you
could have heard him sing. Amt IL
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 enga ged 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 OF with cattle
buyer and got married. but that
wasn't until FIVE years after this pic
.ure was took. She had a lovely char
acter-so light and playful and that
fond OF handsome clothes. l remem-
Der the day she had that picture took
She'd been TO picnic with travel
Ing gentleman from Cincinnati and
got engaged 10 him. helped her
uktu the very ndt sue hdS Oh. III
was a green straw with roses. one red
and one blue and one yellow. II
matched her complexion lovely. She
was a dark blond 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
sweet7 The basket wasn't hers. IL
belonged to the man that took the
picture. Neither was the curls all
hers, though they didn't belong to the
Photograph man. I've got them now
laid away TIL they come IN handy 1
tell pa it's a pity u amt mans hair
stead Of lady's. and then he could
wear Il. Badness seems to run In
his family. His father was so mld
that he never used brush and comI
for forty-two years: used To comb his
hair with 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 n great
one for society. Turn over the page
Ellis Parker Butler In Reader.