The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1910-04-13
SHOWING THE ALBUM
The Old Plush Volume Pictured
the Family History.
A TREAT FOR THE VISITOR.

She Learned All About the Twins and
Aunt James Little Love Affair and
Sister Gertie's Narrow Escape and .
Whole Lot More Besides.
Yes'm. that's my marriage certif-
cate, and them pictures pasted on II
is me and pa the day we was married
No. he wasn't sick, but he was so
scared it made him look peaked. Do
you Ike to look at photographs? Most
everybody does. guess Wait till
get the album. Yes. it is kind of a
pretty cover-real plush. l got it of
book peddier lady-dollar down and 80
cents 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 1t, 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 lit
tie calves. Gran'ma Jones used TO
make their clothes herself 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 ii. Turn over the page.
That's the gentleman Aunt Jane
nearly married. He looks like a col
lege professor. don't he? He was so
refined and meek aud so eloquent at
prayer meeting. But he wasn't a pro-
fessor; he peddled Grigg's infallible
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 to
marry him. She was forty, and she |
usually got what she wanted, and ev-
erybOdy said it was a 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 Massachusetts 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 - Launcelot |
Spung-and he was barber by pro- |
fession. Him and Gertie was engaged |
for six weeks. but she found out be
had 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 1t
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 engaged to
anybody else for long time. and you
know what that means for a 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 pic
ture was took. She had a lovely char
acter-so light and playful and that
fond Of handsome clothes. l remem-
Der the day she Lad that picture took.
Shed been to a picnic with travel
ing gentleman from Cincinnati and
got engaged to him. l helped her
trim the very hat she has on. 1t
was a green straw with roses, one red
and one blue and one yellow. 1t
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
sweet? The basket wasn't hers. 1t
belonged to the man that took the
picture 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. |
tell pa it's a pity it amt mans hair
stead of lady's. and then he could
wear it. Badness seems to run in
his family. His father was so bald
that he never used brush and comb
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 a great
one for society. Turn over the page
Ellis Parker Butler in Reader.