New Britain herald., 1928-02-29

Alliance, Neb.. Feb. 29. Many daughters have been taken aside by their mammas and told that the way to a mans heart is through his tummy.
 But not nearly so many mothers have given their sons practical demonstration of just how perfectly girl should be able to make an apple pie before they attempt to marry one-a glrl not an apple pie.
 But that's just what Sara Bertha Colerick, best apple pie baker in 'steen counties, did all her life.
 Oh, not in so many words, per haps. But sine fed her four sons, Melvin, Dan, John and Charles such dclectable wedges of juicy. cinna- mony. sugary. crusty apple pie all their lives that it was inevitable each should take solemn VOW nev- CT to endure the holy rites of matri- mony till he found a girl who could create pies like mother used to make.
 All Grew Up Together
 They didn't krow then how the four Sisley girls could make apple pie. The Sisleys lived on the next ranch and the eight kids grew up together, went to school together, helped plant anG plough and har- vest for each other in the busy sea- sons.
 Just when each of the four Coler- ick boys first ate apple pie made by each of the four Sisley girls, re- spectively, does not appear in the family annals
 But sample the pies they did, all four of them. with the result that at some time within a dozen years first one Colerick boy and then an- other walked up the church aisle with Sisley girl who was as pretty as her applie pies. which was some compliment. if you knew the pies.
 Melvin Colerick married Bertha Sisley in 1912. Dan Colerick put a white gold ring on the left third finger of Edith Sisley in 1916. It was in 1924 before the third Coler- ick married the third Sisley. Then John Colerick married Ethel Sisley. and the next year Charles Colerick finished up the job by marrying Ma Tel Sisley.
 And Tint Wasn't All
 All four Sisley girls. champ apple pie bakers, were now Mrs. Colericks, welded to four champ apple pie caters.
 And you haven't heard nothing yet.
 Mrs. Colerick bad taught her niece. Nellie Pease. how to mako good apple pies. too.
 And the Sisley girls had taught their only brother Roy how to tell good apple pie when he tasted one.
 So in l?e: brother Roy married niece Nellie.
 And still you haven't heard it all!
 It wasn't long after all his girls had married all the Colcrick boys that Dad Sis,ey began to feel pretty lonesome. His wife had died some time before, and the big house where four girls had danced and sung and cooked vas empty and still,
 Then a Winter Romance
 Mrs. Colerick was lonely. too. She had been q widow for four years. but she didn't nCtice the loneliness So much until the fours boys for W vhonl she had baked hundreds of juicy apple pies were gone into homes Of their own. eating the ap- pie pics baked by other women.
 Dad Sisley. 70. started to slip over to mother Colerick's. 59, for 3 piece of her best apple pie in 'steen counties. And some folks suspected he enjoyed the chats over the apple pie as much as the pie. Then they started walking out together.
 And at New Years they were married. That ends it. There are no more Colericks 10 marry Sisleys.
 Problem in Relationships
 Just try figuring things out. if you dare'
 Four brothers aye married to four sisters. and the mother of the four brothers married the father of the four sisters.
 That makes Dad Sisley both fath- er-in-law and step-fsther to his sons in 5w. and makes Nom Sis ley mother -in-law and etep-mother to her daughters~in-la law. and even makes them respective father in law and mother-in-laU to their own sons and daughters.
 And all the brothers -in-law and slsters-ln-laW also are now step brothers and st"p-slsters since Nom and Pop got romantic in their de- Clininc years.
 And all this marrying m the same family has worked like 8 charm, say the participants, all of whom shout: No companionste marriage for us. We're for the plain old fashioned kird,"
 
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