The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-09-23


the shady side of Broadway, yesterday: Mil,
liners and dressmak bad given them a.fts," ,"
and Nature had iTery kind indeed
and taken great )ae coIoring of their
lips and eyes, and she had not time to
do, in the way of \ fg cheeks, why, they
had done for thems Is.
They were very Vthe two were-very
merry, and very--sl veil be as dsinty as
we can, in the choit terms-very brare.
Just before them, 81 -rting her feeble frame
with a staff, tot:ered an aged woman, who
was somebody's mother, may be, before our
brace of butterhieswas born. She heard the
hutterand the clattet behind her. and turning
partly abcos.shef fos eyes frightened alittle,
with something of childish admiration, at the
visions of those twosbeautiful toys
On came the twain. They saw-they must
have seen-the simple tribute that Age was
paying them Age, that had seen more Of this
beautiful world and its contents than they
could ever do looking into tolet-gass; and
they should have been satisfied with it, and
turned a little one side, but they did no such
thing On they came, like couple of drum
majors, and so, their senior and better withal,
must needs hurry out of the way, as she best
could, and make room for the children, lest
she should be run over. Bestowing n con-
temptuous glance upon her, and saying some
thing laughingly about "the old woman
they swept on, and were lost in the crowd.
We don't know how gracefully they can
enter drawing room; doubtless pery We
don't care how much they are caressed; prob
ably uerE but we do know that the little
handful of irritable muscle they ought to
have somewhere in their left breast, known
in morals and medicine as heart, was for
gotten in their construction, or else that it is
sadly out of order. The politeness that never
ventures foot offa Brussels carpet on to
the bare floor of this great caravansery of earth.
is miserable, chalk-eating invalid. Our
equals claim our courtesy; our superiors COM
mand ii; and ifany OF the accidents of fortune,
such as lucky rise in the "fancies," a series
of successful rascalities, or the sublime virtue
of being the children of their own fathers,
have given to some a few yards more of satin
and lace than to others, they can at least af-
ford to be corteous, inasmuch as it is q COM
modify that never appears in m invoice.
Had our thoughtess two been ten times
lovelier than they were, how would their beau
ty have been beautiied, by kind smile, if
not gentle word, .. they passed! Her dress,
plain to be sure, cost, perhaps, the better part
of five dollars; her eyes were dim and rheumy,
but time was when those eyes were as blue
as a clear June heaven at noon, or as dark as
that same heaven at night. Years, indeed,
have made sad work with that cheek and
brow. Ye lips, whose slightest acknowedg-
ment they would have envied, may have been
pressed in all the fervor of true soul upon
that brow as queenly, that check as rosy as
their own.
There may be those who call her by the
sacred name of smother" For shame, young
women! She may be widow and childess.
For shame, the more! A few years more,
and Time shall enter "my lady's chamber"
pearl-powder is not proof against him nor can
rouge defraud him of solitary year. "To
this complexion, must" they "come at last"
ty" If people generally knew what an ad-
vantage to them it was to be cheerful, there
would be fewer sour faces in the world, and
infinitely less i'll temper. A man never gains
anything by exhibiting his annoyance in his
face, much less by bursting into a passion.
AS it is neither manly nor wise to YIELD like
a child pettishly to every cross, so it is alike
foolish and absurd to allow feelings of anger
to deprive us of selfcuitrol.
Happiness is much better distributed than
money. It's one of those valuable produc.
tons which money cant buy. One ofthosc
mornings in walking to your place of busi-
ness, you see one of the rich men Of the day,
who dwells in marble and wears expensive
clothing and gold watch, hurryng across
tho Montague Ferry to his counting house in
Wall street with his brows puckered up like
bed quilt, and in tremor of anxiety lest
the Car and the Sultan may come to blows,
and the brokers' European stocks come down
with n crash, like Tray full of china. Then
you meet the hod carrier hurrying to his
work, and singing Yankee Doodle, or whist
ling Dandy jim; his head untroubled by a
thought, and his pocket undisturbed by n
dollar. A clear conscience and good wife, is
property enough fO4nny man.
In reference to tn arrival at Salem of sew
era hundred monkey skins from Africa, the
Register says:
"Monkey skins have formed an article of
commerce for many years, and we dare say
that many n fair llas strutted her brief
hour in all the CID of II monkey skin mufi
and rat skin gloves, without ySpecting the
quality of her finery."
tR-Two men went to California. One
came back without a rag to his back, while
the other came back with nothing but rags.
Wanted to know, which did the best.
'Debby, the door bell rings, and you must
rum light the match, and touch the shavings,
and let the sticks and brands get on fire in
the fireplace, or they will think we don't
keep fire in the sitting-room, aud that
wnuld mt be penteeli