Poisonous Sentiments.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 21, 20 November 1912, Page 70

Poisonous Sentiments.

It is a curious fact, but poets seem to hare an unusually good time in Australia, says the "San Franciseo Argonaut.” Even the newspapers have adopted the habit of reserving a portion of their space for the amateur verse writer, and people actually read the stuff and prefer it to the real prose. Just now a young bush-dweller named (libson is very much on fire with the muse, and it is as well for him that he lives beyond the pale of civilisation, or a deputation of militants might drop round and break his windows with their little hammers. Ami it would serve him right. A man who would write such poisonous sentiments as these about suffragettes would be capable of procrastination or Sabbath-breaking: — •She’s as wily as a weasel. She’s Us vicious as a stoat. And she’s madder than a monkey ’Cos she hasn’t got to a vote, 'She’s as limber as a leopard, 'She’s as vain as a coquette. Ami she loves a lively shindy. Hoes the saucy suffragetie. Though she isn’t in our sei, We would like one for a pet. But we fear our lawful missus Might say things one would regret. But Air Gibson has a tender side to him. He is not wholly bad- Few men, are. He partially redeems himself by his touching appeal to Hie old country fot girls, more girls, always more girls: Girls to iron, and girls to cook, Who liuvcn’c got lime to cry. Who'll give us a sympathetic look If we can’t digest their pie. •So don't -be sending us useless things. As change for our gold or pearls. But send us a ton of wedding rinya, And a hundred ton ot girts.