A Century of Parody and Imitation

by Unknown

A maiden's heart is as champagne, ever aspiring and struggling upwards,

And it needed that its motions be checked by the silvered cork of Propriety:

He that can afford the price, his be the precious treasure,

Let him drink deeply of its sweetness, nor grumble if it tasteth of the cork.

Of Friendship.

Choose judiciously thy friends; for to discard them is undesirable,

Yet it is better to drop thy friends, O my daughter, than to drop thy 'H's.'

Dost thou know a wise woman? yea, wiser than the children of light?

Hath she a position? and a title? and are her parties in the Morning Post?

If thou dost, cleave unto her, and give up unto her thy body and mind;