The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 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 a
Whole Lot More Besides.

Wnole LOt WORE bcStdcS.
Yes'm. that's my marriage certifi-
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 1t made him lock peaked. De
you like to look at photographs? Most
everybody does. guess. Wait till
get the album. Yes. 1t is kind of a
pretty cover-real plush. l got II off Il
book peddler lady--dollar down and st
cents a 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 &c
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 sc
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 ut once. II one OF
them had been n girl she couldn't hav,
done It, Turn over the page.
That's the gentleman Aunt Jane
nearly married He looks like IL col
lcge professor. don't he? He was Sc
refined and meek and SO eloquent al
prayer meeting. But he wasn't pro
fessor; he peddled Grigg's infallible
cure for hog cholera and lectured OF
temperance He was awful poor In his
health. and the minute Aunt Jane SET
eyes on him she made up her mind IL
marry him She was forty, and she
usually got what she wanted, and ev.
erybody said II was a thousand
chances TO one that she would get him
But just when Aunt Jane WIS sure
she had him lie got wind of 1t. He
went back TO Massachusetts the next
day and died peaceful Turn over
the page,
That's my sister Gertie and n bass
singer we used TO have In the choir
Ills name was Spung - Launceloi
Spung-nnd he was barber by pro
fession. Hin and Geriie was engaged
for six weeks but she found out ht
had wife and six children at Boston
so she didn't marry him. lie was thu
sweetest singer. You'd never imagin,
he had wife and six children II 20,
could have heard him sing. Amt /
awful how sinful people can be ant
yet look so innocent? Gertie took oi
awful when she heard the facts abou
| him, and she wouldn't get engaged [,
anybody else for n long time. and yo'
| know what that means for choi
singer. Turn over the page
| Sue Hartwick that IL, one Of my OLE
girl chums She ran off with cattl'
buyer and got married but tina
wasn't until five years after this pie
ture was took. She had lovely char
acter-so light and playful and thai
fond OF handsome clothes. | remcm
Der the day she had that picture took
She'd been to Il picnic with n travel
Ing gentleman from Cincinnati anf
got engaged to him helped hel
trim the very hat she has on. Il
WAS green straw with roses, one 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 being out
Turn over the page.
That's my Aunt Phoebe by marriage
the day she was married. Amt she
sweet? Tie basket wasn't hers. II
belonged to the man thnt took the
picture. Neither was the curls MI
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 1t amt mans hail
stead OF lady's. and then he could
wear II Badness seems to run III
his family. Ills father was so bald
that he never used u brush and com
for forty-two years: used 10 comb his
hair with a flannel rag. That dress
OF Aunt Phoebcs IL the lowest necked
anybody on either side OF our family
ever had. but then she WAS n greni
one for society Turn over the page.
Ellis Parker Butler IN Reader,