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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