The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-02-24
Ghe Urihunf.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
en Editorial and Local on Second and Third Pages.
MODERN INVENTION.
A POEM.

As along the street blundered,
Much l Travelled, much L wondered,
Seeing sights and things that moral
Never saw or dreamed before;
On the pavement came rappinS
As of footballs gently tapping,
And heard a muslin Tapping,
Which my eye would fain explore.
's"Tis female" then I muttered-
have seen the things before
Only this and nothil- g more.
Came this female sweeping by me;
Fearing she should chance to spy me,
Suddenly dropped into a
Friendly waiting, open door;
Thence / saw the lovely maiden
Being from some distant Alden
All perfumed and dry-goods laden,
Pass ME and go on before.
Noueht had l TO do but follow
And note down the things she wore
Twas a mystery TO explore
And l found by close Inspection
That her naughty upper section.
Something chance had called bonnet,
On its pericranfum Wore;
And her breast was heaving slowly,
Meath garment fashioned totc-ly
And l knew the movement wholly,
had never seen before;
For knew twas patent beavers"
That this radiant maiden wore
Only these and nothing more.
And her cheeks were full and rosy
I could tell you, inter nos, a
Secret that druggist told me,
OF the color that she wore
Yet her cheeks were very pleasing,
But her look at me was freezing,
And she showed a sign of sneezlng,
As she swept along before;
and she sieZed pair OF ''piumpers,
Out at least yard before,
Only this and nothing more.
Then 1 noticed an uncertain
Lifting of the muslin curtain.
That her feet hal deftlv hidden
From my errant eyes botore;
With each lift came desire
That 'twCuld lift little higher,
And at last it did aspire
Higher than I'll seen before;
And l knew il was "tilter
That this sanity maiden wore;
Just .-tilteri-nothing more.
And the tilting and the rocking,
Up AMI down the splendid stocking
Gartered by n hluish ribbon.
That CHANGED to see she wore.
Showed me-'twaS n sirit for weeping
That mar of calves were creeping
Out of place, as she was sweeping
Like a stately queen before;
Calves that she had lately purchased
From a fancy dry-goods store,
Patent calves-and not much more.
And the fnttering and the Tapping
OF the maiden's CANDY trapping
Show ed sights that never mortal
Eye had dared TO see before;
Sights revealed by every lifrIng
OF the folds of muslin drifting
Round her, which the winds were shifting
Skvward highwarl more and more;
Sights that to mortal vision
Ever were revealed before,
Nameless here forever more
And while thus her rigging fiuttered,
Mnch I wondered. and I mIttered;
"Ani Won call this thing n woman
That is trounring on hefore;
She the braZen ,toll of fashion,.
Wrapped IN the tremen' inuS passion;
Sunkan from her noble station,
To the thing that goes before;
Oh that ever mortal vision
Should such mystery explore"
This | muttered-nothing more,
And the thought came DER me gushing,
''where has gone the art of biushing
That we loved. in wife or maiden,
In the sanity days Of wore ?"
Call me. if Won will, uncivil,
While name her 'thing of eyil,'
And I wish the very devi'
Had the forgery she WORE
And again she was arraved in
Dresses like her mother wore
Vanished now forever more.