MY MOTOR CAP.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 39, 15 February 1905, Page 9

MY MOTOR CAP.

[Motor i-aps have created snrh a vojrue in the English Provinces, that ladies. womra aiui factory girls may be se*m wearin? Thorn on every occasion, thongh unronnefrei]. in othpr respects, with modem methods of locomotion.] A motor ear I shall never allt ill With a say vemiilion bonnet, Of course I might happen to marry a lord, Bat it's no good counting on it. I kari- never roelined -on tho seat behind, And liurtied across tL c map, Bur my days are blert with a mind at rest, For X wear a motor cap. I"Te done with Gainsborough, straw and toque. My dresses are bound with leather, I i urn np my collar like auto-folk, And stride through the pitiless weather With a pound of scras in an old siring bag. In a Iram with a emld on my lap. Wherever I- s°- to a shop or a show, I wear a motor cap. I don't kiiov.- a silencer from a clutch. A sparkling-plug from a bearing, But no one, l think, is in closer touci With the caps the women are ■wearing: I'm a a faic with tie trim of The tailarmadi; brim. The crown and inaeimie-stitched strap; Tbotish I've neither the motor, the sable- { lined co»t, or Tie sossles*—^ l wwr ike cag.