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Show A QUERY. Mrs. Cornelius "tfandorbilt is so intensely in-tensely patriotic that she will not permit per-mit imported flowers, orchids or anj other foreign blooms among her decorations; dec-orations; especially does she dislike foreign white flowers. 'News Item. With bated breath I hear thy name, And always reverence the same. For 'mid our glorified elite None is to ime so passing sweet. Yet tell me, really, is it true You say the things they say you do? And, if so, may I ask again, Since puzzled, that you please e plain? Orchids may not attract some hearts, And once they hailed from foreign parts, But surely now full many a year, They have been raised and nurtured here. The small white blossoms, these, I own, Are totally to me unknown, Gardenias or daisies, say Yet both are also ours today. Whence do you &et your fole de gras? Your champagnes, burgundies which are Unto your menus eke annexed? Speak, winsome dame; I am perplexed. per-plexed. The Idiot. |