Show COMPARATIVE MODESTY Why should we criti cise belles of society so-ciety S If they in fashion p their I shoulders expose ft Shoulders of every style and variety Swell aggregations are sure to disclose dis-close Een if a maid be as fair as Hyperion r She may be modest and shy as a fawn And evry land has a different criterion crite-rion Fixing the place where the line should be drawn Constantinople girls think themselves sensible If they conceal all their outlines of grace And they consider it most reprehensible reprehensi-ble If they disclose just the least bit of fuce 4 V Just as a maid in this laud puritanical Thinks oftentimes a whit neck is a If7 bin 1 Any fair girl in farT fl far-T u r k ey tyrannical I tyran-nical I Faints when a man sees her nose or her chin In heathen India far oer the billowy Notice a strange variation of 0 tastes Bayaderes ever arc modest as willowy will-owy Yet they delight inC in-C osing their waists Thus they disport them in maze f I psichorean t I With their lithe 1 figures quite supple sup-ple and free S K s q H imanx belles 0 01 b m v big blasts frd hyjtrborean Wrapped all In fur can no more = modest be Maids of old Athens i v Kiibliine and sa lubi ous Ii Often w ere f iee in PMailing their lr t charms 1JJ UouLlls I they would l hare been very lugubrious f If 1 was ordained they should cover their arms Yet we aNI certain j Praxitelas Phid TI r ias Or any sculptors who criticised i them J 1 Made no unkind criticisms invidious 9 i invid-ious AB to the dress of the daughters of tnuj I men Leaving UK is of p i the time < jf old i f Hannibal 1 Who aped the fashions i fash-ions of Greece I i with such joy Contemplate kindly f the prudish girl cannibal Who wears so little and j tt is MJ coy Showing her to you I in outlines pictorial pict-orial Gaze on her raiment t rai-ment we dont draw her form Yet we doubt not that from time immemorial Etl EI morial She has esteemed d herself modest esJ4 and warm S LEXVOI Judge not ye maidens maid-ens what toggery modest is Modesty lies not in garb great or slight And though the fashions of some girls the oddest od-dest is None can be found wholl not think herself right Chicago Herald |