The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-07-05
OUR FIRST ANNIVERSARY.
By Nav Borden Stevens,
Copyright, 1922. by Wheeler Syn

Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler Syn
dicate. Incl
We looked forward to our first
anniversary as a great event in our
lives. 1t was as great an occasion,
We felt sure. as mothers 50th would
be to her, for. you see. We had never
had an anniversary before.
We were at Johns house when
it happened, and so were our maid
of honor and our best man-John's
sister and nv brother; so II was
natural. l suppose, for Mother B.
to appoint them a committee OF ar
rangements for the day of days. We
were sure the celebration would be
ruined, for how could two people
barely OF age. and still in school,
know anything about wedding ami
versaries. We frightened up, how
ever, when Mother B. said We
might make out the menu ourselves
and decorate the dining-room, for
it gave US a chance for sacred mo-
merits; without sacred moments it
would not be our anniversary at
all, but sort of party TO which We
were invited as an afterthougnt.
The committee held meetings,
sometimes with mother and some
times alone. That was all they
seemed to do. and though We knew
that the whole thing must be SIM
pie and inexpensive. still we feared
they would carry simplicity too far
and miss the significance Of the ,oc-
casion. There was an awful calm
whenever We were in the house.
Except for the Joy of ordering all
we wanted Of special kind of ice
cream. there. did not seem to he
much to look forward to. But you
shall hear.
When the morning came Mother
B. was disappointingly idle. We
had hoped for a lot of little cakes
such as We had at the wedding, all
different cclored icings, but there
was no sign of baking. However,
there were loads of flowers, and
John and / forgot everything else
and had our sacred moments fixing
them.
We made a low, oval center
piece for the table and arranged a
bunch on the tea wagon In the bay
window. The dinning-room did
look lovely. We put flowers in all
the rooms, then took mothers sug-
gestion and went out with the
guests until dinner time. The com
mittee excused itself and stayed at
home.
When We returned there was Just
time to dress for dinner, and doors
we. had left open into the living
rooms were closed. was to wear
my wedding dress. and there were
our mothers arrayed in theirs, and
brother and sister looking like the
attendants We had the year before.
As We came down the stairs. feel
ing very bridy and groomy again,
the wedding march sounded and the
maid of honor and the best man led
the way into the dining-room.
Everything looked so different
from the way it did when we left
thai ! couldn't see it all at once,
but just followed the leaders be-
tween the high gateway Of boughs
and flowers that had sprung MP at
the dining room door. Two chairs
! at the table were suggestiyeiy
draped in white and green. / had
time to note that our own decopa-
stions had not been changed, but
simply added to, when / caught
sight OF two dclls dressed n bride
and groom. with ribbons leading to
kupies beside each plate. guardfns
little baskets Of bonbons.
The place cards were . TRIUMPH
and I must say the committee wal
clever. sitter al. They had cute lit
tie heads from snapshots and ate,
pasun9 tnem on cards drawn tan
tasue figures in Characteristic
Doeasito % Win thsnl ~ yerees
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