Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-04-29

such chastisemehsa IN warrant she is thin
as rail, with nerves all dancing
like diseased teeth. Domestic bllssi
Humbue! To most signing dam
sells. is means husband and half a
dozen cherubs-Miss Clementine Percy
would probably designate them as cberu0si
l have examined the species from all points
Of The Compass, and have never been able to
discover any Of the angelic qualities that
would make such al appellation appropriate.
Put small paper of candy before two or
three Of them, and-well, you had better
look out for squalls. What good has Watts
hymn ever done? Yes, / am an old maid,
and although the expression, personally APP
piled, always causes slight writing of the
Internal organs, still there is not a day pass
es that do not thank heaven for my single
blessedness, and rejoice in my exemption
from the terrible alxieties of married life;
although i must admit that parents do
acquire an amount of philosophic composure
that is absolutely sublime. And they pity
me who am denied the sweetness of moth
hood. wonder if IL is this unnecessary ex-
cess of pity that induces them to transfer
the burden Of these sweetnesses so fire.
quently upon me. notice that they never
hesitate to transfer it upon every possible oc-
casion, and in half of the domestic estab-
lishments that know, there is some de-
voted single woman upon whom this SUI
gary burden always falls. The duties of
society cali out the married ones to dance
and fit ard enjoy themselves general
", while the unmarried victims stay
at home to sustain the sweetnesses
above mentioned, until the owners
thereof return. am not IS unsophisticated
as was few years ago. Then, when young
married ladies came to visit my sister, it
was astonishing what fancy they all took
to me. Cruel experience soon explained
the problem. Very soon it would be: 30,
Miss Angle, won't you look in once ortwice
this evening and see if Charley is sll right
when am at the pArty?" A meek acqui-
escence on my part, and the eUentng always
lasted until the "Wee sma' hours" which
poetical period would find me fuming and
fussing over an irate child, that frequently
capped the climax by holdingi its breath Until
black in the face. l think an experienced
this kind would slightly dampen the enthu-
siasm of those who are in the habit of apos-
trophizing the species as little angels, Sc
raphic musings, etc. l was told that an en-
ergetic application of the right hand was a
certain cure for this amiable idiosynorasy.
So tried it one night, and then, with grim
satisfaction, informed the doting parent upon
her return. OF course there was scene,
but it did not nave the effect so fondly anti.
cpated by me. Consequently, now, when
hear that 3 young woman is coming here,
with the sweetnesses of motherhood strongly
developed, 1 Immediately pack my trunk
and try q change of climate. l suppose l
am very selfish and ill-natured, but it is not
the fault CT my friends. will give them
full credit for their ingenuity in striving to
exercise and develop in me the spirit of self
sacrifice towards them. tits not funny to
be an old maid, and sometimes wish that
had been in love with some one of my
numerous suitors, merely that might have
little romance to look back upon. But no,
there is not one single bunch of hair or dried
grass to lay upon my bosom when am dead,
nor the miniature of any man with hair
brushed both ways over the forehead, for
me to weep over. But l am sincerely thank
full that that insignia of tripled infancy does
not hang upon my clothes-line.