The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-01
"As Is The LIGHT OF A DARK 1YE
In WOMAN"

Tor the sunday crsscsntI ga HM
Gentle world, to you write.
The day is as dsrk as the 'cistern-bottoms OF
Pluto's refnery-when he hollis down the evil
done in the flesh, and takes on 9 strike to
sweeten his birthstone with. Were you ever In
Arkansas, high up on White River. "sn hit q rain
inn If nav you can't exactly arrive at the right
degree of gloom by which to characterize 1t. Rest
satisfied therefore with my judgment in the pre-
mis- es, and consider 1t to be the drearest. dulest
and altogether most desolste day that ever did
day, snd you will be somewhere in the neighbor.
hood of the desolation thereof. Under. The In.
fuence of this particula lar circHmstantal commune
ture, always become sentimental and sigh for
lovely woman. -
Lovely woman, and peculiarly lovely dark-eyed
woman, is q weakness of mine. have many
weaknesses, most worthy world. and what is
more am not ashamed Of them; but this especial
not exchange the entire totality, or the total
entirety of strength with which otherwise have
been endowed by Mature; for
"Her prentice ham
She tried on man - 'H-
An then she made the iasses, o"
And be is poor Judge Of shoemsking indeed
who wouldn't prefer bottle Of Krug to poto-
mac herring-don't you think SO, gentle world'
Jocko has had pretty rough life Of il, dear
world, and has been knocked and tumbled about
good deal in the course Of it but he has always
been able to find comfort at the hands OF lovely
woman. 1t may be that am undaly alive to
such sensations, but the mere sight OF q
womans face il il be pretty, or OF her figure, II
il be fine, will bring the sun from behind
the clouds with degree of agility which would
have even surprised old Calico, for ell his insist
ing on the lively habits of bodies astronomical.S
| She has a soothing power over me-lovely
| woman has-which gives q pleasure very nigh
akin to pain Il may form sn
words) which occasionally develops Itself IN the
corner of my left eye when melancholy fit over.
| takes me in her presence. Lovely woman Is SO
lovey-she is so untitled to take care OF nerselI,
| upon her own resources; she is-when unmarried
| -snd young (say on an average about lo)-she Is
| SO innocent, 80 delicate, so like flower, snow
crystal. rose cloud at sunset-she Is 80 utterly
fragile and so certainly doomed to change that Il
is as though gazing into the uncertain certainty Oh
| night from the confines of the morning, or seeing
death at bridal, when look at lovely woman
and think Of the years that are coming along.
II would be hard for me to say definitely wnlcn
one OF lovely woman's separate charms think
the charmiest. The eye, the nose-no, we won
say the nose-I never saw nose yet whlcn wouio
bear lingering on, and, In charm, lingering on u
plesses about "sitting on rocks, and musng o'er
1ood.ing and fell-ing,n but for my part give me
velvet sofa to sit on Il hate horse. chair, 1t Away
slips SOY and for the subject of my musing give mt
lovely woman! The lips and cheeks are amont
my chief fsvorites, especially with dimples
but the hair, If it is thick and soft
with bewitching uncertainty whether 1t b
really perfectly straight or not, and then TOO IN
cbin-both these are charms whose claims are D,
no means to be sighted. Even lovely woman,
hand has an expression of its own, and when
rests on glossy satin that tries very hard to seen
smoother but gives up in despair, or when II ling
ers gently on some fossy fnery into which
sinks as softly as flake on the wafer, OF wnen
| nestles half concealed IN lace hundred years oil
and creamy tinted enough to be thousand.
when lovely woman's hand goes through will
any of these maDeuvers, Tor fifty more that
might mention, when 1t does this and Is BONA no
a lovely hand, why then it is just SIMPLY. and .
speak without circumlocution, one OF the killing
est things known unto man.
After ALL perhaps, it is only the great eterna
fact of woman, which is the secret OF the wnoi
affair. Ii lis her influence which In Its periec
beauty doth inform stiffness with love aud ds
| with light" and what would otherwise be mer
: vegetable growths of passably interesting chaI
scter when once invested with this woman-spel
history books say, and some few of Us may hav
known what the lawyers call "corroooraun
| facts"
ON looking over this article find have con
pletely put its eyes out, and though began
write especially for the purpose OF saying SOM
thing about those beautiful, and at the same tim
useful organs, that have filed up my paper On
said nothing. The fact is, most exceedingl
worthy world, l am not altogether to blame. Oh
| of the last specimens of eyes had before comm
| TO White river wss from Malvina, and she Is sue
q dreadful coquette. and her eyes say SO mar
7 things at once, and they say them SO many dife
ent ways, that on coming to think the matter ov
with a view to a general description OF eye
. foundered somewhat on those individual spec
| MEMS nv ideas became alarmingly confused, al
. made up my mind had better leave eyes slon
/ or would run the risk of making as great mu
die of the description as the eyes did OF me gene
b ally when last {" viewed their magic spheres"
, With which most excellent excuse / will b,
q leave, gentle world, to cease writing to you-f
the present. Your servant. JocKo.