Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-01-13

| II pond if we wouldn't have 'em them
be no water for 'em to fought on
Law Massey! Wouldn't We catch lots of
fish Then where the ocean use to was,
Tide plant In Irish taters and punkins.- sa
That's what | call internal Imprudence.' pa
| don't believe in these Internal Impruden- gr
ees and particularly those Eternal ones, he
SIGH as sons of temptation. They takes
away a mans abilities-they say we should W
not drink good liquor-its our worst enc m
my. Thunder and concobs Why we is ii
commanded to love our enemies, and | 90 st
in for just pouring it down. There's an v
other tribe of i~mprudence Idon't like, and a
that arc these Internal ones,-sich as steam tt
gines run by railroad gines-I rid on one n
once and the way it did blow / felt as j.
if my curiosity would excite my animosity C
it got to turnin and turned so fast till +
it came to a turn 10 the road it almost made
ne p go through a vigorous process
of upheavel. But in spite of all these in
juries our country is just succeeding. Soon
our American Eagle that has SO often
"glanced in the rising and setting sur"
will unfold his ~plunigerous p~ivnions and
eyolvorate through the trackless regions of
etherialized spacitude, and insert its extri-
eating bill into the extremity of the North
Pole, and spread his epidemic wings over
all this sublunary %terrene, like an antigua
ted specimen of female shanghighety does
her i~nfautile poultry.
The next upon the programme is matter
o-money. Everybody is trying to get mar
ried that can, and them that can't is trying
fOO Nh oatolCr,a cavu tbak Mr. Adam &
was the first man that was put in the gar
den of Edom. Adam thought there was
something lacking-he perambulated its
outrageous walks from early moon till
dcwy eve.'
ole shed whole pints ofbitter tears
And wiped EN- with his sleeve"
Miss Eve stepped in one evening, and
then Adam was in Paradise. Adam asked
her would she have him, and she didn't
say like the women do now-a-days-"go
ask pa but she said, yes stree! Then
Adam led her to the conjugal altar of n.y.
mentality and there they became one and
the same animal, except Eve, like most of
women, got a little longer tongue than
Adam, and as they very uphoniously ex-
press it ga woman's privilege and if you
J, don't believe they take a privilege with
it-just make one mad if you dare, and
|, she'll use you up a little of the quickest
, but for all that women is one of the grea
! test things that ever wore sh- slippers
: O! woman woman woman II! how
i, do love you. O!-I-pshaw | can't ex
pressify myself love you better than
. dog does his dinner. Why my great Grand
y mother was a woman. And the gals too
: are galvanizing all the boys-is sucI
! things to be unprecedented +? My dea
y friend, were you ever in love? Jerusalem
70 but you were in a pxedicarism. | fell i
y love once. | felt as if | was at the end {
=. q rope kicking the air, with "a cat in m
- hat and a peck of yaller jackets under m
% w~aiscoat !! Double distilled essence (
g sour-crought! but the gal was magnetizin
10 she was mild as a domesticated hyent
Nv she walked like an enchanted g%oslin-
,, the amaranthine splendors of her radiar
ne physiognomy impeted luctiferous cogit
tons and atrious solicitudity to fugitat
* like apple dumplins at log rollin-picke
punkins how she could sing-her voit
im was sweeter than the Emusic ofthe spheres
or the mewing Of forty tom cats all in fu
"a, fur for a row. San Jehoakim! how 81
ecu could play the fddle-her music was swe
enough to make Peggy Ninny break he
n.y. fiddle and Apollo hide behind the moon
Pc Oh it was the julep of my dreams and Il
Cal noodle soup of my making-that gal tn
= gal ! those gal !! If l had as many liv
auo as Plutarch, Pde spend 'em all for her
pen yes, Pde commit susancides.
The next thing is-something else.
ey- Fashions, did you say Itamblerates frc
err ri the highest ranks of men to the blackC
al niger with his sundy-go to-meetin sh
on. Why, just look at the young m
nowadays, they dress fine enough to m'
ies netize a mice, and they'll go into #
PIN cornered pitts or hexagonal Mysteries
they amt dressed as fine as a red fd
Is with a blue ribbon in it. They used
'Ks have these amphibious, sudiferous, or
big, four horse standing collars, high as
nat hind end of a Virginia tobacco wagon,
say now they have an institution called Birc
tne wide enough to reach from Pills kitcl
INC to Haunah's cottonpatch.
TOD Cigars they'll smoke and glasses dash,
Ill Empty pockets aud got no cash
- FINE KIDS thar save tnelf nandS from dirt
tue And stately studs stabbed on their shirt;
With their tight legged pants and Il
flea shanghai coats,
Old And hair on their faces like a parcel of &C
;o;tu But the women-they Hdisengage
- dilapidated linnen from the i~nfantile tx
1;s.a. they're gottin bigger and bigger with
.bon monstrous running institution Gale
49, hoops.
nply, "Ioops when their sturdy clasps confn,
rnose In brown old casks, the richest wines.
"a be Are objects of admiration =
But hoops as q part of woman's baggag
Are like the whoops of a painted say
IL A vile abomination."
q | like plumpness and roundity
Neh;. enough in their propar places, but
J wo sense is there in being so dreadfully
!, "a cular about their pedal extremities !?
- ifa fellow wants to walk with EN- or
,t"oL. to 'em, or court 'em, he amt got a |
hack,
nation "For instead of timidly drawing near
guage And pouring into the thrilling ear
The food of his souls devotion,
He must stand and below in thunder
thick Across a half acre of skirts and bones
As if hailing a ship on the ocean.
Aud If by chance the maid of his choi,
times. Should family hear her lovers voice