Smyrna times., 1883-05-23
LtsAIaa Coke Verses Clara gitspaudh,
BY THE BARD OF TOWER HALL.

NoTE-From the immense patronage bestowed |
upon GARITEE, MASTEN & ALLEN, Tower |
HALL CLoTHERs, the bard of the establishment |
has been led TO believe that his poetic ADVERTISE
ments have met with universal favor and has |
concluded to give his many readers poem more |
worthy Of careful perusal than any of his former
continued monthly until finished, It's effect being
to show up, side by side Clara Fitzpoodle "witR |
nothing to wear and Littleton Coke with moth.
ing to do; and in doing this the author, in the
language of the immortal Shakespeare, would say:
Look upon the picture, then on this"
A poetical lawyer in our good Quaker CITY.
Has given the public poem or ditty
In which, with satirical language refined,
With shrewdness and cunning TO act as abettors
He spreads to his readers a feasL of the mind
By butler prepared in the kitchen of letters
In fact, on Pegasus lance he has tilted
Against fair maiden by whom he was Tilted
Miss cara F1tZpoodle, of RittenhouSe Square,
lady OF fashion who'd nothing to wear.
We know that lawer is famous for tact;
In matters of fancy and matters of fact:
And, therefore, expects that in.making plea,
Where he both the counsel and client, must be
defending himself every word he may utter,
II questioned, would lead to an earnest rebutter
Yes, if the opponent against him arrayed
Unschooled in the law, was matron or maid,
Though clad in an armor of justice and TRUTH
AppaTeled in raiment of merch forsOoth,
He would say to the judge, to the jury declare,
The woman opposing has nothing to wear
Ihe story that's told, in the poem or ditty,
BY the lawyer and poet of our good Quaker City,
shall not pretend in its fullness to tell,
But But give you the gist as nut from the she'll
There lived young lady in Rittenhouse Square,
Miss Clara Fitzpoodle-Miss Clara the fair.
The maiden had pride, and, still better by far,
rich, an indulgent doating papa
man who in youth on fortune was bent
And loned out his cash at a hundred per cent,
Until the financial success in his sharings,
Made the aggregate sum of his earnings and shay
A round half million, and then he retired,
For his wealth and beautiful daughter, admired ;
smiled on by women and hattered by men,
| He headed the list of the proud upper ten"
! Now clara, his daughter, was handsome and gay
And some one had dropped in her hearing one
| day
The simple remark, from unguarded tongue
In the forcible language of " Go it while young
Nov Now Clara was young and her father was old;
| And she also had heard-'twas pity, alack-
That money, got over the Evil Ones back,
| Would go under his--no matter when itwould 60
'Tis prOverb familiar, that all of us know.
So the maiden determined herselfShe would bless
By being the leader of fashion and dress;
And ITO post herself up) with her friend Mrs. Dar
She took sundry trips to the city of Paris
| In her regal regalia, whene'er she was seen.
None took her for less than an empress or queen
Whatever she saw, if twas marked q Ia mode,
Was purchased, no matter what price she bestow
ed;
If dress, or a coat or a bonnet in style
The latest" were words that were sure TO beguile
And gazing she purchased, and buying did gaze
Determined that nothing to please or amaze
Should be left i'll the city of Paris while she
Could draw on the banker. her father, and he
Would honor the drafts of his daughter the fair
Miss Clara Fitzpoodle of Rittenh0use Square
At last with hopes in a state of fruition,
She bade TeU0ir to her friends the ParisianS
And taking Steamer-I think twas the Ohio
Brought home her effects as the bulk of the car
60"
ITO be continued
And the author would respectfully ask hisread
ers to retain the papers containing this poem
and also to bear in mind that
: GARITEE, MASTEN G. ALLEN
cOntinue to keen their usual LARGE siock of mac
: niicent clothing for Mems, Boys and Children
wear at
TOWER HALL, may PAL
t Nos. SIS and 52O Market Street, Philadelphia.