Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1856-07-03

spectacle woman could go-wondered why
girls went into company so young-found l
was growing sharp faced and sharp spoken,
and was becoming old maidish in the worst
sense of the word, because I was an old
maid against my will. [ forgot that volun-
tary celibacy never affects the temper.
Ny sisters be it remembered were older
than I. They, too, were single. But they
had lived more domestic lives than had
read fewer works of fction--had been cul-
tivating their own natures, and seeking to
make everybody around them happy. And
everybody reverenced them, and loved to
look upon their open, pleasant countenances
I mean everybody worth pleasing-and
they were very happy.
At last our good parents died, and left
each of us little independence. Within
year [ was married.
I was married for my money. That was
ten years ago, and they have been ten years
of purgatory.
I have had bad luck as wife, for my
husband and [ have scarcely one taste in
! common, He wishes to live in the country
which I hate I like the thermometer at
100, which he hates. He likes to have the
children brought up at home instead of
school, which | hate. [ like music, and
want to go to concerts, which he hates
There is but one thing which we both like.
and that is what we cannot both have,
though we are always trying for 1.-THE last
word.
I have had bad luck as a mother. for two
such huge, selfish, passionate, unmanagea
BILE boys never tormented feeble woman
since boys began. | wish [ had named
them both Cain At this moment they have
Just quarrelled over their marbles Morti-
mer has torn off Orvill's cellar, and Orvill
has applied his colt like heel to Mortimer's s
ribs, while the baby, Zenobia, in my lap,
who never sleeps more than half an hour at
a time, she awake. Having been reused by
their din to scream in chorus.
[ have had bad luck as house-keeper,
for never kept even chambermaid more
than three weeks. And as to cooks, look
back bewildered on the long plantasmagoria
of faces fitting stormily through my kitch-
en-, as mariner remembers a rapid success
sion Of thutstlcr t,rtp and h,,r ti1r
Gulf of Mexico. AIy new cbambermaid
bounced out Of the room yesterday, flirting
h,r duster, and muttering, Real old maid
after ALL" Just because I showed her table
N which | could write "a name" with my
niger IN the dust
never see my plump happy sisters, and
then glance at the mirror at my own ca
daverous long, doleful visage, without wish
ing myself an old maid I do it every day
of my life.
Yet half of my sex marry as I did-not
for love, but for fear for fear of dying old
maids.
They have their reward And they
Whose idle tongues create this mischevous
fear, and thus make so much domestic mise
ry, have their responsibility.
SENATORIAL PoRTRAITs.-The Washing
ton correspondent of the Cincinnati COM
naerciaz contributes to the column of that
sheet the following pen and ink sketch of
some of the more prominent of our present
Federal Senators:
Il looked in upon the Senate to-day
General Cass is ponderous old fellow, with
massive head, which he covers with rusty
old brown wig, and keeps opening and shut
ting his mouth and sucking his breath be-
tween, as if he constantly tasted something
disagreeable. John Clayton is more enor-
NOUS than Gen Cass. and his face, though
fat, is magnificent. He is the best looking
man in the Senate, and laughs heartily at
intervals from two to five minutes. His
hair is rs white as snow, and his big eyes
glisten all the time with intelligence and
humor Seward is as stalwart in appear
ance as pair of tongs. He does not weigh
more than hundred pounds. His hair is
short and looks dead; his eyes are hidden
behind pair of gold spectacles. His face
is thin, pale and wrnkled but its lines are
firm. and he appears, in reality, to be what
he is-a man of restless intellect. Senator
the waistband, through not uncomfortably
heavy His face is bright, and his hair.
which he wears long and in singular con-
fusion, is white as newly washed lambs
wool. Hale's appearance indicates that he
has been fed literally on fat pork and but
ter. Pugh looks younger when among the
the old, bald or whitehead, big bellied Sena-
tors than ever before saw him. Amajority
of the Senators has naked patches on the
top Of their heads, and quite half of them are
the opposite of slender They chew tobacco
very much as other folks, so far as l could
discover, and Immediately after adjourn
ment several of them lit segars and leaning
back appeared to feel comfortable.
Doctor" said a somewhat nervous per-
son to an eminent physician, my daughter
has had terrible fit this morning she con-
continued for full half an hour without know
ledge or understanding"