Her Weakest Points

My girl will eat but one ice cream,

     And little sweetened stuff;

Her language is a prattling dream,

     But she will say “bluff”.

She never goes to theatres,

     From dancing she abstains;

Her gowns are poems in themselves,

     But she will wear trains.

Selects the choicest authors she,

     In gossip she is mum;

She chooses good society,

     But she will choo gum.

She doesn’t care for politics,

     In ball she will not dwell;

She shuns the fancy sporting cliques,

     But she backs John L.

Sept. 20, ‘92

Pub. in “Penny

Press”, Midd. Ct

John L. Sullivan for ‘Gentleman Jim’ Corbett for the Heavyweight Championship on September 7, 1892

                                                                See : http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/corbett.htm