Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-04-14
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An Oa Maids SoIiIoquy.

the pleasures Of youth! wonder if
be couldn't be bribed to slacken his
speed, or else move backward for
awliileP No onward, and still on
ward, ho trolls his ceaseleSb cour Sc
How. now, am to spend the present
year? ! am a social being, and q mt
live without social ehjoyments, but
shuns me. If ! appear in
the midst Of the gay, every voice is
hushed and every movement is sliled.
If ! attempt to laugh, and prteIthe
idle nothtngs Of fashionable bellies,
they look at each other-faces all
covered with idiotic simperings, while
they whisper this sage remark: v by,
olJ Miss Eloise, is getting young
again. IF ! address them in the ]so-
be rness befittingmy years, they q PIE
at me with IN impatient look, saying:
you ARE distressingly tedious. II l
spout forth my literary hoarilings,
which 4 have stored away in iny
treasury of gems; or, if | blaze forth
some Of the glowing conceptions Of
my own bright genius, they look al
me with an incomprehensive stare +
countehanccs as blank as chip, ant
wonder what she does talk such Ii re-
some nonsense to them for If
address myself 10 the middle aged +
those who have glided out of fsin$lC
blessedness'' into the matrimonfa
state they listen for while through
mere p9Aieness, now and then stop
ping me to give orders to a serv; IN
i showing very clearly, they dob
!. care much about what | am saying
and after much hard struggling to b
polite enough to hear me through
they start off after some of their DO
mestic affairs, and come back with
long chat for me about this jelly ah'
that preserve, this web of cloth All,
that blue dye, than which to ice mott
ing could be conceived Which could b
more wearisome. From all such,
turn with scorn, as not capable }
appreciating my wise and learnd
conversations; and for sympathy
thought | appeal to the enl;ghtend
understa ndings of the "sterner TEX,
the "ld rds Of creation Here, / sd
liloqp4ike my learning will meet Wit
a due appreciation Iplunge at ono
into he very depths of science, brin
up the pri es as old as myseLf-expa
tate ID gfly and ably upon them
draw opt MY brightest conversation
al powers in eulogizing this autho
and dehe uncing that The gentle
men whom l have been laboring t
edify, eli ergeticallv chow thei
cuds, while nov and then my enqui
ries meet the yoluminous response
of yea nay: sufficient evidence t
my suspicious nature that l am no
even III teresting here. Like Eth
loathsohe terrapin, | crawl within
myself, and thus l mnse:-Strang
world How is it? am / the onl
learned person in it, that no one cal
appreciate my requirements? Or i
there something about me SO hide
ously rep ulsive that nobody can bea
me? Even the children, whose goo'
viii / try to conciiiate, ridicule M
precision and laugh at my stiff col
lars-the servants hate me for m,
troublesoIn e neatness, and the very
dogs cover beneath my vinegar look
and run to escape the ill-naturet
kick. Nothing in the wide world j.
my friend, save puss, the gently purr
ing puss. In the agony Of my soul
Il exclaim: for what purpose was
made? No thoughts nor sensibilitie:
in common with any age, grade, mol
sex! A peculiar formation, to SHOW
what hateful piece Of Workmanship
could be made, in The shape Of wo-
man. The very flies buzz in S warns
the croaki ng frog jumps and hops
in sportiye glee with its fellow frog
the noisy locusts sing together =
all, all but me, live in HI rmonyi and
sweet compan ionship. Oh! mise ra Bile
49,. 4lot h.,>i Cloo.A 49,, l.. 4
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