Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 54
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, November 27, 1907
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AN ITALIAN WEDDING FEAST.
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       Echoes of the Italian wedding feast in honor of Miss Franciesca Barbera and Joseph Falsome, two popular members of Italian society at Highbank, are just now reaching Marlin.
       The feast and dance last the best part of two days and it was a gala occasion for all present and they were there from far and near.
       The bride and groom were the central figures, of course, and the vast throng of their countrymen took great delight in doing them honors.
       Music was furnished by a specially ordered Italian band from Houston. There was plenty to eat and plenty to drink.

'There was a sound of revelry by
night,
and Highbank's capital had gath-
ered then
When the lamps shown over
Fair women and brave men."

       The bridal presents were many, rare and beautiful, and were brought as proud trophies to be laid at the feet of the fair and blushing bride by legions of friends whose delight was that they might be permitted to pay her homage.  The groom was the picture of pride as he viewed with unconfined ecstacy the reverence paid to his only love.  His smile was as bright and as expansive as the sunlight that spreads out its munificence over his own native Italy.
       Included in these presents was $500 in cash and $1000 worth of valuables.  They were displayed on a table and each round of the dance wound up at this table--and other tables laden not with bridal presents but loaded with refreshments, both dry and drinkable.
       Mayor Lem Peacock was a special guest of the feast.  He was the Beau Brummel of the ball.  A few passes at the refreshment stand and the mayor forgot his reheumatism and his avoidupois.  The wine and the music injected an activity and a supplness in his body that he had not felt since he left his native health in far away Florida.  Once again he whirled in the mazes of the "Grand Right and Left" as he was wont to do with the everglade maidens of the Peninsula state.  It was the first touch of real life that he had had in years and it is needless to say that he done the honors in a most fetching style.  He played no favorites--he danced with all the merry maidens and gave the gentlemen some valuable pointers on the Terpsicorean stunt.
       Among those present from a distance were Pasqaey Sousdy and Henry Scanodo of Mumford; Frank Cangalosi and family and Sam Loria and family of Bryan; Joseph Loria and family from Houston; Frank Salvator and family, Peater Coat, Dominick Ancona and Toney Vaviscva from Mudville.

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