THE OTHER POINT OF VIEW
To bo a little girl of ..ten J Seems nice enough —to boys and men. I wonder if they've ever tried To argue from the other side ? I don't suppose they'd ever guess The stiffness of a starched white dress. I wonder how they'd like the hooks, Let alone the way it looks- ' « They'd never sit at home and sew, And watch their brothers come and go. I should not even like to say That they would bear it for a day. They do not know how hard it seems To be a girl still in one's dreams. To feel that one can never be A drummer boy or go to sea. Our brothers say we're hard to please Because we long for ..things like these. They think it is a pleasant life To wait until you're some one's wife. When I'm a wife I'll gladly sit At home and cook and sew and knit, But there's a lot of waiting when You're but a little girl of ten. Our brothers do not seem to know That waiting can be very slow. You see, they've never really tried To argue from the other side. —' Westminster Gazette.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 4 June 1908, Page 37
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201THE OTHER POINT OF VIEW New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 4 June 1908, Page 37
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