HOW SHE VOTED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 263, 10 December 1914, Page 4

HOW SHE VOTED.

She dazzled ev 'ry officer Within the voting place, So wondrous was the style of lior, So beautiful her .face. The clerks and others gazed at her In rapture, one inightisay; But all were quite amazed at her Before she went away. Her name she didn't care to tell To men she'd never met; They might be nice enough, but—well, Not her exclusive set! And when at last the name they got, She wouldn't write it down. T~.ie horrid pen, she'd touch it not! Th 6 ink might soil her gown. i The law's a thing that now and then Will no evasion stand; Our votress used the profffered pen . With gloved and dainty hand. The clerks and others gazed at her In rapture, one might say; But all.were quite amazed at her Before she went away. The ballot-blank in mild disdain She took, but still with grace— Her scorn of voting rules made plain, She sought the curtained space. Long loit 'ring there, the names she read; J She read them o'er and o'er. j They much perplexed that lovely head; j The amendment list still more! j At length, emerging from the stall, Her ballot left behind, She said she wouldn't vote at all— She'd simply changed her mind. j The clerks and others gazed at her In rapture, one might say; And all were quite amazed at her As thus she tripped away. -—Thomas Nunan, jn the San Francisco ' 'Examiner."