AM UNDESIRABLE BELLE.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 78, 29 November 1884, Page 7

AM UNDESIRABLE BELLE.

She bits in a fashionable parlour, And rocks in her e-isy chair ; She is cl.id in silks and satin--, And jewels are in h-r hair ; She wmksa'id giggles and sitnpeis, And simpeiK and giggles and winks ; And though she says but httle, Tis a. good deal more than she thinks. She lies ahed in the morning Till nearly the hour of noon, Then conies down propping and snarl - Hng, Bei-.iuMs she was caliec too soon. Her hair i^ sti'l in papery H«i chpelcs still fresh with paint— iteir.ains of her last niuhtV blushes Bvioie she intended to faint. She rlotis upon m>>n unshaven. Ami men with "flowing I) iir ;' Shs's eloquent ovei nioiKsUiches — They give such a ioiei^nair. Slie'tiilk^ oi Italian niiisie, And Jails in lovu with the moon ; And if ;i incite weie to meet her She would sink away in a swoon. Her feet are no very little, Her hands aie :•<> veiy white ; I! ei j.-wels bo very heavy, And her head s.) very light ; And her colour ib made of cosmetics (Thoiiiih this she will nevei own); Her body is i <^tly fotton, Her heart i.s ma<ie wholly of stone. She fall* in lo\e with a fellow Wlio swells with a foreign air ; He marries her ior her money, 4 She uiamevS him i'ur his hair ! One of the very bent niaHies— Both are well-mated in life ; She's (jot a fool for her husband, He's got a fool for his wife !