New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-02
Why I Didn't Marry Her.

NUMBER 223.
| Why Didn't Marry Her.
was sitting last summer smoking q cigar
with my friend Tom Fairbanks It was at Rock
| away, and we were laughing in our own roopa, I
with our feet elevated on window bench Best
| way in the world Of sitting, that. Wonder if
ladies never try it when no one is near. Guess
| they do. We had smoked two cigars and COM
menced on third There's something strange
in cgar-it makes one cool in hot weather,
and warm in cold weather. And there is q
great deal in enjoying it with q crony. Tom
was fast friend Of mine and a fine felloW--yes,
o fine fellow, there was something in him. He
was fond Of society and q great favorite among
the ladies, and now as I looked over the dancing
waves and mused--cigars promote reflection,
they're a real moral institution, and that's why
| the clergy patronize them suppose ~ as /
smoked and mased wondered why he had
never been caught in any Of the nets spread for
him There was a tall dark-eyed beauty who
made great impression ON his heart. He had
danced and frted through whole New York
/ season with her, and from the way in which
they both denied it, had really belived them
4 engaged. But Tom had suddenly drawn off,
4 and left the young lady to point her toes and
curl her ringlets for come one else: had neYer
!. known the reason for this, and with my mind
full Of these thoughts, suddenly turned to Tom,
and asked him how it was that he did Mt marry
Flora Goodman
Tom made no reply, but threw open his collar
little more-Tom and had mounted Byron
I collars since We came to Rockaway. There
e seemed no getting anything out Of him.
ssD!d the lady cut you, Tom:'
FL | thought this would rouse him. "No,,, was
the emphatic response.
He then knocked of the ashes Of the cigar
u say1ngs g And SO you want to know why
didn't marry Miss Goodman y
g Yes; ! thought papa had been spoken TO-,
: and the bridal dresses ordered "a.
n ssNo; never had anything to do with Mr..
]. Goodman, further than to settle myself in his
chair when he left the par1or clear for me in the
t evening. Flora generally sat on an ottoman
j. long wasted people look better ottomans, you
! know" ss II 5 8z$4 N, s@+
i Well, you didn't tire Of long waists, did
t you'll thought you admired everything about
4 ! Miss Flora" FL.
d $50 did, then; that's my reflection now
8 And she was very beautiful girl-a very I'm,
:. one in many respects @
: ssAnd she had the 60 about her, too--some
}, thing very stylish. What's thereason she did'n
i, suit you, Tom @ ?
J. s You were very long finding that out, then.
l. g 1t was something saw, that let me int
the secret jssS
swell, out with it, or I'll duck you the yer
9, next time we go bathing
:. sc You shall have the story. You may ca
V me foolish to take notice of such thing, bu
= I'm little peculiar sometimes. I waited o
lc Miss Goodman to q party. I had ordered
j. magnificent bouquet, and talked to my washer
.. woman an extra half hour about the getting u
Of my linen. had got my moustache trimme
~ and got q new pair Of patent feathers. Ireall
~ ~ looked we'll that night Though believe ther
. is no connection save the allteration hetwee,
q sensbility and scrubbing brushes, even til
u u house maid gazed at me with sort Of patheti
d admiration, as I came down stairs ] neve
c saw Flora more enchanting, and l glanced
!. Il around Mr.. Goodmans richly furnished draw
:. ing rooms, thinking it would be quite eomforta
! BILE to walk in and hang up my hat there. {.
= handed Miss Flora into the carriage as tenderl,
:, as possible. She kept me waiting o long tim
4 in the dressing room, 8 thingl abominate, bu
= was enough Of q lover then to be as patien
as Job. tucked the young lady under m
arm, and we descended to the parlor. Jo'
70 don't you wish the old fashion would com
back when the gentleman handed the lady q
arms length, by the tips of her extended fiji
r. gers. There was an opportunity then for son
IN display of ones bringing up--a slow fnishe
e. courtesy, and a finished bow
Ii ssWell enough for you fellows that are
ns proud of your fngers,' said |, but some of l
q are glad to getthrough the ceremony any wa
es without displaying our awkward shoulders, ar
at the.way arms, and if I might hint it, som
ladies would not make it a very graceful op,
al ration
So '''Oh! if it were the fashion it would
8 taught as q science-part of ones course
90 dancing SCHOOL,
r You are yet to learn, Tom, that there al
e. some limbs, male and female, that can never
cd made to work easy-the dancing master cann
ID impart grace where nature has not ,properl
r prepared the material"
y swell, at any rate, we made our entree
lr style that night. Floras smile and bend WEI
faultless, and can make a pretty good bow
The evening passed-Floras behavior to myse
u and others, hit the lady-lke thing to a nicely
es Her courtesies we're shown so gracefully and 6
to generally as to exhibit no marked preference
Id and yet there was an air, light manner, Wis
o. BILE only to myself in her way of receiving IN
J" attentions, that was hattering in the extrems
in Supper came. Terrapins and champagr
y make one feel very complacent; but I was nt
p quite so much exalted as not to notice every
v thing Flora did. She was standing near a
n old gentleman, quite an aged man, over sevent
le should think, with o kind, benevolent fac'
le He seemed attracted by her beauty, and WE
e, talking to her with a pleased expression Of il
cd terest that made one love as well as reverend
le the silver hairs upon his temples. But ST
u seemed uneasy. Sne u1d nOt auCend 70 WnaG
g was saying.
t. Suddenly she interrupted him in the midd
of sentence with 81 beg your pardon, sir
Mt and turning her back upon him, commence
r. conversation with q fellow who walks Broat
IN way with his gloves half ofto show his diamor
IN rings. As she took his arm to promenade, 81
re caught the old gentleman look, surprised, hu
at and aggrieved. But no expression of regr
le came over her counfenance. Her head VI
tn carried as easily as before, and her glances
as bright. 1t was enough for me. never forg
ey Flora Goodman's rudeness to that old man.
's' say the least there is nothing more ungracef
7og in young lady than any lack of respect or a
ne tention to old age, it shows great want
something, a radical defect somewhere. T
ne jig was up for that night: and that, my de
n, fellow, is why did not marry Flora Goodman
he DIDN'T KNOW HIS OWN LANGUAGE.-A GO
he he respondent Of the Binghampton Republics
as writing from New York, relates the folloWi
III amusing incident
Among the many lecturers to whom t
10 Gothamites are respectfully invited to listen,
he Turk by the name of Oscanyon. He keeps
lat coifee-house on Broadway, where gentlemen
he leisure often retire to smoke from Turk
an pipe and sip excellent Mocha. Great trouble
the experienced by visitors to make the waits
W understand til cir wants. for as thew the waite