St. Landry democrat., 1881-09-17
T-4BITHA TOPP.


Possessed n great passion
To lead in the fashion:
Hhe put on the airs TO take everything doWn,
And patrnnlzcd art, in order to gain
Perfection and grace
In figure and face,
IN a way that VIII not attempt to explain
But viii only say,
Ia a shorter way,
She made up her beauty by handsomely dress
ing,
AS nature had been rather spare of that bless
Of maids and dressmakers she had full
And a carriage with monograms painted DER,
With foOrlnan behind and with coachInan be-
Was it wonderful, then.
i hat he 'callow' young men
should think her an angel, Il "charmlng
creature.
Exquisite in figure AMI stunning" in feat
She had crushed the hearts of dozen or
more.
Her paw he was wealthy, her "beauA they
As foppish and foolish as she could desire,
They swallowed her '.maw's' murdered gram
and wine
And laughed at the wit and stale jokes OF
her sire.
There rIs q blank time in an earlier year,
When ropp was an humble retailer of beer;
by close calculation, by constantly saw z.
BY wild speculation, by pinching and shay
He prospeved at last in his worldly Affairs,
And rose from the foot to the top OF the
stairs.
OF all OF the beaux with which Table was
blest
One sui1or was sweeter than all of the rest;
His pink and white features, his exquisite
His mustache Of semi-invisibe hairs,
His diamonds. his rings and his snowy attire,
Were all that her frivolous heart could desire.
lie talked OF fast horses, OF betting anu
drinking"
He laughed at the notion of working or
thinking.
While Mrs 1opp gave him the best of her
And talked great deal so that dawtah o
mine.
Q woman fair siren, men can not wi hstand
The cup OF destruction that turks il your
How oft have the noblest been led and be-
Guitei
TO taste the bright poison because you have
smiled,
Men yield to your beauty and subtle control.
They drink and they die wrecked in body and
soul!
So Tabitha marie Augustus Fitz Noodle.
And started away with her husband and poo
die;
10 "ierrup" her "lawd' condcscended to
SO she was as happy as money could make
her.
They crossed the Atlantic, they landed in
They tarried at dissolute Paris awhile,
They saw the whole CITY, You know, at
glance.
Aud greatly enjoyed all its "splenaah an
style
They visited Sicily, Naples and Rome,
They gazed at San Petals" magnificent
dome:
They went to the Vatican, saw Plus TX.
An lots o old martyrs an saints, We tine;
They crossed the tall Alps they descend ID
the Rhine,
Viewed all the old castles AMI notable
places.
They thought the Old ruins, tho striking and
bold.
Would have looked very well IF they WASH t
Went over to England, attended the races.
Then greatly dssusted with foreign af-
They crossed the wild waves and came home
Tor repairs.
Time gl:ded away. with great deal Of chang.
How many fond lovers a few years estrange;
Poor Liable grew older and thinner and
Forgot how to smile and soon learned how to
sputter,
Because ner Augustus ''woull lie in the gut
In short, his attentions had ceased to de-
He drank and he gambled, he lived very fast
He ded, one dark night with the "tremens,
at last
"ALsfortune,'' It's said, "never travels
aiOne.'
And riches have Wings for they often have
flown.
The wealth, # the Tops, being deeply in
vnved
In wild speculations. one dark day dissolved.
The Sheriff came down like the wolf on the
fold,
Their house and rich furniture had to be sold
Now those who had loudly professed to adj
nire
The Tops when they dressed in their snowy
attire.
Pronounced them exceedingly vulgar and
vain.
The fashionable brethren all frowned with dis
dain:
They heard of the change in their worldly af-
And ceased to remember the Tops in their
prayers
Forsaken by rends and avoided by all,
Even those they desplsed now rejoiced il
their fall.
There is sorrow and shame there is want and
stress.
There is grief that no language can speak or
express,
That will come to man with no will to alb
stain
From tri;ling thing as a glass of cham.
payne,
And the ones on whom Nature has degned to
bestow
An abundance OF all the good things here be-
low.
Should not walk thro the world too conceited
and vain,
or regard all the lowly with naughty disdain
They may fall from the top to the foot of the
stairs.
And crush all Their proud. supercilious airs
Eugene j. Haii an ChicuJO Inter Ocean.
THE ENGLISH LADY:S STORY.
Come, the blackberries are ripe