POETRY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1985, 5 July 1880, Page 3

POETRY.

WANTED. Wanted, a perfect lady, Delicate, gentle, refined, ■ With every beauty of person, And every endowment of mind j Fitted by early culture To move in fashionable life— Please notice our advertisement: " Wanted, a minister's wife." Wanted, a thoroughbred worker, Who well to her household looks j (Shall we see our money wasted By extravagant Irish cookß ?) Who cuts the daily expenses With eoonomy sharp as a knife, And washes and sorubs in the kitchen ; " Wanted, a minister's wife." "A very domestic person/ To "callers " she must not he " out." It has such a bad appearance For her to be gadding about; Only to visit the parish Every year of her life. And attend the funerals and weddings : " Wanted, a minister's wife." To conduct the "ladies' meeting," The " sewing oircle " attend ; And when we " work for the soldiers," Her ready assistance to lend. To clothe the destitute children Where sorrow and want are rife, And look up Sunday- sohool soholars ; " Wanted, a minister's wife !" Careful to entertain strangers, Travelling agents and " such ;" Of this kind of "angel visits," The deacons have had so much As to prove a perfect nuisance, And hope these plagues of their life Can soon be sent to the parson's ; "Wanted, a minister's wife !" A perfect pattern of prudence, That all others spending less, But never disgracing the parish By looking shabby in dress j, Playing the organ on Sunday Would aid our laudable strife To save the society money ; " Wanted, a minister's wife!" I Bnfc when we have found the person We hope, by working the two, To lift our debt and build a new ohuroh, Then we shall know what to do; For they will be worn and weary, Needing a change of life. And then we'll advertise —" Wanted, A minister and his wife !"