A FAD AND A CONSEQUENCE.

NZ Truth, Issue 274, 1 October 1910, Page 1

A FAD AND A CONSEQUENCE.

Rubbing versus tubbing,Towels versus soap, Massage versus water — Let us live m hope. Soon the modern methods Bath-tubs will depose, And mankind's life is spent Holding mankind's nose. • • • EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES. O, blame not the man who drinks 'beer m the summer, Deep draughts of iced beer served by bright-eyed Hebe ; The dude and the clerk, the merchant and mummer, They have some excuse when to iced beer they flee. For the months of fierce summer so slowly they roll, That a man of his thirst cannot keep full control. j_■ « * n PUBLIC NUISANCES. There 1 are many public instances Upon this patch of mud, But none are greater nuisances Than some of flesh and blood, Who smite their breasts like Pharisees, And croak the whole day long, And see no good m anything, But always see the wrong. The public parks are hells on eartfo (Their very latest wheeze), So we must shun them just to please Such wowser cranks as these ; The youth who courts his sweetheart there, What odds how pure she be ? Is reckoned up as one whose aim Is vile debauchery. The same pair on the sea-beach fIH The wowser with disgust, And Sunday trains ! they're worse and worse,They but encourage lust ! Lord save us from the ghoulish breed, Who shock and scandalise, And always talk about the mote In other people's eyes. Remove the mote, oh Lord, we pray, From sore eyes such as theirs, And cleanse their minds until they're fit To climb the golden stairs ; E'en then we'll wonder how they'll rest, Or what new lurk they'll try,. Or whose poor soul shall be the one They'll seek to vilify. • • ■