" POLLY PLUM " AND THE LAST WORD. TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,— lt is very well for " Polly Plum " to close a correspondence with what she considers a hard hit- but I suppose th'S i& part of Woman's nights— and it should thus close, but for one manifest unfairness in trying to make me an advocate, or at a1!a 1 ! events an apologist, for men marrying to eat the bread of idleness earned by a wife's labour, when the writer positively knows that I execrate such men. 1 should not imagine that ' 'Polly Plum's" "good-looking," "elegant," "amiable," " gentle girls" would thank their friend for advertising them as panting af tc«* matrimony. If true, I fear it is the effect detective education. Altogether this is a most unseemly letter, and if I did not know to the contiary I should have taken it for the effusion of a disappointed old maid. It is well that the correspondence should cease, as I am sure the public must have become heartily sick of both "Polly Plum " and " Old Practical ;" but [ was dragged into it. —lam, fee, Old Puvchoal, Mauku.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4223, 25 February 1871, Page 3
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184" POLLY PLUM " AND THE LAST WORD. TO THE EDITOR. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4223, 25 February 1871, Page 3
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