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BIRTHDAY
A Birthday Jubilee
Those who live in and around Carrollton, may have wondered last Thursday
afternoon what all that noise that rang out of a truck like the bleating of
sheep was. Well, in explanation we will say it was only a part of the merry
little crowd that attended the birthday party of little Jayella Myers.
This happy little girl was eight years old on that day. The celebration took
place at her aunties, Mrs. W. T. Squibb, in their grand old home north of town.
It is a historical homestead. It was once the home of that gentlemanly old man
"Uncle" John Jackson, and also the place of the noted Jackson reunions in days
long gone by. We suppose many happy voices have echoed and reached with its
walls and on the smooth carpet of grass without, but none happier than the
approximately twenty five little ones that jumped and skipped on the "grasses
green" last Thursday afternoon.
After playing at "drop the hankerchief," "piggie wants a signal," "pretty bird
in my cup," and "hold open the gates as high as the sky, and let King George and
his horses pass," they were ushered into the dining room which was dark and on
the table beamed eight baby candles on a snow white cake. A host of animal
cookies surrounded the large bouquet and birthbake.
The children then began to make wishes for the little hostess. The girls wishing
she would spend many such birthdays, that she would never be sick, and hoped she
would like all the presents and some that she would grow up a sweet good girl
and be a missionary. But the boys balked when t came their time.
Some suggested that they wish Jayella would be their sweetheart when she grew up
- but no they turned red, shook their heads and said nothing. But we are
persuaded better things of them if little Jayella proves to be as charming in
her teens as she now is in her early girlhood, we would feel save in prophesying
these self same boys may even in a manner not slow try to be the first to make
the wish that on this occasion they refused to.
She received many dainty little presents. Let us hope that she enjoys many, many
such birthdays.
The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, September 10, 1920, pg1
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams |
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