Caption: Magazine - The Siren (1911 Selections)
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THE SIREN GIRLS WHO HAVE LOVED ME A TRAGEDY Beth was a maid of Features fiero And with a will of steel; She revelled in her chemiftr With-.nt tin- d<.<>r I'd wait. Now happim like that ttl't 1; And this I straightway knew. I'hi Beta Kappa was her goal. Before her foolish college b • < In silent homage kneel. I knelt, but wisely raised my eyes, Thank Jove, the spell was broke 1 1 fled, but in unmanly fear Xo word to her I spoke. Sweet Theodora loved my purse, She thought that I was rich; She flirted violently with me, The little blaek-eyed witch. She danced like a Bacchante wild, Throughout both night and day. Again I 'scaped, but then, alas, I had the deuce to pay. Then Ruth came, like an autumn breeze, With step serene, sedate; I therefore said adieu. Little Charlotte, ah, she had A laugh that gurgled low ; It rippled, dimpled, gently on, Forboding lover's woe. This friendship, too, was soon ripped up, She tried to run a "string". I left because my morals were Too soft for Mich a thing. And now I've turned misogynist. The gentle sex I shun; I'm writing my biography, With maidens I am done. X E of L i f e ' s Keenest Disa p p o i n t m e n t s . — T o spend t w o m o n t h s g r o w i n g a moustache and then t o h a v e nobody discover it. "£) ^ 1 D vo a11 get home sably "OLD CROW" -' ' last e v e n i n ' ? " " N o sah, I w a s delivahd." AS light and shining bar, And one small keg for me; And may there be no cheap tiv«• cent cigar. When I go out for tea. " S I R , are you opposed to votes for women*" "Certainly not, but if women had the ballot then suffragettes would want it too." 18 Apologies to Henderson.
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