GIVE US BACK-.
A play without a bedroom, A jevue without pyjamas, With prune-and-prism girls who led The simple life of farmers. The sweethearts of Victoria’s day, Prim bread-and-butter misses, Who never rode in cabs alone And shrank from thoughts of kisses. Who never plied a lip-stick red Or showed an ell of stocking, Who dressed from chin to toes instead, And looked on “life” as shocking. Give us the plays of good old days, When no girl read divorces Nor mentioned cami-knicks or stays Nor spoke of bets on horses. Come back, ye /plays without a bed, When blusnes were the only red, Save Beauty’s cheek-touched roses, And girls looked down, lash-droope<l upon*. Demure, non-powered noses. C. T. K.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 276, 1 November 1924, Page 10
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120GIVE US BACK-. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 276, 1 November 1924, Page 10
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