The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-05-13
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 Marrow Escape and
Whole Lot More Besides.
Yes'm, that's my marriage certifi-
cate, and them pictures pasted on 1t
is me and pa the day we was married.
No. he wasn't sick, but he was SO
scared 1t made him look peaked. Do
you like to look at photographs? Most
everybody does, l guess. Wait till l
get the album. Yes, 1t is kind Of
pretty cover-real plush. l got it off
book peddler 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 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. / think 1t 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 nev-
er guess 1t, 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, don't he? He was so
refined and meek and so eloquent at
prayer meeting. But he wasn't a pro-
fessor; he peddled Grigg's infallibe
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 1t. He
went back to Massachusetts, the next
day and died peaceful. Turn over
the page. i
That's my sister Gertie and 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 he
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 it
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 choir
singer. Turn over the page.
Sue Hartwick that is, one Of my old |
girl chums. She ran off with cattle
buyer and got married, but that
wasn't until FIVE years after this pic
ture was took. She had lovely char
acter-so light and playful and that |
fond Of handsome clothes. | remem- |
Der the day she had that picture took. |
Shed been to picnic with travel
ing gentleman from Cincinnati and |
got engaged to him. l 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 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
photograph man. I've got them now
laid away till they come in handy.
tell pa it's pity it amt mans hair
stead Of lady's. and then he could
wear 1t. 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 great
one for society. Turn over the page
Ellis Parker Butler in Reader,