Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-09-09
TABITHA TOPP.

TABITHA T0PP
Miss Tabitha Topp, n young lady In town,
Possessed great passion
To lead In tho fashion;
She put ON the airs to take everything down,
And patronized art, in order to gain
Perfection and grace
In figure and face,
In q way that will not attempt TO explain
But will only say,
In shorter way,
She made up her beauty by handsomely dress
As nature had been rather spare OF that bless
ing.
OF maids and drcssmakers she had full
And carriage with monograms painted DER,
With footnan behind aud with coaohman be
Was it wonderful, then,
That the "callow' young men
Should think her an "ange,' charming
Exquisite" in figure and "stunning" in feat
uroy
She had crushed the hearts of dozen or
more.
Her paw he was wealthy, her "bcaux' they
AS foppish and foolish MS she could desire,
They swallowed her 'maw's" murdered gram
And laughed at the wit and stale jokes OF
her sire.
There ,riS blank time in an earlier year,
BY close calculation, by constantly saviog
BY wild speculation, by pinohng and shay
He prospered at last in his worldly affairs,
And rose from the foot TO the top of the
stairs.
Z OF all of tho beaux with which Tabbie was
blest,
One suitor was sweeter than all of the rest;
His pink and waite features, his exquisite
airs,
His lnustachc of semi-invisible hairs,
ie
We're all that her frivolous heart could desire.
He TAXED OF fast horses, of "betting' and
drinking,
He laughed NJ the motion" of working or
thinking,
While Mrs Topp gave him the best of her
wine,
And talked a great deal 40 that dawtah o
mine"
o womanl fair siren, men can not withstand
The cup of destruction that turks in your
hand,
How oft have the noblest been led and be-
pliel
To taste the bright poison because you have
smledl
Men cid to your beauty and subtle control.
They drink aud they die, wrecked in body aud
soull
So Tabitha married Augustus Fitz Noodle,
And started away with her husband aud poo
To "Yerrup" her "lawd" condescended to
So she was as happy as money could make
her.
They crossed the Atlantic, they landed in
They tarried at dissolute Paris awhile,
They saw the whole city, you KNOW Mt a
And greatly enjoyed all its "spendah an
style.
They visited Sicily, Naples and Rome,
Ihey gaLed ut "San Petah's' magnificent
dome:
They went to the Vatican, saw Plus TX,
An lots o old martyrs an saints, We flne;"
Viewed ali the old castles and notable
They thought the old ruins, tho striking and
Would have looked very well 'if they wasn't t
Went over to England, attended the races,
Then, greatly dlsgusted with foreign af-
They crossed the wild waves and came home
forrepairs.
Time glided away with great deal of change.
How many fond lovers II few years estrangel
Poor "labbie' grew older and thinner and
Forgot how to smile and soon learned how to
Because her Augustus "woull lie in the gut
Inshort, his attentions had ceased to de-
He drank and he gambled, he lived very fast
He died. one dark night, with the "tremens,
ut last.
misfortune" It's said, ''never travels
alone,'
And riches have WINGS" for they often have
flown.
The wealth, Of the Tops being deeply in-
volved
In wild speculations, one dark day dissolved
The Sheriff "catne down like the wolf on the
foid,"
Their house and rich furniture had to be sold !
Now those who had loudly professed to ad-
The Topps. when they dressed in their snowy
attire.
Pronounced them exceedingly vulgar and
vain.'
The fashionable brethren all frowned with dis
They heard of the change in their worldly af-
fairs,
And ceased to remember the Topps in their
prayers.
Forsaken by friends and avoided by ali,
Even those they desplsed now reJoiced In
their fall.
There is sorrow and shame there is want and
distress.
There is grief that no language can speak or
express
That will come to a man with no Will to Alb
IS stain
From as trhng thing as a glass of cham.
payne,
And the ones on whom Nature has degned to
bestow
Anabundance of all the good things here be-
low,
Should not walk thro' tho world too concete |
and vain,
Or regard all the lowly with naughty disdain
They may fall from the top to the foot of the
stnirs.
And crush all their proud, supercilious airs.
-Eugenc j. Hal, IN Chicago inter Ocean.