The Greeley tribune., 1910-06-09
SHOWING THE ALBUM
The Old Plush Volume Pictured
the Family history.
A TREAT FOR THE VISITOR.

sh, Learned All About ehs r~ins and
Aunt Jans's Little ls~e Affair and
Sister Gsrtis's Narrsw Escape aNd .
Whole Lot Mees oseiDes
Yes'm. that's my mArriage csrtid-
cate. and them picturss pasted on 1t
IL me and pa the day ~ Was married.
No, he wasn't sick. but he was -
scared IL made him look peaked. DO
you Ike to look at photoua phs7 Most
everybody does. guess. Wait till !
get the album. Yea. It b kind VI Z
pretty eover-real plush got It Oh \
book peddler lady dollar down and 50
cents q month.
Them's twins. ThstO vas two Of
them. They looked just IKE yoa see
them there. One Of thsm is my hus-
band. but nobody eaA I'll which be
Il now. Sort Of creepy. alnt It, not to
know whether your own husband y
one twin or the other! One Of them
died when he was aixteen, and that
broke the set think e = the sweet.
est picture in the album. they look 70
simple and harmless. juse IKE two it,
tie calves. Gran'ma Je1es used to
make their clothes heroelf. You'd nev.
er guess It, would you? Dhe used to
lay the cloth in two thicknesses and
cut out two suits at once. IL one Of
them had been girl she couldn't have
done 1t. Turn over the page
That's the gentleman Aunt jane
nearly married. He looks like . col
lege professor. don't hef h. was 30
refined and meek and 20 eloquent at
prayer meeting. But he wasn't a pro-
fessor: he peddled GriEG'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 . thousand
chances to one that she woald get him
But just when Aunt Jane was sure
she had him he got wind Of it He
went back to Massac husetto the next
day and died peaceful. Turn over
the page.
That's my sister Gertie and 4 bass
singer we used to have In the choir.
His name was Spung - Launcelot
Spung-and be was 4 barber BY pro-
fession. Him and Gertie was engaged
for six weeks. but she found out be
had 4 wife and six children at Boston.
20 she didn't marry him. Ne was the
sweetest singer. You'd never imagine
be had . wife and six ehil1sel II yOa
could have beard him sin Amt u
awful how sintnl people 4 - - Ara
yet look - innocentl GN 20
awful when she heard ~ Act 6Hcet
him. and she wouldn't ct ennhpsd .
anybody else for . Ioag time. - you
know what that means for 3 choir
singer Turn over ~ page
Eue Hartwick that Il, one OF ~ old
siri chums. She ran o0 with cattle
buyer and got married, bu& that
wasn't until Ave pears after u pic
ture was took shc hnd q lovely char
acter-so light and playful as1 that
fond OF handsome clothes I Semem-
Der the day she hsd that pictne took
Shed been to q picnic with q travel
Ing gentleman from Cincinnall and
got engaged to him. I helpp1 her
trim the very hat she has .. II
was green straw with Poses, - red
and one blue and one yellow. II
matched her complexion lovely. She
was dark blond with red hair. Oh.
yes. she always smiled that way on
account OF one front tooth heinR out.
Turn over the page.
That's my Aunt Phoebe by marriage
the day she was married Ain't she
sweet? The basket wasn't hers. Ii
belonged to the man that took the
picture. Neither was the cuyis all
hers. though they didn't belong to the
photograph man. I've got then now
laid away TIL they come In handy. !
tell pa it's pity 1t amt mans hair
stead OF ladys. and then he could
wear 1t. Badness seems TO run In
his family. His father was se bald
that he never used brush and comb
FOR forty-two years: used to comb his
hair with n flannel rag. That dress
OF Aunt Phoehe's is the lowest pecketi
anybody on either side Of our family
ever had. but then she was a great
one for society. Turn over the page
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