Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1837-03-28
WIE%IIIANTa
From the New York Mirror.
an OLD MAID OF NINETEEN.
A SoLILoQUY,

SoLILoQuf.
Hegho. This very day, | am nineteen VIVA,
an alarming fact What green old age Nine
teen winters have left their SHOWS upon my fore.
head nineteen summers their wthereS roses on my
cheeks. The feet, | fear, have made their
abominable appearance the wrinkles began their
detestable ravages. OH that hateful looking
glass 1t surely makes me look older than really
am. I'll get another. Blu, its no use. ! cannot
conceal the alarming fact tho am nineteen Ali
how time slips away; how the false world chang
es. We-all sublunary joys are 'ransiiory; but,
indeed, | feel the fligh, of time mos, sensitvely in
my own case Just imagine my distressing plight
nineteen and an old maid ] am getting subject
10 the rheumatism am quite martyr to the
'oottache and am beginning TO fancy il. is The tick
doloureux. Certainly, il is very dulorous tn me.
All things were diiieret when was young. But
those delightful Days are gone--gonc for ever -
and am left solitary old maid 20 pine in lonell-
ness my forlorr mud deserted condition, to
muse on the vanity disappointment, and utter "orh-
lessness Of this hear,ess world, and sing with the
poet
For great and smallae hollow all,
All hollow hollow, no,iO~ ~
But for me- in whose breast The milk Of human
kindness is not turned to the gall Of bitterness and
who still look upon my unfortunate fellow-creatures
lat least upon those who do not, like me, enjoy
the superlstive blessings Of celibacy) with eyes
beamng with pity, tenderness and compassion,
there is one important and frigh,iul circumsl nee
which has caused me much aneasness aud coniec-
ture the more, TO nay terror and Consideration,
feel some Of the symp oms Of the disease myself.
The hearts Of this generation are becoming ossi-
fed And whether We are 10 become stone loco
motives, flint sieam-engines, or walking statues
without souls, is a problem which. though causing
the infinite anxiety and profound medal"p yet
have been totally unable 20 solve. What is il that
causes the difference between this generation and
their ancestors3 In the oldcn time knights aud
cheysiers fell in love at first sight: and, if we may
believe historians, :hls sentiment was not the mere
transient feeling of hour bot The cherished prin-
ciple Of life. Now the descendants OF these knights
and chevaliers are immersed in sugar, indigo cot
ton and tobacco speculation, sealed up n bank
stocks, smohered IN bales of silk and cargoes Of
tee blind to all The slluremeDis Of beauty, aud deaf
to the voice Of the charner, charm che aever 50
wisely; and If their industrious minis are allowed
any relaxation, 1t Is merely speculation on the
probability of railroad to Apiiachicois, orr capnl
to the Pacific Ocean And why this neglect =
Surely not because he beauty Of our has de,e-
lorated for il is acknowledged that the more the
mind Of woman becomes elevated by knowledge
and cultivation. in The same proportion does the
STYLE Of her couuiensnoe become more elevated ond
intellectual. And It is an equally admitted fact,
tha; TO quote the expression Of one of my own
happy sisterhood) The mhnmss Of TINT age might
60 10 school to the babes of this Why, then
this apalbyl No reason Gao be assigned but that
newly discovered disease, The Justification Of the
heart. do verify believe het II 90 angel, IN ali
the sublim,y and ,rsnseendaut beauty of her heaS-
eBly birth were TO enter the shop counting bOUse
of enc Of our morey-geiung citizens, he would
merely nqaire II she csme 10 parcbsse brown 81
gar brandy 90 some other article IA the way Of h.r
vocation and If .hc ID not he would return 10 las
accounts utterly regardless Of bis celestial INSTANT
Such are the degenerate defendants Of our eh'gal-
nc and susceptible foreiaihers. Bot my laDen's-
ton. do DOT altogethef proceed from my oserilo"
ing bene, olence TO the human race.
Little would IT mailer 10 me wefe all the danes
10 the city, nay in the world 10 be allowed TO shed
10 solitude pearly tears over their disappointed ms
neuyer-to fall ike me into the scar aud yellow
lesf-lke me be doomed 10 lead TIE sPes they low
ed on earth in the dark regioas Of Pluto. AZ
have lust ssd, htlle matter would this Se 20 ice
for in my poor Judgment. The greater part o. them
would be much happier singie than double. Bot
my alarm and smsIeHent ere principally eseiied by
'hs g'fc.rr'r nhich az ~ i-h.s' -r''ces'--''''