The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-25
Beware, beware,
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OLD MAIDS.
Il, Ell Pcrkinsv Sees Them al
Saratoga,

n, Ell Perkins" Sees Them al
Saratoga.
Letter to New York Graphlc.l
see a good many cold maids" every
day here in Saratoga, hut they all seem to
be different. There's the Young d" old
maid," the old old maid" the disappoint.
ed /" old maid" the flirting g old maid"
and good many others.
YorYG OLD MAIDS.
To-day young "old maid" told me
she was just 90. know she is 50, but she
appeared all artficials and pearl powder.
and as girlish as a II year-older
Would you like to go and sec the Indi-
ans, Miss Mollic ?" | asked.
"Oh wouldn't I? I'm wild to 60,
she replied, passonately clasping her hands
and looking up with childish JOY. Then.
girishly tossing her head of ringlcts and
showing her beautiful teeth, too regular for
natural, she friskcd up to her room, put on
a little lily-white, and came down girlishly
flirting her chip hat in her hand.
- I've been distracted TO go-perfectly
wild. Mr. Perkins. how do you like this
hat! Too sweet for anything, isn't it?
and lust think ma don't like it, and that
makes me rave about it all the more and
Oh glorious I've got such n Joke on
George and Julia to tell you Nil" And
this is the gushing way the young " old
maid ratified on.
Disappointed in love-" Oh. no
She was never disappointed. She never
cared to get married, but year after year
she takes up with palmer and older beaux.
till now she is willing to go with even me
If will only get her an occasional partner
for the waltzes
THE OLD OLD MAID.
met her talking al the spring with her
aged father
+" am old and passee," she said" 40
years old You don't want to walk with
me when you can talk to the young and
frivilous." Then she took her fathers
arm, held up her plain black dress, and
asked me if | took any interest in the st
Thomas Sabbath School, and then begged
me to say good word for her favorite
charity, the Sheltering Arms"
"Do you read novels, or go to the the
atre, Miss Vaughn ?" / asked.
"Oh no, Mr.. Perkins, my theatre days
are over. | go TO church musicals and
scientific lectures. When you call up
will show you my wax flowers and the
beautiful Bible presented me by my Sun
day School class and then casting
plying glance at party of young ladies
with novels in their hands, she took off her
one-buttoned glove, opened her little fan,
and commenced reading Harvey's Medi-
tatiOna."
THE DIsAPPoISTED OLD MATT.
She was once beautiful and sprightly,
but now her pale, sad face seems ever
turned toward the past. The future IL
nothing, the present but n fleeing dream
Once Miss Lincoln had lover. handsome
blonde fellow, generous and impulsivc. One
day he didn't call, and that night she heard
of him at fair with the beautiful and rich
Miss Gray Then she wrote George
Gliding letter. :" II you 90 with any one,
don't go with such looking thing as she.
George showed ii 10 Miss Gray in q thought
less moment, and then came q note
"Why don't Miss Lincoln win her lover
back from such a looking thing =" Then
in rash moment. burning with indigna-
ton. she did up Georges letters and lock
of hair and ring and faded rose, and sent
them with only this inscription " George
r. Lawrence, Esq" Then came tears, re-
grets, and each crucitied their love on the
altar Of pride.
She doesn't dance, Miss Lincoln doesn't,
nor promenade, but all day long she sits
sadly with her dear father, only thinking
and dreaming of her sweet beautiful love
life. now clouded and obscure
THE FLIRTING OLD MAID.
Born coQuette, and still flirting. Once
beautiful and brilliant, but now her face il
red and her voice is changing. Now she
takes morning rides down to the lakes with
rich old widowers, drinks her champagne,
and does not care who questions the pro-
priety OF it. She is manager shrewd
and sharp. She has broken n hundred
hearts looking for the one great conquest
which never came. " He must have money,
brains and he must be handsome" Alas
he never came hut once. She won him.
toyed with him. leased him, loving him all
the time, till one day, impatient, piqucd
and passionate. he went away. Now she
walks into the ballroom like queen,
Magnificent dresses, stylish and dreadfully
decollete, hut underneath all is the look
blase.
What do you think of all this tall;
about handled good and low-necked
dresses, Miss Marshall | asked.
40 Low-neck dresses Pshaw what
do the Yankee girls know about low-neck
dressesy Why, Bessie Brown wore a dress
at the queens drawing-room with hardly
any body on ii at all. Why, if she should
just wear that dress here at Congress hall,
one night, the old women would faint and
the fellows would 60 wild.
And the handled goods. Miss Mar
shall?"
Pshaw, what prudery! How wretch
eddy slow our atrocious, high-necked, an
tediluvian women are getting. Talk to
Mollic Brown and |. Why, should just
like to see the girl who loyed fellow hon.
estly who ever got made because he put his
arms around her and kissed her a little, Ii
he loved her, he'd be goose if he didn't
Why, its the aiIectionate handled girls
who always get married, while the squeam-
ish, cold, iccbergy girls always turn out old
maids And 80 the flirting old maid
ratified on Eli PERKINS.
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