An Eccentric Young Woman

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1823, 18 December 1875, Page 8 (Supplement)

An Eccentric Young Woman

A London correspondent.. Liverpool Post writes m 4 number of comical stories.''P told just now about the vaga^j very eccentric, very wealtL,J! repoxt be true, very ha^/3 lady, residing ma rural diaS very far from London. AsT imagined/>he has had plenty off .and th, devices shei^ gdPfc rid of them would reaS fairytale. She generally importunate lovers some* absurd impossible thing to do tke being that if they fafl'tW i trouble her no more. It is ' that a certain well-known __ m £ Parliament is not indifferent'm charms or her fortune, and-tint I night, while a great debate-%, progress, the lady dispatched j amorous swain, with a blacken^! and a striped coat, with a big music under each arm to % ? precincts of St. Stephen's. Im approved Christy Minstrel style presented himself before the outJ and indignant janitors. *__$] wildered officials, under thebelffi the honorable gentleman had j, dining too much, lugged him % and in spite of his protests, '% him into a cab and sent him off, tol lodgings. Last Sunday the lady fe self indulged in a prank 'whichi) greatly scandalized the gossips of j neighbourhood. She Weat'toekii iihe morning, and immediately if, her seat, opened a Urge,bti| : coloured parasol^ which shepefiigji holding over her head throughoufct entire service, notwithstaadiog _ entreaties and threats of the >verge and a couple of churchwardens, rl were summoned to ramonsfefcteij her. During the sermon she amu herself by twisting the parasol ro| and round and bobbing itupanddn to the mingled horror and amoste of the beholders. I beheve thatti Vicar has since waited on the hit and that more will be heard of I matter. . DABLING DOSEL. [Dorothea SibyUa, daughter of John! George; I grays and Elector of Brandenburg, mirrttd li Duke of Brieg, ia 1610. She is described si spit of goodnees, common sense, virtue and piefirHi, account of her kind, and genial ways, wunaina .beloved. Children were her especial delight,i whenever she passed through the tuwnof Brietli would walcsme with infinite zest their W benefactress. The following verses show hoi I Duchess of Brieg came to be called the M DoreL] She oame with her innocent beauty and put, An ant;el in heart and an angel in face,. As quaintly the old German chronicles tell Ihe picturesque story of Dirling DoreL v Some faces are bright like the sunbeam ot it., Wherever they shine the clouds vanish mj, ' While sorrow's pala phantom glides baok to Itsti And such was the face of the Dirling DoreL ' Some hearts are so full of the treasures ot lor*, The beausiful gifts of the Giver above, Their riches o'erflow into others as well;'.■■ And such was the heart of the Darling Dotal r Some lives are like chords uidsr music's contra^ ■ ISach incident harmony blends with the whole, i Until on the ear in fall concord they swell; And such was the life of the Darling DoreL. Whomever she passed through the streets of thetm ■ No story-book quean with a sceptre and (ton, Bat girted with graces that none could excel, The natural guards of the Darling Djml, Her ladies would bring with them comfits iaiftfl For the bright Utile maidens and brave little bM Wnile the children would follow love's magiultf And hasten to welcome their Darling DoreL The Duchess knew not of her pretty.new nam, Though far it was spread by the heralds of tamn Till at length, as it happened, one day it betel That she learned they called her the Darling Ds» It was breathed by a child's yet impolitic lips, Which often the wisdom of Sages eclipse; •.: The Princess had asked if her name sheaonlW • Your name,' said..she cuild, *i 3 the Darling Do» The conrti^rs all stared, half in wbnte bilfapjjjj. Such a name savoured msre of the cot thantheco^ , Bat their mistress said, smiling through tens, »> well; Henceforth let them call ma the Darling Dowl, The proudest of titles that monarch* ekisty* . Are those which the love of their people to*** ' And net for an Emperor's crown would I*l The title mine give me of Darling DoreL ■