THE PLAINT OF A PRETTY GIRL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1841, 15 May 1888, Page 4

THE PLAINT OF A PRETTY GIRL

V (From London Panoh.) (A writer on fashions says that bridesmaids are to be abolished.) Great Hymen ? The bridesmaid abolished ? Then civilisation's played out ! All is op with pretty and polished 1 Make way for old maids and the gout 1 If Oupids's delectable culttts Is verily thus on the wane, What use for the saps to insult us With talk of the triumphs of brain ? Out on art— though from far Yokohama ; On dress, though from Paris it come 1 If a pretty girl's part m the drama Of life is cut out, theifre all hum 1 T'other day it was weddings were stopping ; At least so the quill-drivers cried. As rare as blue roses were ' popping, 1 As scarce as the dodo a bride. Bat oh ! If a girj did not marry, A bridesmaid perchance she might be, A bridal boquet have to carry, Be armed by some bachelor he. Make one of the beautiful bevy Who flooked round the altar m white ; But this last piece of news is so heavy It darkens our last gleam of light. Adieu to the church and the minister 1 I must make up my mind, I'm afraid, To live a disconsola'e spinster, And finish a dowdy old maid. The bridesmaid abolished ? Then banish Bright eye, ruddy lip, slender waist I Let feminine vanity vanishLove, ten- buttoned gloves, and good taste 1 For what is the use of such matters, If Hymen is out of the bunt ? If men, who are all mad as battara, The altar refuse to confront? If the world, m a mood Buioidal, With honeymoons utterly oloyed, Besolves to abolish the bridal, And loaves pretty girls ' unemployed ?'