The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-04-13
POETRY.
" Nothing so Eat Z, Or the Lsdy's

ofa certain fair maid In the matter Of dress;
How, although new bennes she'd daily bsspssl
And buy at the least four new dresses week,
Yet WIENER she want out she was heard to Do
Glare,
That she really and truly had Nothing Il
wear!"
Nov nnothsr sad story fain would reveal
OF the wants which rich people 50 bitterly feel
Not the ladies alone, II Of truth there's locution
But the gentlemen too are in dire destitu,ioni
A piteous complaint in all quarters we meet,
That the lords Of creation have Nothing e
Estl"
us now scarce month since that sorrowfnl day
When Sir Julian Dsintye Of Asteri.k street,
WIS heard by the wife Of his bosom to say,
That, although be had dined, he'd had " Nothin,
to Eat!r
"Nothing to Eat why, there stood just befor,
you,
OF mutton a haunch, in the primest Of cut
Had been hsnging fortningt--it hsd, ] ASSURE
you,
And cook took such paips"--but my mouth her.
was shut;
julian turned up his nose, as much as to say,
7oyers moufoni One can't eat erery day ~
So ventured; " There was boiled fowl by mo-
Boiled fowl ugh" "a shudder affecting to
see:)
Well at least the frat course to your notice had
claims,
That clear soup" Wa. muddy and thick a.
the Thsmesi"
Noble Gods head and shouldsr'--" " Looked
fshy and quesr;"
" And such sms,e 49,. Out Of season At this time
ofysar."
"wsll. the slde-dishss then; the .vset.br.ads"
-" Weren't swsst'
"Oysterpa,s home made" Thai lean never eet'
" Slowed pigson"--"A A libel to call It a stew :"
Calls head" Looked and tasted extremely
like glusl"
On that jusged hars prinos might hav. din.d
declare
"But ones not a chameleon; can't Ire upon
hare ~
1hsn the outlets" Too cold"--" And the
curry" Too hot -
4" And the dsintss which followed. the soshs'--
"Ths vAatr'
Call that mess a so.t7s ~" Wen. the .w.sts
we're divine,
Fit for gods ~" But not men, may suIt nectar:
spoil wine,
And as fsllows who'rs mortal can't live without
grub,
And I've had no dinner, i'll-sup at the slub."
Away went my half.starvsd husband With this,
tAnd without going thro' ssn the Jorr. Of kss!).
Left alone, all my ~ifsly attentions rejected
On the Wrongs Of poor Woman Isadly rsAse.sd,
had taken ssch pains to have everything nice,
Had ordered sseh dain.ies, regardless Of price,
Ys our last aus,t has soarosly se. foot In The
street,
When my Julian bunn out" I've bad Eoth.ns
10 Esti"
Pursuing the ,heme Ton the fsndsr..my ,oe.,
And tear trlckllns over the bridge OF my noss,)
thought-Ifs wife In our Upper Ten" sphsr,
Were allowed t,ay) triAins Five Thousand
Year
For housekeeping. and spent every penny upon
H.
And nssr put down ss /" poshry' some dnck"
Of bonnet,
Don't you think she'd bs troubled to max. both
ends meet,
Ifher husband were one who and. Nothing to
Eat7"
Well, since that fatal night. Hnesd scarcely re.
late
When my Julian returned he was in s1eh state
Nor need say here how those vile Clubs hate,
For they smell % Of smoke, and they cit MP %
lateD
Since that fatal night, the mos. saddening sta.
tistics,
have glesnsd Of the Want in the wsll.to-do.dis.
tricts;
And by patient inquire ofthsir wives have found
That alas starving husbandsi IN London abound (:
That our homeless Poor suffer in quite low pitch
Compared to the panss Of our Dinnsrlsss Rioh t,
Those poor creatures who latsly have hlsd the
Tinss' sheet
With their pltiful stories Of Nothing to Eat"
MORAL
Now, Laden Wives! Sister, FOR Vengeance
prsparei
roa woman, We all know, the last word 10
sweet;
When they twit ne for saying we've " N, thing
to Wear"
Wen reply, And poor fellows "soscs Morn
ING TO EATl" -