POLLY PLUM'S LAST;

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3732, 5 July 1869, Page 7

POLLY PLUM'S LAST;

By courtesy of the Editor of the Daily Southern Cross. Dbar Pollt,— I do so like your last, for those " I-always'tofdyou-so" people are perfect bores, and the " I-knew^U-would be-so " people equally so : and you have polished them off well, And there is also another cla*s, perhaps the same wiseacres who, when they bear of any misfortune whioh has happened to any of their friends, invariably bogio, *' Why didu'fc you do so «ud ao V I ehould if I had been you." These are people who are always wiser than their neighbour*, but, unfortunately, their v?i8<lom always comes after the event. These muat be moat egr«giousfy conceited people to think they »hould aofc so differently from other people under similar circumstances ; and without being ungailant, friend Polly, I have kuown ladies (or fem-tlew) who icet any act which they disapprove i of in the actions of man with •* If I were a man." These, I presume, belong to the masculine class of females who are wishing to have a hand in all public affairs, but 1 *hink, Polly, you and I equally condemn these Udiea in stilts. But I thiuk I would admit their pita with this condition : when you have bo well managed your own household that there is no fault to be found in th»t email sphere, then you bhall oa exalted to an extended sphere, shall it be so, Polly ?— Y«ur« truly, Jimmy Jenkins. July 3, 1869.