JANE ELIZA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10938, 29 November 1913, Page 6

JANE ELIZA.

:: ;; (By AY ALT MAtSO.N.) Jane Eliza, our domestic, is a damsel'tall, majestic, and sue leaves a trail of; wreckage wneresoever she has tracked'; heedless of our prayers and wishes, jane Eliza breaks the dishes, and she says "she didn't mean to," when we read the Riot Act. Jane Eliza sits a-dre,uning while the coffee' pot is steaming, and the beverage resulting is a thing to grey your hau-; when'she cooks a steak she fries it, so . that folks* despise it, and she Says " she'S awful' sorry" when we * "rip around and swear. ~ Jane Eliza has a 6teady who is known to fame as Freddie, and she always wants the parlour when -this youth is due to come; and her loidy. friends in legions oome from all surrounding regions, and they sit on our verandah, in the evening,' chewing gum. Jane Eliza is a daisy, though she is a trifle lazy and inclined to waste the moments . writing yards of dippy verse j from her bonds we don't enlarge herj ;do npt'fire her, don't discharge her, for Sve. know that her successor would be forty times as worse. For an early death she's ltchin' and some day she'll leave our, kitchen midst the fragments of the cookstovo and the stovepipes and their wire; for she's always coal oil pouring in the stove, and that means soaring to a far and famous country where she need not coax 'the fire.