Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1874-12-09

about wlthcred leaves and blasted hopes
and the awful significance of the fading
November We would have spent a
whole day in Druid Hill Park" and
"mixt
Our ftucies with the sallow-riftrd glooms
OF evening, and the mornings of the wind"
And then we would have wandered
home, and mounting numbcrless flights
of stairs, whichmight have jostled down
or jostlcd out the harmony of our
thoughts, wo uould have lighted our
students lamp, we would have seated
ourself before an open wood fire, and,
gazing awhile into the light thereof, a
soft melancholy would have stolen over
us made harmonious by fitful gusts out
side; and then-unless you be made of
stone--we would have penned some lines
that-well, THE Pleasures of Melan-
choly' of Irving" Poor devil author
wouldn't hove been circumstance. -
And as the mater of this poor devils
poem is not given to the reader, so your
Imagination may work up at leisure what
our effusion would have been. Give
thanks, meanwhile, that you were spared
the agony
But joking aside, one does feel as
though one should be in the country on
some of the days we have had a gun,
a ride on horseback, listless lolling
wherever fancy may select, solitary
musings, autumn-day revcries, not alto
gether meaningless as some reveries are,
but tinged with that melancholy which
does in fact make harmony. 1t is such
breaks in this work-day city life which
gives to life itself. harmony. However,
enough of this. We don't propose to get
sevious, nor airtw this fit of melancholy
to grow over us. 1t is too late in the
season as we have said. Every thing
and every body is braced upand prepar-
ing for the winter campaign, so we will
go into the street and reflect on shops,
women or whatever We may pick up.
The shop windows look brilliant and
well-stuffed and the shop men seem brisk
and lively, and this is about all that can
be said from casual glance; nor do |
see how any reflections can be made
hereupon. But about the shop girls
some men might grow eloquent, though
for my part | cant see that shop girls
here are as much ON good looks as in
some cities | have been in. One of the
sweetest looking beings | ever saw, was
a shop girl in Philadelphia. | went in
to purchase piece of blue ribbon, and
you know how long it takes to find the
proper shades of blue. But about all
these shop girls, flower girls or it is as
IN the incident related by De Quincy in
his Stage coaches in England" You
never see them long enough at a time to
have the charms with which you clothe
them dispelled by seeing them eat or
anything of the sort. | wonder if
Holmes would have been so gushing
about that chambermaid if the matter of
the lost key had been discussed over the
last course at dinner instead OF III hotel
corridor. | wonder too if that relation
of mine who used to be such an admirer
OF confectionery girls ever saw that little
four-and-a-half street girl eat But to
return to the streets of Baltimore. The
streets are particularly the thing at those
periods of the day when the ladies are
out IN full blast, | think Baltimore holds
Its reputation for pretty women rather
from their outdoor than indoor appear
ance; though Heaven forbid that should
insinuate they don't look divine on every
occasion. suppose the reason is the
ladies' here appear on the street so well
ana sometimes so deliberately dressed /;
another argument in explosion of the