The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-03-28
Only a Woman's Hair.

Yes, it is only wOman's halr-sOft
| and silBen and brown. To you it is but
faded tress, but to me it cannot fade,s
| for the love which sanctifes it, is eternal
aud cannot know decay or death.
! 1t was once somewhat brighter than
it is now, but then my life was brighter
too, and the poor, little lock of soft,
brown hair keeps its freshness better
| than the heart v hich loves it, and the
| hand which foudles it in these evil days.
It flowed then over neck graceful as
the lily stem, ant pure whiteas the lily
flower; it danced coquettishly then,
when sweet girlish laughter bubbled
| out upon the air, and it was scented with
the breath of orange blossoms, AMI
| dewy With the kisses Of the warm south
wind that ripple over the blue waters
of the Gulf. 1t was happy then as the
pure young heart of its maiden mistress,
| and seemed to smile as the sIlnbeams
shimmered Overit, and the moon laid
| her golden glory on its glossy waves.
Il gg-BHts now the breath of orange bios
som liy-s only among sad memories,
and the blue Gulf has vanished in the
dim distance and the soft tendrils seem
to twine thems Ives about my heart,
with yearnin = loneliness, as if they
would draw me on into the grave, where
she and I and they could be once more
aslssa 4saisbBI. BIffiSQiL1 ] iSssQilaL Ia tn. deep
brown eyes, and listened to the low
voiced tones of another woman, Thought
tresses this was taken. She, too, had
soft, brown eyes, and gentle voice that
made music of the humblest words, but
the ghostiy years that have rushed off
Into the dark, since her eyes looked into
mine, and the phantom joys which have
| faded since hervoice fell like blessing
on my hot young heart, [ do not care to
count. --
II seems o long, long time, though
could count the years and the Joys on
my fingers.
Yes, it is only woman's hair, but the
yioIets and the buttercups blossom
above the beautiful head from whence
it came, and the little hands that sever
ed it, and tied that bit of faded ribbon
over q white bosom that knows no heart
throbbings. 1t is only a woman's hair
to you trife, thing of slight signifi-
canoe, but when they carry ME to my
last home, I will sleep better if that be
laid upon my, heart and buried with me.
'y1lLlLLE
Are Men and Women Fond of Each
-a -- .-.. Other?
A French lady of high literary and
social distinction is credited with the
remark that but one thing reconciled
her to being awonan, and that was that
she would not have to marry a woman.
Unmindful of this little bit of expe-
rience, the Pail Mall Gazette London)
has been greatly exercised over the
problem whether men are more inter
esting to men than women, and whether
women find more in women to interest
them than they do in men," The Ga
zette, after having thoroughly sifted
the matter, comes to the conclusion that
the pretended fondness of the two sexes
for one another is the great fundamental
hypocrisy of the race.
The Gazette says 'It would be un-
fair to dwell too much on the circum-
stance that they can make one another
uncomfortable IN way that men never
make men nor women women, taking
that fact by itself. This might be a
mere result of their being different
But a review of the whole case tends to
establish general incompatibility be-
tween the TWO. H 1mngS Will nave 10
alter very much if men and women are
to get a aong well together. The pre-
tence that they are dying of sheer hk-
ing for one another is not only not prov
ed, it is disproved. Not merely is that
kind of mortality wholly absent from
the returns, but after all these centu-
ries the two sexes greatly keep aloof
from one another" That will strike
IO1-a-ciaE cx-ofTo an6 a.,
@a9 cnr6ns iGfsop Siosopby T Bnt % We afn % let es
the Gazette present its theory, and then
the reader may pass upon,it as may s1lit
his or her whim. That paper says: sa11
s'Whenever you can get glimpse of
their true tendencies, it comes out clear
" enough that men and women are do
mestic creatures under compulsion. All
kinds of social contrivances have been