THE RULING PASSION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 92, 18 April 1908, Page 6

THE RULING PASSION.

Two women leaned over the backyard fence (The same old fence) . as the sun went down, While each told the other, in confidence, The scandals she'd gathered about , the town. For women must gossip, or they can't sleep; They think'that secrets weren't made to keep; So they lean on the fence in the gloaming. Two women leaned oveV the garden. gate, ■.■;. -~■.■-■ ■■ ./. i. , : In the evening glow as the sun went down; ' They'wondered what made their Husbands so late, And they sneered at the minister's wife's new gown. For women delight in a friendly chat, Without it their lives would be stale and flat; So they lean on the gate in the , gloaming. Two husbands ca,me home from their golfing game , (From the office, they said) as the sun-went down, Both ready and eager to hear the same Sweet scandals their wives had hunted down. For men, though they, work, love gossip too— And that's why their wives seek something new As they meet and talk in the gloam-