A PRACTICAL GIRL.
s — : •• She can peel and boil potatoes, .make a salad of tomatoes, But she doesn't know a Latin noun from Greek. And go well she c<<ol?s <i chicken ihat r your appetite would quicken, .!' Bat she 'cannot tell what's modern from antique. She knows how to set a table and make order but, df babel, But she doesn't 4 , know Euripides from Kant. . Once at. making pie I caught her— Jove, an expert must have taught her — T3ofc a\\e doesn't know true eloquence from rant. She lias a linn conviction o"e ought only to read fiction, She doesn't care fnr science, not a bit. And the way she makes her bonnets, sura is worth a thousand sonnets, : < But she doesn't yearn for culture not a whit. She can make her wraps and dresses till a fellow fast confesses That there's not another maiden half so sweet. ._, -t \ - She's immersed in home completely, "where she" keeps things very 7ieat, But from Browning not a line can she repeat. • > Well, in fact, she's just a woman, gentle, loTable, and human, Aud her faults she is willing to admit. 'Twere foolish to have tarried, so we went off and got married, , A.nd I tell you Inm mighty glad of it.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XXI, Issue 1063, 21 December 1894, Page 3
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210A PRACTICAL GIRL. Clutha Leader, Volume XXI, Issue 1063, 21 December 1894, Page 3
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