Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-10-29
From the New York Musical World aud Times
TABITHA T0MPKINS SOLILOQUY.

! HAVE l. Tabitha Tompkins, right to my share
OF fresh air URcontdmin0tedP or have notP | ask
the question with my arms a-kimbo. | might as
well say what I've got to say pop gun fashion, as
to tiptoe round my subject mincng and courtcsying
when I'm all a-blazc with Indignation
! ask again: Have a right to my share Of fresh
air uncontaminatcd? or have | not2
Do go out for a walk2 Every man meet is
locomotive chimney. Smoke-sm ke- smoke -|
smoke great long tails of it following in their
wake, while dodge, and twist, and choke, trying
to escape the coils of the sitting Anaconda, till
am black in the face. !, Tabtha Tompkins. whose
grandfather was one of the signers Of the Declar
alton of Independence | feel seventy-six-yl
have borne it about as long as | can without dam
age to hooks and eyes.
IL try to escape il. by getting into an omnibus
there 1t is again! IL it does not originate inside
some gentleman" on the box or top. watts it into
the windows. If | take refuge in n ferry boat.
find gentlemen requested not to smoke las usual)
dead letter,--no more regarded than is the law
against gaming or the Sunday liquor traffic. Do
go to n concert at Castle Garden, and step out on
the balcony between the performances for u breath
of fresh air ?--myrinds of lighted llavannas send
me dizzy and staggering back into the concert room
Does gentleman call to see me of an evening p
the instant he shakes his "Gmbrosial curls, and
| gives "a nod" have to run for my vinagrctte
Do | advertise for lodgings; aud aitcrmuch in
spection of rooms, and wear and tear Of patience
and gaiter boots, make final selcction2 DO en-
igrate WIN bg trunk, ana little trunk, ana whole
nest of bandboxes Do | get my rocking-chair,
and workable, and wrting-desk. and pretty little
lamp all safely transported and longitudiniscd to
my fancy? Do |, in Paradisaic state of mind
(attendant upon said successful emigration 90 to
my closet, some fine morning, and take down pet
dress ?-asalntida and onions what an odor! All
the "pachouli' and ''ncw mown hay in New York
wouldn't swecten it. Six young men the other side
of that closet, and all smokes y! Betty, you may
have that dress IL wouldn't touch it with pair Of
tongs.
DO | lend masculine friend my copy Of Alex
ander Smiths Poems can ] ever touch il again
till 1t has been through quarantine? Does he. by
mistake, carry home my tppet in his pocket after
concert can ] compute the hours it must hang
dangling the clothes line before il can be allowed
to resume its place round my neck?
DO go to church on Sunday, with a dcvout de-
desire to attend to the sermon my next neighbor
is young man, apparently seated on nette cush-
ion he groans and fdgets and fdgets and groans
crosses his feet and uncrosses them kicks over the
cricket; knocks down his cane; drops the hymn
book, and finally draws from his coat pocket n little
case takes out segar after another transposcs
them. applies them to the end of his nose and pats
them atfectionately; then he examines his watch
then frowns at the pulpit; then, glancing at the
door, draws sigh long enough and strong enough
to initiate pair of bellows or burst off vest but
ton.
With n dolorous whine, this same young man
deplores lin public his inability to indulge in the
luxury Of a wife, owing TO the ertIardgant habits
of the young ladies of the present day"
! FANNY FERN.