Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-01-10
VOL. LXXV.
MADGE MILLER.

From the Portland Transcript
Matge Miller, on a summer day,
Walked as usual, her pleasant way.
Her dress was tidy, her apron white;
Her face was sweet as the morning hight
She was a country village maid,
Learning a country mlliner's trade.
Her bands were soft bcr dress was clean
And little she knew what care might mean.
She said 'I'll work at uly pretty trade,
Aud live happy and free old maid
Lovers may come and lovers may 80,
iii have none of them, 10, no, no!'
But Il sutor came with tall silk hat;
He tod her story worth too of that.
The same old story by lovers told,
Since first the earth out of chaos rolled
u.et US kindly hope who are old and wise,
be did not know he was telling lies
Marry me, darling and you shall be
The happicst woman on land or sea
"No longer then will you have to 60
70 your daily labor through heat or snow.
1T shall be my pleasure, my law, my life,
T. make you blest aud happy wife.
Marry me, and you never shall know
4 sorrow or hardship, a care or Woe
She heard the story Of promised bliss
She waited. wavcred, and answ cred, Yes J.
Bright and big was the honey moon,
And c!ouded By worldly care too soon.
For housework led her its weary round,
Her fee, were tethered, her hands We're bound.
And children came with their small demands,
Fvltorug closer her burdened hands.
In her husbands mouse she came to be
A servant in all but salary.
Al her days whether foul or fair
We're eudess circles OF work aud care
And hall her uights-as up aud down
She walked the floor 10 her dressing gown,
flushing an aiug infant 8 screams,
lest it should break its fathers dreams;
And wash the dishes aud rub the knives
The lofty mission Of duteous wives
Or coakcd and doctored a sobbing child
Bv the pangs of earache driven wild
Were seasons of wakeful, nervous dread
So il at last o er her achiog head
The angel of sunbcr chanced to stoop,
He brought her visions OF mumps or Group;
And she rose unrested, and went once more
Through the dull routine Of the day before.
Week by week did she drudge, and toll,
Aud stew aud pickle, and roast aud boil,
And scrub and iron, and sweep aud cook,
Her only reading receipt book.
And bathe the children and brush their locks,
Button their aprons and pin their trocks,
And patch old garments and darn and mend
. weary worry that has no end
she lost her airy and sporlive ways
The pretty charm of her girllsh days
For how can playful fancy rove
When once tied up TO cooking stove?
Her lace was old ere she reached her prime,
Faied and carc-woru before its time.
Sometimes would her wel-kept husband look
Up from the page OF his paper or book,
Aud note how the bloom had left her face,
Aud palIld thlnness won Its place
How gray had mixed with her locks of brown
And her forehead gained growing trowu,
And say, She is ugly / declare
wonder ever thought her fair !!
Season by sca>oo, year by year,
Did she to'Iuw the round Of 'womau's sphere
Not vexing her husbands days or pights
by any mention of woman's rights,
Till she died at last-too severely tried
Her ic 5 one selfish dscd-she died,
Proud aud happy aud quite content
Win tue savlsh way her days were spent
Feeling, of course, that her life was lost
1 Aoby IN saving servants cost
ALL of all the sad thoughts Of women or men
The saddeSt is this, 1t needn't have been II
THE TURKISH MINISTER =. Aristarchi Bey,
the new turkish Minister, is short, thick
sci and amoud-cyed. with dark skin aud black
hair. Ii" /, about thlrty-ive and unmarried.
tie has coule to good place, said spright-
yyuung lady, for IN Washington there are
50 many girls uoprovidcd for and Turk, you
Su1W, can have as many wives as hls fancy
Chooses Perhaps, who knows, ons or more
OF the Mesiames Aristarchi Beys may be Au-
eTcan womeu for 'our girls will saclice al
most everything rational for foreign titledom.
Al one OF the Germans the other night, the
h"y, not being as copvcrsaut with. our own
S''lu"tte as his own, lped himself bouutltnI-
10 tavors, out of turn and In, and dlStrl-
lltcd them promiscuouSly among the young
"acs, known vr unknown, who happened to
a'irae' his hcyship admiration. One young
ATTY as >ked him, Gould he dance p Eyes, .
AeterIlcd, las we do 10 Turkey" and forth
with asked the damsel to favor him with q
'a'z. Ii is not safe to dwell too much on the
>nt Of the spin when the yonug aforesaid
: within hearing distance Suffice it to say
UNI The freshness aud choicness of toilet which
s>Insnlshcs her entrance into the ball room,
"4I iaAcu unto itself wings at the terutnatlon
:. ID tearing race, and one was reminded OF
'e ap'rarance of the po-parrot i'll the ancc-
'0'" robbed OF its gay plumage By the mis-
"s'ou, monkey. But then she had danced
'a"a Turkish Minister Was that >utli-
.1 coutrn.ation Tor torn aud bedragglcd d
''an aud hair needing Pcasuntridrrh"od' :
gets to rut ,tup ? Cor. Cincinnati Gns'nc.