The Paonia newspaper., 1910-09-30
Little Brothers, S
Story

MOtner and Mar1Ortes been work
ing for two months over this wedding
Now. It's all over before ten o'clock!
That's quick, isn't II. after such a big
lot OF work?
I'm thinking I won't have much OF
y soft snap tomorrow. You know that
ponfetti won't sweep up just ordinary.
IT'S To be picked up every bit Of 1t sep
arafe. I'm dead sure that job1l be
stuck on me in the morning. Gee,
I'm glad most of the confettfs out
pn the porch instead of in on the car
pet,
Those folks livin' next door aren't
In the habit of sittin' outside nights
But d'you see them tonight? Porch
Just packed full's can be,
Guess well miss Marjorie, all right
At first Wen just think she's away Wis
ftin' somewhere. but soon well get it
straight into our heads that she's
gone. Then Wen miss her good. Wen
miss her from the table. She always
tut the pie so big.
DO you know what mothers goin'
20 do with all that linen on the stairs
tonight? She's going to cut 1t up into
dish towels. Wen have a lot. won't
WEI We won't have to wash EN-
out after every meal any more, Gee,
Don't you hate to wash dish towels
They always smell so smelly.
Il guess mothers good and tired to-
night I wonder II those caterer men
will go and leave everything all
mussed up. hope they don't. Gee,
II they do mother'll be Strengthening
things early in the morning and wake
ans kids up to help her
Don't you wish flowers didn't with
cr so quick? They cost such an awful
lot, Besuts. though. weren't they
Daddy says he don't see how he's ever
Soin' to pay for everything. don't
Gee why folks don't use hat flowers.
anyway-you know the kind OF stun
] mean
That vas swell sermon the min
lister preached over Jim and Marjorie.
wasn't it, Nearly as good as to a
funeral | never was at funeral. but
you know how they are.
Mother said-before all the people
came-that 1t had Eot to be happy
smiling wedding or none, She said
h anybody cried they'd be put straight
out Marjorie said she just knew
somebody's be sure 20 cry. Gee, |
wanted to cry when the Minister be-
Ean-and ! guess would. only saw
mothers eye on me-
Mari never expected TO see Miss
Hughes tonight She eloped-'nd then
ehe got back here In time for Mar
Jorie's wedding. guess it's better
70 elope. Then nobody's got to get
ready so much.
Mari and Jim had a fierce time try
In To get out of the house tonight
They kinda suspected that the fellows
would be up - some tricks with their
grips and things. SO they made me
take care OF them out In the barn
Jim gave me n dollar for it-a silver
dollar, Host as much. ! guess. as he
gtve the preacher
4 wasn't so dead crazy about stay
Ing out in the barn by myself an look
In after those grips. The other kids
vas all in the kitchen ,ckfn' the ice
cream on the saucers and hoggtn' all
The cake that was left. never thinkin'
Di me.
1t didn't do Jim much good givin'
me that dollar. though. cause a bunch
pf big fellows that 20 with Jim came
into the barn and bust open the grips
-Marjories and Jim's-and mixed
everything all together. Spilled the
talcum powder and the tooth powder
over everything and smeared the
fronts of Jim's hard. boiled shirts with
sisters nail polish. the sticky red kind.
you know