The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1934-11-29

Something old and something blue,
Something borrowed and something
ncV.
Well, it just goes to show-some
people won't be left out of anything
if they can help it.
Here the upper strata of the town
goes and holds a wedding gown pag-
cant and forgets to include several
Oakland matrons who had weddings
of their own (if not so uppity), and
who got sore as boils about it. At an
indignation meeting they decided to
hold pageant Of their own and this
they did, in the Oakland Opera House,
last Saturday night about midnight.
Scoop was invited as a special repor-
ter
All gowns were modelled by the
brides themselves and everything was
rosy.
There were only six brides: Sadie
Snow, who had a military wedding;
Angelina Pectoris angie for SHORTY,
who rar away; Mehitabel Futz, the old
maid; Clementine Valentine, the three
time widow; Sophia Sope, the young
gal, who was pressed into marrying
the octogenarian just because he had
money, and Esther Zilch, who got ac-
quainted through a marriage bureau
and subsequent correspondence.
While the spinster should have been
the last according to dates, she in
sisted upon being the first in the pag-
cant. Gust so she could be sure she
wasn't dreaming" she said.
Her wedding was quiet church af-
fair, only about 450 present. She had
squeezed into her mothers gown that
she had gazed at longingly for many
years, fearing she's never make it.
1t was either lawn or flannel, and she
carried a shower bouquet of touch-me
nots. To the tune of Hes my Mar"
she came down the aisle and returned
to the strains of "There'll be a hot
time in the old town tonight" Oh,
yeah"
Clementine wore a knee-length
skirt, trimmed around the bottom
with fur, for no apparent reason,
while in her bouquet were numerous
bachelor buttons and daisies (they
don't tell, you know. A soloist sang
81 shall not pass this way again" Il
hope) as she came down the aisle,
concluding with "Love's old Sweet
Cong" land folks, when the gong
sounded it was exactly four).
To carry out Sophia's traditions, she
was gently urs d down the aisle by
her parents, to live over again her
marriage. She had been married TWEEN
ty years, and the old man was still
hanging on. She wore a flowing gown
of cashmere and the more cash the
merrier. Her theme song at the orig
inal wedding was, "Say, honey, have
you any money, that's all l want to
know" but this was changed in her
pageantry and the soloist sang,
"Throw out the Life Line" In her
bouquet were live forever roses.
Then there was Angie, who ran
away She carried handful of dais-
les on one arm, just as she had picked
them in years gone by, and in the
other hand she carried a textbook.
She was attired in a blue MILDLY, skirt,
cotton stockings, high top shoes and
green toboggan. The elbow was out
of the MILDLY. AS she pranced down
the aisle the soloist sang Gust as
am" There was no usher for her. Her
gown had had no train, nor was there
conductor originally.
*A*
Esther, who discovered her male
by looking through the mails consist
emily, appeared to be the only really
happy one of the lot, carrying forget
me-nots in her bouquet. Her wedding
was hard to re-enact as they had been
married when they first met, but the
choir, in order to make it realistic
sang two selections, down by the old
Mill Stream, where I'll Meet you,
and you'll know me by the rose in
my button hole" Never having heard
the last one, the choir got a little
mixed, but for that matter so did the
bride, as there were several down at
the old mill stream that day with rec
roses and she never did find out il
she got the right one.
The grand finale and big splurge
was put on by Sadie Snow, who had