What Everybody Says.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2587, 23 April 1877, Page 2

What Everybody Says.

" In multitude of counsellors there is safety." - —Old Protbrb Everybody had so much to say on Saturday that somebody's little say had to be lelt out. The following relates to a little episode that occurred at. a dance recently held at. the Academy of Music, in which everybody knew that somebody lost a portion of hair (it was picked up), but nobody knew who the owner was. The proper thing to, have done would have been to have handed it over to the police. - These are the lines which somebody wrote:— Into a gas-lit, musical hall; Bedecked with ladies fair and bright. Bent on enjoying the fun of a ball,- ■ "'; Somebody's hair was brought one night. ; Whose it once was, nobody knew; \ : Fastened with hair pins behind and before; Its color hidden from gazer's view, . . ; 'Twas used as a pad to make less look more. ; ■ Somebody danced with might and main, As people do dance who go to balls. | Alas ! for somebody's head of hair, Becoming unfastened, off the pad falls. ■Back went the now unpadded tress, I And. somebody gazing with blank despair; \ ; With hand upraised to the back ef her head, " | Saw somebody pick up somebody's hair. Somebody handed it round the room," And held it up for each fair to see; . ; : But nobody said as she danced alongThat pad of hair belongs to me. Nobody owned the" once used tresa y Nobody pressed it near Ms heart; ■ There it lay on the upraised. chair Far from somebody's head apart. What shall be done with somebody's hair, ' ' Which, unseen, lent fulness to others curls, And helped to make somebody, still more like One of those we hear sung of as '' beautiful girls ?'■ Tenderly take up the disowned tress," Wrap it in paper with •veryl'care,,-. . . To be called for, leaye it at Curtis!! bar, , With only this sehtenqe—" Somebody's "hair."