VANKEE-DOODLE-DO.

NZ Truth, Issue 160, 11 July 1908, Page 5

YANKEE-DOODLE-DO.

A Banner Of Tars anil Swipes.

Wimmin. of Sydney, it is said, arc thinking of opening jap a subscription list with a view of presenting the American. Admiral with a silken ensign symbolic of his own country. We have tit late completely overdone the begging business. However, if the .'shemales of Sydney must do this kind of thing, let it be, made a hen convention pure and simple, nhd women only find the 'gilt. In view of the reputation of the 'cussed Yankee sailorman, let the banner 'be emblazoned with tars and swipes:. The idea, il it doss not bear fruit, -will serve to ?ivo a little cheap notoriety to a few alleged swasher sassiety sheraales, who will do little m the wa" of subscribing themselves, satisfied with their own importance, and "win do nothing save from the poor* women of Sydney . portion of the waees earned by the .sweat of the brow of the bard-worked, l underrpaid husbands- the toilers and the moilers. .'of the land.