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Show Simple Spelling Invite. They were not a popular couple. Their families had never been fully accepted by the social circle to which they aspired, so when rumors of the wedding appeared more than half the people who expected to get an invitation invi-tation declared their intention of declining. de-clining. But nobody did decline. After the wedding everybody got busy telling tell-ing everybody else how they happened ' to change their mind. All gave the same reason. "It was the style of the invitations that took us," they said. "They were printed in simple spelling. They were the first invitations to anything we ever had seen spelled that way, and everybody went to see what a bride looked like who had courage enough to request the 'presens' of anybody at her marriage." |