Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-01-31
Old Maids.

| have been requested by one
OF the spinster-hood to write
q chapter on old maids. AS q
preliminary / will state that /
take off my shoes, aware of the
''holy ground,n and if my tread is
not so soft as the fall Of snow
flakes it will be due to the size
and weight of my feet and not to
a desire to crush tender sensibili-
ties, Then, too, Ito slightly mis-
quote q familiar couplot.)
"Some feelings are TO mortals giy'n
With more Of earth in them than heav'n,"
and, to such, even the touch of an
angels wing would make the
sensitive chords Of their natures
vibrate discordantly. But to the
subject. There is the old maid
who is not so from choice but
from the fact that she is not a
good "fisher of mem. Poor thing
She is not at all to blame, for
from the time that she was able
to "do up her back hair" and
lengthen her dresses to the curve
of her instep, she has assiduously
kept her hook baited. She has
resorted to all kinds of strategies
single. handed, these failing, she
has availed herself of the maneu.
vres of friends, which alas! have
also been failures. Acknowledge
the facts All No! not she. She
will tell you of numbers of ardent
admirers who have fairly perse'
cuted her with attentions and
who are on the verge of distract.
| ion because they have been una.
BILE to win her. As she tells you
of some paragon of masculine
perfection, intelligent, wealthy,
handsome, aristocratic family etc
etc., who vows he will never mar
ry another, and whom she would
like to marry only she "just CAM
love him., and your memory
chances to run over some little
episodes in her life when she hal
had an affair of the heart with
others, who could boast neither
wealth, "blue.blood" nor kinshil
with Solomon, and yet she hal
evidently, like "Barkis", beer
willin", you feel that you are con
fronted with a knotty problem
whose only solution 10, that, Glow
lis blind and lovers cannot see thu
petty follies that Themselves com
nit" She goes her way adowl
tho shady slope of life's hill
Sinking and smiling promiscu
ously upon the sterner sex, apply
ing the arts of the toilet, and who'll,
undaunted by her failures. Sh'
sees in every man a prosperity
husband, and in her "mind's ey
sees herself decked in white rob
orange blossoms, and flowing vel
Life has not lost its charm TO
her. Then, there is the old mai
who has her ideal of manhood g
high that she has never been abb
to find one of the "genus homo
who could reach the altitude
Consequently she stigmatizes tn
sex as wholly undesirable, an
resolves that she will not "cast he
i. pearls before swine" Her nj
!, ture becomes embittered an
sour. Her neck gets stringy an
. the corners of her mouth have
pathetic droop, ill.mannere
4: crows boldly press their fe'
Through paint and powder an
-, leave their tracks, upon the ono
Ironnded cheek, all too plainl
If inanimate things could spea
doubtless the hair restorer % BIO
e tie woald say "the dye is cast
n and the "bought teeth" would r
clspond, mature abhors a vacuum
"nor thing! Like the wife
roc. less Tam o. Shanter, wi
nursoo her wrath to keep it war;
.ha nn,o "a resentment and b
tnv eu,I sor 'ife's disappointment
md 49, ,hom no chance to co..
4, She cast casts the the b. 'sme upon !
poor, innocent men, h.' %,
, should TO quote Robert j.
dette) Ego to her mirror and mai
faces at the responsible party
Another species, is, the genis
sweet-tempered maiden lady, VII
we know hos had many offers
t marriage, good bad and indiffe
emit" who smiles in y sweet, sain
ly way at the little love-god Will
her heart remains proofagainst hi
shsrpest arrows. She has a big
appreciation of all worthy mel
I, comedies the beauty and sanctit
of the marriage state, but bt
cause her heart has never bee
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