POETRY

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 361, 9 April 1903, Page 2

POETRY

THE HIPPY WIFE. You **b ujo why I'm happy when so many wives complain, And say their hatbands only live to give them endless pain. My secret you demand to know, you've seen my happy nook. And you quia me not a little, but—remember i can cook. When other wives are envious, and tell my husband dear My gowns are very out of date, and at my wardrobe sm er, I have no fear, I only smile, I care not how I look! I know I've lut to whisper—' Daar, remember I can cook!' My love has often said to me, ' My dear, I know you're plain, Bat married life with you, my sweet, has brough* me naught but gain.

Let other women sing and dance, cr even write a bock, . Yet you're above them all in charu remember, you can ceok ! And always when I'm begged by girls to tell them by what art I captured su«h a handsome man and won quite all his heart, I merely say, • My dears, I'm sura that all the pains I took, Was asking him to dinner—for remember I can cook 1' And all you modern women who are anxious to be wed, Be wise, throw up your arts and crafts and learn to bake your bread. For ba certain that no husband will forget the vows he tcok, ... If his wife will only please him by remembering how to cook. —SMiBCTED.