Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1845-02-06

SiWcS SMILING WIFI W aTtIN
blacklng, and buckles brushed as brigl
as gold. In short, he was the las.
" me cooked hat fraternity in New Yorl
IL he had VIE, but no family; so 81
e devoted the whole of her powers to III
J. cooking Of his fnod and Keeping Of h
v person neat and clean: and al 10 A. N
e when she I"oaed upon her Sandy as
b stepped from dis s,onp, as trim az p
D geon when she starts from her coop j
, summer morning, there was net
; Pr"uder w"msn in all chrlstendom. :
. bn' hey are gone, and we will neve
! look upon their like again. So we re
. turn again to Christmas. 1894.
Gin tina. day, the stores and work
shops were nearly all shu, up. few
belonging TO the Friends, in Peari.s,.
excepted. Then men had time to wor
snip God; now they have only time
I" worship Mammon-lhat golden cali
in Wali.st. Then we had only two
Banks, and not one broker; now we
have thirty Banks and ten times ten
scores of Brokers. Then the floors
were scrubbed and sprinkled with
white sand from Concy Island. now
'hsy are covered with cloth from Brus-
sells and carpets from Turkey. Then
the people we're happy; now they live
in splendid misery. Then when the
ladies got the headache they dipped
their raven locks in pail of cold wa.
ter, and were cured; now they pour
GU. bottle of cologne water, to the
cost OF fifty cents. and yet the pain re.
mains. Fifty years ago / never heard
OF bottle of cologne water being in
the city; now am told tina, two hun
dred thousand dollars is spent annually
on this useless drug. Fifty years ago,
the daughters Of able merchants and
thriving mechanics would sing with
with the spinning wheel. and weave
on the loom, like he daughters oil men
when Rachel was a girl and Jacob
stood by his mothers knee; now they
set humming French airs and jingling
IL ii their heads and the megrims in
their bosoms. Then the lasses wore
wooden stockings and double soled
shoes, and lived to be eighty; now they
wear silk stockings and satin shoes.
and before they live half their days.
the doctor and grave digger ride rio.
over their graves. Then if We took a
notion to get married, we finished our
days work at 7 p. m. as usual, got
supper at eight. pu. on our Sunday
coat. and the lassie her summer hat,
and al nine we walked to the Rev. DR..
John Rogers in Pine-st., or Rev.
Bishop Provost. in Vesey-st. The
Bishop or the Doctors man-servan.
and maid servan. we're always dressed
by eight p. m. and ready to ofiiciase as
bridesmaid and groom s.nan. and
from their long experience in such
matters. they could act their part UP to
nature. A Spanish dollar was the reg.
ular fee.y We then walked home alone.
Having cargh. the bird. we took her
to The nest we had prepared for her.
Perhaps we began with three rush.bot.
TONED chairs, at rs cents each;. II was
one more than we wanted; and we had
our room. though small, TO ourselves;
our hearts knew their own happiness.
and no stranger inlermeddled with our
Joys. Now the bachelor Of IS takes
his bird Of fifteen TO the public table
OF .iadame BIS boarding house.
nr that promiscnous group. IN How
ards Ho.el. where she suffers from the
stare of some lmpudent. bralness
bloc khead, or IS put TO the blush by |
the insolen. u,ier Of SET OF black |
whl,kered. most consummate Tools;
and ,hIs is the refinement Of the nine.
,eenth century 'lF.- aeae
Now, my young friends. don, you
think our old sober-ided mode ns dong
tn. f,,>uDass va n,re natural. more |
,t.s-stis, md m,r- economical han !
nc i.fe,,ul o,sshl- aad Jungle fashion,
/ AZ | aave ksite9'.t PArSnn get a !
.e.seeA l.,r $500 ~, 2utebng couple
tt.gr'ie.. fii'l Jetrt a. - =
tu4rs Cd a. aigGi, y-n' ~ &ntr a *
IN the morning. with all the sober re-
ai,,,es of life on our backs: and at eight
found our breakfast, made ready. for
The first time. by The hands of her we
loved best. In this there was pleas
nre. unspeakablr and sublime On
Wednesday, we changed our neither
frock, solled with brickdus..coal SNAKE
| Or the labors Of the plane, and perhaps
a rem. in The sleeve. or button gone
as,ray. On Saturday night we found
the shir, clean and neatly folded, the
rem, mended. and the stray button re-
mrned 70 its place, aud the stockings
neatly mended. making them look
Utmost as GUIDE as ne,c. This was
the labor Of love, A bachelor has this
done for money, but the washwoman
enbezzsls bis stockings. tvsrs his col