The Marlin Democrat
Fifteenth Year   Number 16
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 16, 1904

A DELIGHTFUL AFTERNOON.

     Mrs. Chas Oltorf contributed by issuing at cards to meet her sister and friend. Not withstanding the first warm afternoon of the season, more than a hundred responded to the cards.
     The Oltorf is the ancestral of Mr. Oltorf, which has fallen to this charming couple by inheritance. The house which has recently been done over, re-decorated and appointed, has a most artistic interior, the walls being hung in high art tapestry papers, and the windows and door ways hung with beautiful laces and draperies.
     Mrs. Oltorf's six hundred flinch closed the social pace on Thursday in a very delightful way opening up at 4:30 and coming to a finish over a delicious course of ices and cake, served daintily on the card tables at 7:30.
     Mrs. John Oltorf and Miss Mary Burkhead, of Waco, were the honorees of the afternoon. It gave the week a social eclat, and furnished society folks with a, handsomely appointed and dressed affair de ceremonie.
     Mrs. Oltorf and Miss Burkhead are old Marlin favorites. Miss Burkhead as a guest on many former occasions, and Mrs. Oltorf, remembered most pleasantly as a pretty bride, and later, a royal hostess in her own artistic home; this is only like a "home- coming" to her, as her friends in this place are legion.
     It was a special pleasure that a floral scheme was selected for each room of the reception suite to harmonize with the decorations and hangings, which made most effective tout ensemble. This house, colonial in design with its spacious walks, sets well back in a large lawn thickly studded with forest oaks, which have no doubt stood sentinel over that lovely spot for centuries, and afforded an ideal play ground for the children and grand-children of Judge and Mrs. J. D. Oltorf and their neighbors' children as well, for their southern hospitality knew no bounds.
     Some twenty years or more, in the writer's palmy days, 'twas her high privilege to have been a guest in that ideal home, and it is open to the society lovers of Marlin, by the youngest son and his wife whom we all knew and loved as handsome Charley and sweet little Susie Battle, who played the roll of playmates, school mates and sweethearts so effectually that God said "they shall be one" - and may their thoughts, and affection, be a unit until Eternity.

F. C. S.

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