The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-04-28
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THRE AIDING THE NEEDLE--MSS' HAIR
RISs SOLILOQUY.

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an, deary me what needles well really
An things are sadly atered-(or the worse too)
since my day
The pins have neither heads nor poiuis-the
needles have no eyes,
Aud there's ne'er a pair Of scissors oil the good
obi fashioned size.
The very bolknls now are made III {iuc new fam
gled ways,
Aad tle good old British thimble-isa dream OF
other days
Now that comes Of machinery lin given to I'M
derSmnd,
Their great folks tur,beir noses up, at all things
'dOne by hand
Ahho' lis easy proving to tile most 'hiek-pa'ed
Ounce.
That things ar'nt done the beticr-l0r all being
done at once.
I'm sure / often ponder, with a Kind OF awful
dread
On tlidse bold spinning jennies,' Tint 60 of, Of
theirowu licadP
Those power-locms aud odd macliiucs-those
whizzmg phings with wheels,
That evernI keep moylngH-besides one re-
ally feels
So superuuuate,l-like and laid upon the Shelf
When one sees a worsted sucking, get up aud
kaI itsey,
"Ah that comes Of Ihose Radicals why Ie's
perfect stnnn-
A Awhirwind oi uyeutiuns with then Progress
and 'Beiorm'
The good old days-tho quiet times, that calmly
used to glide,
Are changed iuao stoeple-chdse--a wlld cross
country ride
loud yiew.holloa in our earS-away! away
we gUi
A,leselIing all disIiuclinus, and a'min5nnS h'eu
aud low;
All spuIring on, with seats So tight, and princi
pies loose.
Whist over this old prejudice !-alap-bnns llro'
thlt abuse
No matter why--nu matter where without a
stop or hitch.
And nobody has time to Lelp his ncighbor i'll the
ditch
Aud then what turns and chInges Good lack
I'd rather be,
A ioint.slool in PIu.omime-thnn som, great
Because in Puutomimes, a stool may tnrn TO any
ding,
You're not surprised, irchairs step QUITO dance
Highland ilins
"a coGeo-pot perhaps because il miirc by-and'
by
Aud everything is something clsc-and nobody
ASKS UHYl
But there's a rage for questioning, and mcddng
uOw.a-daVs;
And what one docs don't matter half so much as
what one says;
And a minister can't change his mind, without
such stir and lus-,
Th4ton wuuld think the public voice. was
some huge Omnibus.
Which takes you 10 certain pomt, Wherca' you
must remain,
Until the ssino old Russ may chooso--to takcyo'
back again
For, (odd cnoiqh) in oil This chnmsc they keel
some order slll
Aud When they turu--uriI all at Oncc--iihe sol
diers at dill
But won't allow public mar, private piro
uelte.
When once his part OF Harlequin, or Pantaoon
is set,
Ane that's what makes lhcr panomime so dull
aud such bore,
That heir ioin'-atool must still remain-a join
stool ever more.
"How that comes of Newspapers know il
my young days
Least said, and soonesi mcndcd,' was max
ilu worthy prhlsc.
But wore 10 give counsel to the Public-as
freud.
Little sid-aud nothing written" is tho rule Il
recommend;
Such swapping up--md setting down RepOrte,
left aud right
All benton putting down nun 10 lie, IN blac
and white!
Such mkug up Of IIansard such iiingins il
ones face,
Any lutte 'lapsus lingun that may once hav
taken place
Such Ieuding and aproying-nnda-mlling Owe
coals.
As If it really mattered to our poor immort
souls
That Thingumboh should tns or say, ON que
lion 50 aud 50,
1hnt foolish things he thought AID Sid-sonl
t1rty years ago!
There's que thing in those papers, tho l'm yer
glad tO see,
That many more cid pOmea thnilS very much Ills
me:
I'm even told that certain Dukes, will echo bac
my grOnn,
Aud sigh for those dcnr golden davs, when W
'leil--weR. alone !'-Ladg DgBeria.