REQUIREMENTS IN A WIFE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 54, 28 October 1912, Page 2

REQUIREMENTS IN A WIFE.

If I must wed—and everyone Declares it is my duty— The girl my choice shall light upon Will have to he a beauty. " ,u '' No stubby nose or eyes ill-set' 1 O Will catch my fancy, you can bet! I love the tall and stately kind, With melting glance yet glowing; A cheek so perfectly outlined It seems a rosebud blowing. A red and softly pouting lip, Where only I and Cupid sip. But that’s not all, nor even most; She must be truly brainy; I want my wife to be the toast— No fair, insipid zany. To cheer my mood, she’s got to be Right on the spot with wit, you see. She must be young—l could not stand A woman nearly forty— And full of fire as well as sand, Yet not the least bit sporty; While as for wealth, of course I’m not Averse to that; I’d like a lot! She must—what’s that? You bid me say What I to give am able As fair exchange? I vote to lay Your question on the table. I’m fat and fifty, rather small; Perhaps I shall not wed at all! —William Wallace Whitelock, in Munsey’s Magazine.