Volume 156 — STATE LOTTERIES

The Equality plan we will run if we can So that never a man or a woman need grumble— If theatres, should the idea not include Books, clothing and food for the great and the humble? You will pay a fixed sum and accept what may come, Be it loser or plum; and, to shun all that vexes, We'll even eliminate what modern women hate, And will not discriminate as to the sexes. The question of dress may at first, I confess, Make a sort of a mess of our smart Small-and-Earlies, Where the First Footman John wears the garb of a don, And Lord CURZON comes on from the House in his pearlies; But when our char kneels on the steps and reveals The last word in "Lucilles," will she not put her heart more And more in her duties while great social beauties Slink by in "pampooties" and arrows from Dartmoor? Our tastes and our breeding no more will be leading The paths of our reading; we'll read what we've got to (And it will be a sell for Mamma if her Nell Gets the last ETHEL DELL, when Mamma told her not to); It may be a worry to poor GILBERT MURRAY To read Hints on Curry and Blouses and Batter In Home Chat, it's true; but still more of a stew The Occult Review may appear to his hatter. In the matter of meals, since the rations one feels Hedonistic ideals have so soundly been shaken That even the swankiest Duke might say, "Thankee!" For Hodge's red hanky of bread and cold bacon; But if in the sequel all chances are equal You'll have to see me quell a volume of curses When our "jobs" they allot, and I still have to swot, If I like it or not, writing topical verses.