The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-26
single Women.
From the Cincinnati commerolalI

Ma.r;mopy is o melancholy road which
All. except old maids and old bachelors, :
must sooner or later travel. dare say !
, suTs contend they wouldn't, bat don't be-
l;eve lem. It doesn't stand to nature, OF
| 20 reason either. Lucretius, who did not
believe in the Immortality OF the sour,
thought that the human oody Mas M tha on ~
IF LAYERS like ON onion, and that the QUIZ
most and thinnest coat being loosened anu
.at free. by death, haunted the grave OF the
Tsrson v6o had worn it in life. This queer
notion Of Lucretius occasionally comes lnS9
|. h:cbeior. They seem to me, certain OF
! these single folks, to be the mere outer, OF
i. ached iayer of the onion, haunting ana
9 lowering about the grave OF their departe "a
youth. can't helpit II DO tnink OF IL. ~
% iau't my fault that they are ihe 'ne ou'o'"o
l. vesterdny met an outside layer o! an
r o,;on On Fourth street. 1t was iady-an
ls old young lady, dressed 10 that queer sort
q of way which always .oTSS She was richly
y aressed. too, and fashionably. But people
a. iooLea at her oh the street, and now ano
10, then acme waggish looking limb OF tne
to masculine gender would siy.y nuuge, sns
he eihow of his neighbor and say sometnine
o. and smile. Her department was euninently
Dr. proper and becoming, 700. AZ WASH ~"
e's Senortment. It was her de- paint mens
in She was painted like winter oouqa y.
'he which she was. her isce ~os saod Sso
IT.. pink, and her eyebrows were painted t aSe
,rk Hack. Her eyebrows were what I'm talk
ain inc about, These luxuriane, DARK eye
on- hrova be9ap at the place where eyeoro"
10 are mostly accustomed TO oegin' LIE hS
'ws swept In graceful curves, deeply aarS''
"ept;fnliy black toward the temples
,ar- s"a. all verv we'll, 60 far. But the lady d
hes not possess an accurate eye 10 nS'au tS J
leir One eyebrow was about an cigntn y,
was inch higher than the oener' "i' ."
TO the joke came In. f,on;ar In n
who life. 1t would have brought smne 70
Ion face Of o man on his way TO Do nuns
married. 1t would have made man I s,n
IL he had been at the lnneFai ~ u , us crs
In law. To see that poor old young cre
tnre mincing along there in all the elega
conscionsuess of being nicely dressed,
~ Sne bia hump upon her back, Jauoty
need tie cut,away hat upon her ne% %,,h ana IL
tbe fue black eyebrow away up higner u
tne ths other. was iast too much. don't
q oI nSSodv's narSon for telling how Tidl
u po Ions shs looked She ought to be t4id
70, S s tell on her 10 the hope that sue Will p"
,dral her eyebrows straight next Sne. foot
80 There was something about every leaI
lexo and movement of this old young Wou
Iii, which told q story of disappointmenS
8 ~, neevishuess, of restlessness, ana oil Gun
,dsEe aimessness. In some ways 5 mere Sor % man
pa ;.s os long daT, laughed at the eyebrows, VIZ
49, like the old farmers clock, were &c
lbLOnS ANS -. - l,anauae L couldn't hell
each out Oh KelOeLLr - an ma aid It.
udui- 1t was the O t.lt l Sor avabroyvs. there
the always eSceHSuS onoe1 which was
IN ms thing but Imaginable; There was ss al
rchie prossiOn in her Pallid, peeETl a1iDp n
Q, put which tnS t%a month and eyes, like
evfval come aoou ~, .uo I'D 1vorn the best pa
ich, at OF splris GnaS .;n,Tasa fretting behind
Q and itself OUT III La"o noticed the Same
ntries, prison. aES' Ia and many an elG
ton In the TACO vi H ~ ;y.lIs the same stoT
eadiDg single woman. AZ storv of q
ial po- each case-Sa aSSmh life with i,othsn
face Of man going tnrOUB" AS