The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-12-24
For the Jeffersonian.
THE FANCY YOUNG MAN."
sKETCHED FROM LIF
BY G. +. p.

BY C. F.P.
AT ten in the morning he leaves his couch,
debauch;
A restaurant then for his morning dram,
Issought very often by the fancy young man.
He drinks in the morning eats breakfast n
| noon,
Is cross as bear, they've called him too soon
He bolts his hot breakfast, and quafis his rich
| wine,
OF cost he's regardless, and don't care dime.
He goes to the barber, who combs his hair,
And studies his toilet with greatest care;
His fancy moustache is trimmed with great
| pains,
Luxuriant hair exhausts his weak brains.
He struts on the pavement, while swinging his
cane,
And smoking and putting with lofty disdain
The choicest Havannas, and cigarettes rare,
Assuming dignified, nonchdlant air.
The rings ON his fingers, and pin in his shirt
Are jewels about him all lying on dirt;
His obdurate heart is hard a stone,
His looks are conceited self-love alone.
He raises his hat to each giggling maid
Tha: his person and dress may be displayed;
He chatters and simpers, and stares and winks,
Those foolish girls fancy me-" so he thinks.
No "lord of creation" can "cut such swell"
As this ''man of fancy" with some heaitless
belle;
Religion, perhaps, his time to beguile,
Or politics. now, he talks for awhile.
Then calls for a courser, and mounting his back
Plies whip till the dust covers over the track
Or, taking carriage, he drives at his ease,
Noone but himselfin the wide world to please.
He stops on the way, with nothing todo
But order drink or hot brandy stew.
Returning to town. he meets in his track
Some friend whom he owes and never pays
back.
His creed Is to borrow from every man,
And never pay back If help II he can;
He'll lie and he'll PROMISE and put on Cheek
Till strangers would think him both honest |
and meek.
His time is consumed in billiards and wine,
And late in the eve he's ready to dine
The cares of the day once ended and gone,
The rounds OF his folly are entered upon.
Ensconsing himself in his midnight den,
He laughs in his sleeve at honest men,
And ganbles and drinks, curses and swears /
Inveigling the innocent with his snares.
Quite late in the night his debauchery ends.
When helped to his home by his profiigate
friends.
Week in and week out, through the night and
the day,
He throws precious time in his folly away;
Vt thirty, the sands of his life nearly run.
lis business neglected, his prospects gone,
10 pleasure. devoted, her sensual slave,
wild dissipation he sinks to the grave
What ,od to the world can the "fancy men"
be:
Sut why they are Jdacied never could see;
heir hearts are decetful above all things,
80 honor or credit their company brings.
-et fancy men" fiatter, and fiatter in vain,
Encourage them not, for their pleasures bring
pain.
letract, then, young. ladies, say while you
can,
'eware of the snares ofthe fancy young man.
he fancy young man" is easily known,
lis breath smells of whiskey, soft is his tone;
lis words are corruption, his heart is too,
lie tells you he worships all girls like you.
away, p,
uch men have no honor, but seek to betray. ,
through all the wide world warn you again,
sook out for such fellows-they're fancy
young men," |