daphne's proposal

One morning as I was coming down the stairs I heard Daphne telling mother that Earl had asked her to marry him. So I walked back upstairs and came running back down yelling to mother “Hey mom do you know that Earl has asked Daphne to marry him?” “How do you know?” says Daphne
“I was right there behind the bush,” says Kate
“What did he say?” says Daphne
“I love you and would like you to marry me” says Kate
“Oh Mama make her shut up” said Daphne
“Are you going to say yes?’ says Kate
Kate, for heaven sake go get dressed for school and shut up, said mother. Daphne started to cry and I left them in the kitchen with mother trying to get her to stop crying that everything was okay.

She set the date for the wedding in the middle of January. I did all I could to break them up till Earl came up to me and said there was nothing I could do or say, they were going to get married and if I didn’t lay off I would make her sick. I asked mother if I could help do the sewing for the wedding, so I helped mother make the nightgown, petticoats, and all the wedding dress.