The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1867-12-19
SOMETHING TO WEAR.
BY WIN. HUBBARD, OF THE BucYRus FORUM

! Mrs- Aoraham Lincoln, OF Vanity Fair
! has superabundance Of something to wear !:
! a gorgeous assortment of beautiful things!
/ Camel's hair, and point laces, and diamond
And trinkets. and gauds-tiIl the catalogue
1 Like the fabulous tale Of Arabian dreams.
Did the wife of rail-sylitter e'er before shine
Ia silks irom Tar India aud geE12 from the
mIne
| Did ever fat-boatman's wi5ow possess
In such lavish profusiOn the glories of dress?
More than all, did "rosy queen" ever before
Take off her nice CLOTHES in a pawnbroker's
store 2
! Till the Georgian costume (shirt-collar aud
| spurs),
With but sljght-very slight-variation was
hers
And imagine. while piling the brokers
shelf,
She her friends was exposing much more
than herself;
For Of gimCracks, and gewGaws, and laces
bereft,
What. pray. save her chignon and CATERS,
were left
Did you ever 7'' ooh. rhockiugl" "Such
awful disgrace -
"How immodest !" "How shamelessl ~
How oTazen her lace " -
Were the wild excsmstious Of wonder and
hate
Showered now on woman-ahl how fat
tered of late
Mrs. Shoulderstraps frowned-Mrs. Oilwell
o'erflowed-
! Mrs. Shoddy "sich brsEeie ssness never had
kuowed ~
Mrs. Fyshe, (of Cape Cod)-Mrs. Smythe,
| For ''attsinmeuts in letters"-ths US and
And MIS-. DeShragge. Mrs. Tubbs, Miss Je-
homes,
And the twins, Misses Eppy and Dermis De
Bones.
! CAN Of whom were "stuck up'' in the Lincoln
reginte).
Raised their dainty red hands with a parVe-
nue. scream.
Every preacher found text and pretext for a
lie
Ia his Sunday remarks to his friend-the
Most High
! Mr.. Stormheaven'A sermon made birthstone
! cor "look up" to employ The reporters
| parlanceJ,
Mr.. Marorm ''exhorted the people" seain,
| Till they said The good man has cal',
J
Mr, Poundtezt implorcd the Almighty to
Mrs. I. as disloyal. at least, If not worss.
Republican editors, swift TO defame,
/ VOided venom and spume on the poor wo,
mans name;
By old Weed, my Lord Thurlcw-that cut
purse expert;
/ By Theodore TiEton-that sanctified squirt ;
| BY Sleek. ofthe Tribune AMI (none To forget
! BY the venaI Commercial and villain Gazette,
! Double-eaded, sensational missiles were
| thrown
At the poor widowed woman. dofeneeless
and lone!
! Now. WIZ All this bother2 Sure never before
| DID plain llra Clark. ~ paw nbroksr's store,
| Selling secondhand clothing, such a Tumpu
| create,
As was ssen far md near, 10 some circles Of
late.
We will tell you: these dresser, and lacss,
and Iings,
And gewgaws, and gimcraclis. and trinkefs.
and things,
Were the prices. the bribes, by which Office
was gained,
! When the ssinted martyr, sweet Abraham.
reigned
And twas fsared that while laid on the
|
! Each night give 10 the clerk some account
of itself,
! Aud the clerk to sozle friend indiscrees!T
might blurI
The "Tne Of a Night, gown" or Song Of c
Shirt"
And no secret can safely be kept In New York.
| Where Bennett aud Bonner (busy B's) Are
at work.
So Weed-my Lord ThcrIow-mads haste
to explain
These bad-louking fscts in good Abraham :
4 reign:
'Opcs Washington (sccond) dscl=,cd with
frUwn,
son this licker Of her'n shall bev to ,het
downl'
''Hs was sitting meanwhile with ono hand
al his nose,
employing the other to toy with bis toes
"'Snet down!' said Els spouse will you
shet down ON me-
lyon had better shet up, you old sksssix T.
said she.
$50 the martyr 'shet up and the 'dicksr'
''Aud the gifts that brought ofios now are
ih pawni"
Oh. SnobberyI Jobheryl Robberv-listl
From this tempest of acorn and derision
desist
She's woe-worn and sad--she is desolats now,
| With the apguish Of widowhood stamped on
her brow
A woman-and old-with no arm to defend !
Let this last phase of infamous loyalty end !!
Brides she took but tcAo gaze Me1s S-ths
world ought to know.
| And the sc6undrels outlawed wherever they
go!
Brides she took but P. Ms and small
hunters of place
| Don't havs camePs hair shawls, diamond
rings and point lace
What Cabinet menber (now hide in the dark J
Bought his seat by his gifts to you. fair
Mrs. Clarke2
! What opulent presents were made in advance
) By seekers Of missions to Russia and France 2