'A Roland For An Oliver,'

Observer, Volume 9, Issue 532, 2 March 1889, Page 13

'A Roland For An Oliver,'

WHAT WOMEN TALK ABOUT. What do women talk about ? Weather first, beyond a doubt ; Then their tongues begin to go On the topics told below. Ministers and church affairs ; Household worries ; children's cares ; Aches and pains, and pains and aches, New receipts for making cakes. Servant girls with horrid ways ; Latest fashions ; temperance craze ; How to save the heathen band ; Jars of fruit for winter canned. Bonnets, dresses, ribbons, gloves : Shopping fun ; young maidens' loves ; Gossip ; scandal quite intense And religious arguments. Babies ; what to eat and wear ; How to hide the silvered hair ; How to keep a youthful face And preserve a form of grace. These and similar things no doubt, Do the wornon talk about : Though the men suppose, ahem, That they only talk of them. — H. C. Dodge. i'OSTCKIPT — WHAT MEN TALK ABOUT. What do men's tongues wag about ? Smoking first, without a doubt ; Then they have their little say On the topics ot.ohe day. Easel iall and the sporting ring, Ballet girls that flirt and cling, Stomachs diving them no ease, What is good for Bright's disease. Mow to dye the gray moustache, riow to «hun the coming crash. How to kiss the nursery maid Without fear of being betrayed. How to iearn the fastest horse On the favourite race-course, How to wager and to win. Be respectable in sin. How to win a lottery prize, How to draw admiring eyes, How to have a quiet lark Quite nub ro.-ut in the ixirk. How to work tho good old dodge Of an evening at the lodge, And instead go on a spree, Wiiere your wife would never be. How to join a club or two, While your wife at home is blue : How to woo and win 3'our wife And in flirting spend your life. These and similar things, .you see, Men will talk about in glee, Though their converse each fair maid Thinks is dignified and staid. Isabel Merrivalr.