Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-19
what BefeIl q Nashville Lady Yester-
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Miss -- went out on the street yes
terday. Now there was nothing unusual
in this, for she had done the same thing
many times previously: indeed, many
Young men in the city would feel as though
sudden blight had fallen upon their lives
| if the handsome young lady in question
should fail to take her usual afternoon
promenade; but never before had such ter.
rible results followed, as those which at
tended the little expedition of yesterday,
now to be chronicled as fearful warning
to those who are disposed TO sneer at those
who have faith in presentiments-for there
are such people. This young lady of whom
we speak, has many friends-friends who
have watched over her from infancy, gazing
upon her with their hearts swelling with
joy as they have seen her bloom into
bright and glorious woman
hood, watching her course
through life with feelings of the deepest
concern and solicitude, and when these
friends noticed, upon the occasion referred
to, that she was preparing to sally forth,
conqueripg and to conquer, their hearts
fell within them, for they were impressed
with terrible sense of impending danger;
mysterious something weighed upon
their hearts and told them that if the object
of their affections carried out her design,
she and they would deeply regret it, and
that hours of sorrow and anguish would
surely follow.
Feeling thus, they gathered about their
idol and urged and implored her, with all
the eloquence of love, to remain indoors.
But their well -neant efforts were unaVail-
ing. The young lady had determined upon
a promenade, and promenade she would.
''A boys will is the winds will"
But this cannot be said of Woman's will
not by any manner of means, for her
will is as immutable and Interchangeable as
the laws of the Afedes and Persians, and
when she says she will do a certain thing,
that thing is done, and when she says she
will not do . thing the chances are that she
does not,
This being one of the well-known char
acteristics of the sex, no one viii be sur
prised to learn that this Nashville young
lady carried her point in spite of the earn
est protestations of her friends. Downing
her best apparel, she left the paternal
abode full of bright hopes and joyous an
ticipations-the personifcation of female
grace and loneliness, to return to that shell
tering roof one short half hour later
q respondent, hesrt-broken creature, her
bright hopes fed, and life presenting to
her nothing but gloom and blank despair,
for ia that brief space Of time she had been
shorn Of "wOman's browning glory"-her
beautiful wealth of curls, which were at
once the joy and pride of her worshipping
family.
The finale is a sad one, from the nara
ton of which the pen shrinks, but the du-
ties Of a journalist frequently require the
recital Of stories which wiring his sensitive
mind. In this case, suffice it to say, that
this maiden's superabundance of golden
tresses (Which had cost her papa $50 in
currency had, in some unaccountable man
ner, become detached from the head of the
fair owner as she tripped lightly along the
crowded thoTOughfare, and it is altogether
likely that the young lady will now be
compelled to remain at home until the loss
can lie replaced through the medium of
the hair dresser's skill.