Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-28
SHOWING THE ALBUM.
The Old Plush Volume Pictured the
Family History.


Family History.
YeS'm, that's nay marriage cert1n-
cate, and them pictures pasted on It
Is me and pa the day we was married
No, he wasn't gick, but he was 30
scared it made him look peaked. Do
you Like to look at photographs? Most
everybody does, I guess. Wait till I
get the album. Yes, it Is kind Of a
pretty cover-reaI plush. I got It of a
book peddler lady-dollar down and so
cents a month.
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 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 a 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 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 be 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 q barber by pro-
fession Him and Gertie was engaged
for six weeks, but she found out he
had a wife and six children at Boston,
so she didn't marry him. He was the
sweetest singer! You'd never imagine
he had a 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 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 Eve years after this pic
ture was took. She had a lovely char
acter-so light and playful and that
fond of handsome clothes. remem-
Der the day she had that picture took.
She'd been to a picnic with a travel
ing gentleman from Cincinnati and
got engaged to him. I helped her
trim the very hat she has on. It
was a green straw with roses, one red
and one blue and one yellow. 1t
matched her complexion lovely. She
was q 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. 1t
belonged 10 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. 1
tell pa it's a pity it amt mans hair
H.
wear II. Badness seems to run in
his family. His father was so bald
that he never used q brush and comb
for forty-two years; used to comb his
hair with a 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