The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-27

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would seem from this, are now. on the stool
of repentance Cambridge Aid.) Herald.
t.. Am Old Maids Views. ~ aah /
Some one who avows herself an old maid
takes very cheerful and satisfactory view
of her social situation in the. Troy Times.
Her views will be of interest to many
1t always astonishes me when take a
realizing sense of the, fact that am on old
maid Why, you'll scarcely believe it
when confess that I once had lovers by
the legion, and offers were as numerous as
firtations are :now-a-days. i was always
in love. don't remember the time when
I had not some William or Frank, to dream
about ,and write loye-letters to-; and as l
donned my long dresses some handsome
Charles Augustus was sure to keep my
thoughts employed until another with greater
fascinations superseded him. You need
not Imagine regret them now. No, in
dsed My life is pleasant. one. No one
annoys me. No husband Airts with other
mems wives or young girls, breaking my
heart. No husband calls me "my love"
| in company, an " old brute" at home He
does not growI at milliners' bill or extrava-
CANT wardrobes. He never sits looking at
me, wishing I were as handsome as Mrs.
B. or Miss J. - He does not wish
my eyes were as divinely blue and my hair
as charmingly golden as Katie's, over the
way. He never casts sly glances at pretty
girls, throwing them kisses when my back
is turned. He DOESN'T marvel how he ever
came to marry me when there were 30
many handsome women in the world. If
am i'll, he is not wondering how weeds
would become him, and if he should be
obliged to have an expensive funeral. He
isn't thinking what jolly widower he
would make, and how eager pretty Jennie
r would be to marry him, or how
gladly Flora j. would lift up her be-
witching brown eyes and promise to be his.
He does not complacently. fondle his ele-
CANT moustache before the mirror, and
think every one must pity him, and regret
(girls especially that 80 handsome man
should be bound to so plain-looking q wo-i
man. He isn't watching me continually
| to see if I fulfill all my duties as
wife; to criticise my every movement
to be annoyed at the weakness Of
the tea, the toughness of the steak, or the
lateness of the breakfast. Thank the
| gods-no! am o free woman. do
please, 90 where please, think, breathe,
sneeze, wink, eat, and sleep, as please.
Old Mother Hubbard had her dog, Dame
Crump had her pig, but I have my cat
An intellectual animal, too one. that has
more natural intelligence than many
children. Tabby and l enjoy ourselves
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Cross word; neither do /. Together
we sit and think hours at o time, by the
open CRATE, and draw great morals from
the fire within. Tabby has o quiet tenn
permanent, and VIC never quarrel. often
hear people exclaim that old maids are
always gossips. Not 80. don't care If
Mary Jane has stolen another girls beau.
I never feel interested in the cost of Su-
sans new bonnet or Jennie's silk dresses.
do not wonder that Mrs. c. should be
extravaganza, or that Miss c. should firt
80 much. What do I care? Tabby and I
occasionally remark upon the folly and stu
pidity of certain persons, but we do not
mention it out of our own family. My cat
| is not communicative neither am /.
Yesterday / met one Of my old lovers.
Once he praised my eyes, my lips, the
beauty of my hair, the freshness of my
manners. He professed to love me, but
| he met prettier girl and gayer young
| man, and 80 We parted. He is married
| now, has a cross, faded wife and seven
| children. He looks old and weary. felt
| sorry for him, but | smiled at my folly in
even wasting one thought upon him. Would
| l give up my jolly life Of an old maid
Never My hair is growing gray, but I
don't use ssHall's Hair Restorative" My
face has some wrinkles in it, but I don't
use ssLaird's Bloom Of YOUTH" My
/ fingers. are not white and soft and
/ dimpled, but I do not battle them with
"cold cream /" and wear old kids. don't
tear out my hair with crimpers. never
! wear long trails that sweep the ground for
half mile. do not wear humps on my
back, and double up with the fashionable
Grecian bend" | don't have to wear eye
glasses and pretend am near-sighted. l
| am not obliged to wear butterfy's wing on
| my head in February, freezing my ears
| until they are purple. I don't have to 90
shivering ia low-necked dresses, nor howl
| opera music until my throat is sore, nor
my tongue out endeavoring to learn Ger
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| master. I am not under the painful neces-
sity Of squeezing my hands in No. gloves
when seven is my number, nor do pinch
my feet in little shoes until existence seems
burden. do not have to sing Italian
ditties in "a languishing manner to some
sentimental youth in tight pants and
waxed moustache. am far more indie
pendent in my plain merino, with my hair
in o little knot, than Miss Flora McFlim-
sey is in her silks and sparkling diamonds.
can look at gay young man, and he
does not 6atter himself that ! am dying
for love Of him. | can 90 to church and
listen to the sermon, not caring for the
stylish hats and handsome dresses Of my
neighbors, can enjoy my friends sue
oesses and riches, feeling no envy. I can
see lovers kiss their sweethearts good night
without psng. ~.
Professor Scoutetten, Of Metz, has writ
ten to the Paris Academy Of Medicine on
the subject Of cutaneous absorption. He
maintains that the skin when healthy
does not absorb and that no bath whatever
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