TO A FLAPPER.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 195, 28 July 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

TO A FLAPPER.

Despite a certain curious gawkiness Which mars the symmetry of budding youth, , Despite the ways that cause mo sucn distress. Being, to put it plainly, quite uncouth, . 1 see the promise of the coning (lays When you shall queen it queenly maids among , . , t n And £;rave reproots ot wild and laiftiCSo Shall* meet no mora with ft protruded tongue. >o, when 1 see you in your chair asprnwl, ± . . Careless of stockings punctured at the knee. Or hear vour footsteps clatter through tbi ball The while you chant some rng-tune melody, Or when you gaily spurn the priceless •i earls , Of age and wvsdom that should loaic you dumb, H snii'e as one who knows that litt.e ::irk . Ave chrysalids whose wing- are \ct ~ coma. And in those days of pence that yet j.liall bo Kvli I '-hall sop you Willi a swe. u surprise Float. ownard in the dame all ur"auinv, Tli- cynnsur," of half a hundred eyes Y, a in the dav to come yon snail make cond Aud'stricken youths shall worslrp an— adore AVI; :<> I. remembering your f.apperTf shall love you all th« n,,;,V ' TOUCHSTONE