A FASHIONABLE WOMAN'S PRAYER.
STREXOTFIEN my husband and may his faith and liis money hold out to the last. * Draw the lamb's wool of unsuspicious twilight over his eyes, that my riirtations may look to him like victories, and that my bills may strengthen his pride in me. Moss, () Fortune, my crimps, rats, and frizzles, and let thy glor) shine on my paint and powder. Enable the poor to shift for themselves, and save me from missionary letters: Sheil the light of thy countenance on my camel's hair shawl, and my lavender silk, my point lace, and my neck-lace of diamonds, and keep the moth out of my sable, I beseech thee, O Fortune ! When I walk out before the gaze of vulgar men, regulate my wriggle and give me new grace to my gait. When 1 bow myself to worship, grant that I may do it with ravishing elegance, and preserve unto the last the lily-white of my flesh and the taper of my ringers. Destroy mine enemies with the gall of jealousy, and eat up with the teeth of envy all those who gaze upon my style. Save me from all wrinkles and foster my plumpness. F'ill both mine eyes, 0 Fortune, with the plaintive poison of infatuation, that I may lay out my victims—the men —as numb as images graven. Let the lily and the rose strive together in my cheek, and may my neck swim like a goose on the bosom of crystal water. Enable me, 0 Fortune, to wear shoes a little smaller, and save me from all corns and bunions. Bless Fanny, my lapdog, ami rain hailstones of destruction upon those who shall hurt a hair of Hector, my kitten. Smile, 0 Fortune, most upon Dick, my canary, «nnd watch over with the fondness of a ghost my two lily-white mice with red eyes.
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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 10, 8 December 1877, Page 4
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310A FASHIONABLE WOMAN'S PRAYER. Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 10, 8 December 1877, Page 4
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