FASHIONABLE WOMAN’S PRAYER.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2099, 15 November 1880, Page 2

FASHIONABLE WOMAN’S PRAYER.

Strengthen my husband, and may his faith and money hold out to the last. Draw the lamb’s wool of unsuspicious twilight over his eyes, that flirtation may look to him like victories, and that my bills may strengthen his pride in me. Bless, oh fortune! my crimps, rats and frizzles, and let thy glory shine on my paint and powder. Enable the poor to shift for themselves and save me from all missionary beggars. Shed the light of thy countenance on my camel’s hair shawl, my lavender silk, my point lace, and my necklace of diamonds, and keep the mctha out of my sables, I beseech thee, oh, fortune 1 When I walk out before the gaze of vulgar men, regulate my wiggle and add new grace to my gait. When I bow myself to worship, grant that I may do it with ravishing elegance and preserve until tho last the lily-white of my flesh and the taper of my fingers. Destroy mine enemies with the gall of jealousy, and eat up with the teeth of envy all those who gaze at my style. Save mo from wrinkles, and foster my plumpers. Fill both my eyes, oh fortune! with! the plaintive poison o? infatuation, that I may lay out my victims, tho man, as numb as images graven. Let the lily and the rose strive together on my cheek, and may my neck swim like a goose on the crystal water. Enable me, oh fortune! to wear shoes a little smaller, and save me from corns and bunions. Bless Fanny, my lap dog, and rain down hailstones of destruction on those who shall hurt a hair of Hector, my kitten. Smile, oh fortune ! most sweetly upon Dick, my canary, and watch with the fondness of a spirit over my two lily-white mice with red ejei. —“ Burlington Hawkeyo,"