THRIFT!
(To "Unsplendid Paupers, in Workhouses and other places where they wish to enjoy themselves" on the cheap.)
If you'd really learn and practice Thrift
(As the frozen poor have needed lately)
Get the great Elizabethan gift
Of (economically) being "stately."
(Mr. Stead that dower will explain.)
You must have a castle to begin with;
Then give a Bal Poudré. You will gain!
(Having nothing else to do your "tin" with.)
The true way to save is—spend your money
On a splendid pageant! Ain't it funny?
Salisbury for Hodge advised a circus,
I a Bal Poudré for every "Vorkuss"!
