The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-07-13
For the CITIzEN.
Questions.
TO OUR FEMALE BROTHERS.

Dear ladies, what is the reason why
You gladly love and sadly sighl
Why do you cast that side-long glancei
Why do you marry at first ehancea
ana, II matrimony Is a state of pain,
Why do you want TO marry againl
How do you feel when you catch your first
beaug
Wouldn't you rather say ''yes'' thar Hnoln
What IS your age-has il ever been told.
Do you ever get ugly or grow oldl
" by do you hate to be called an old maid
And by the young fry thrown in the shaded
Why love hattery and soft praisel
Why like the fatterer and his waysl
Why do you whenever You can
Prefer dandy to a man!
Why think yourself charming and SO win
nings
Do } GU ever follow wicked ways but when
SHINING!
Why arc you the only cresture
Preterring the charms Of art to those Of na-
ture.
Why do you so many hours pass
Gazing in your looking glassl
If no one would 70 your charms bow
Would you primp Is you do now2
Why do yOu pads Why do you paint!
Why do you blushl Why do you faint?
Why do you puff! Why do you powderl
Why are you than the pea-fowl prouder9
! Why hutter and perk IN proud array
And think you make d grand display
How much reality in your looks and words.
Do fine feathers make fine birdsl
Have you nothing to do but to dress and look
sweet?
DO you lower your feathers when you look a,
your feet!
Do you dress for comfort or to please.
| When you are dressed are you at easel
| Why lace your waist till it's no wider
Than the waist of a full-gTown spider?
| Why compress your body till it perv erted
/ And your chest Is q cone inverted2
Y Il n " drar 1nrorr IN ha sr#2
| w hen you hirt your fan don't you fan firt
| Why delight in silxen rustlel
/ Why do you wear that ponderous bustleg
| Why go in public to show your dressingl
! Why will YOU kiss without much pressinga
/ Why appear in low -necked dressess
! To show your charms and receive earesses?
! And your dress-why back you pin it.
| Why deck your head and nothing in it?
Why like the turtle do you pack
| All you have upon your back?
| Would j. not be far better instead
| To put something in your head!
| Why do you club your hair up so high
That it knocks hole in the sky?
To part it on tie side why take so much pains
! When it's parted does it unbalance you
! brainss
| Were you made for ornament or for usel
Are your tongues at hoth ends loose!
WHY are you the point of the tale you relate
Why do you walk in that serpentine gaits
Why to your neighbors do you run
10 tell ABOUT things you never mad dOnes
The darts of SANDER why delight to shootl
Why did you eat the forbidden fruitl
Why called l0O-msng Answer as yUu can.
Was it because goa brought aOoe to nlaaF
Have you no soul, as Mohammedans say,
Or more than one to barter away
To offer at the shrine of Fashion
In obedience to a silly passion.
Ever since you first brought man to grief
Have you made 10 improvement but in Eve
fig leaf?
Why in the dance doyou jump up and dowI
And cut the very antics Of q monkey in towr
Sacrificing decency and common sense
: To vain parade and false pretense,
Traipsing the floor to the prompter's rule,
Looking a simpleton, acting foolg
If the vain and the proud shall receive cor
demnation,
For exhibiting their charms to public adm
ration,
Where are gour hopes3 Whence comes go,
salyatiOns
Should you not call a convention, resol,
and agree
, To be less like butterfly and more like
beef NJ. d.