THE OLD PANDEMIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1515, 22 April 1919, Page 6

THE OLD PANDEMIC.

(Svdnov Sun.) , . "This getting married is the bano ot my life," confessed Miss Roberts, Lecturer on Women's Handicrafts at the Sydney technical College. " I am always having to rearrange things because of it. Why, all my students would have captured the dressmaking industry long ago if such numbers didn't get lost to it by marriage.

All the higher education Aims at true emancipation , Of Uio Flapper who incontinently flaps; Yes, the object of tuition is to lift her low ambition From the study of the fellers and the chaps; But as soon as vou have taught hor all tho

handicrafts you can, Boing Mother Eve's own daughter, sho gets married to a man.

Though you promise her high wages, Still tho old pandemic rages: From mouth to mouth tho marriage

microbe goes; All her science ami her learning To tho basest uses turning, Just to keep tho brute in buttons on Ins

clo'es. All the lofty thoughts you gave her to assist the Higher Plan In tho finish cannot save hor from tho clutches of a man.

Though for years you watch her rising With "energy' surprising, _ Tlip.ro comos a Jay of devastating doubt, When a light elusive dancing In her unobservant glancing Shows that Cupid has your doctrines dowi

and out; And tho girl who looked a winnor just becomes an Alsoran As she stands and cooks the dinnor for an ordinary man. •

If you'll study the creation Of tho feminine equation, This precedent historic you will find : Mother Eve, with blushes glowing • Turned her hand to fig-leaf sewing'. But old Adam was tho first thing in her

mind. So has every woman reckoned Unit, in Life's restricted span. Her career must finish second when its matched against a man.