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The American Ideal!

THE AMERICAN IDEAL !

BY W . M . CLEMENS . Ah ! too rare exotic!—SHAKESPEARE OR PINERO .

A COMMON-PLACE young girl ; A decidedly rare young girl ; Stay home at night , Do what is right , -Help-her-old-mother young girl . A hard to-find young girl ;

A reader-of-fact young girl ; An extra-poetical , Anti-aistheical , Care-nothing-for-novels young girl . A minus-her-pnffs young girl ;

A show-all-her-brains young girl ; With an unpowdered face , One that don't lace , A dress-for-her-health young girl . An up-in-the-momzng young girl ;

A help-with-the-wash young girl ; One that can rub , Not afraid of the tub , A roll-up-her-sleeves young girl .

A quiet-and-modest young girl ; A sweet-and pure young girl ; Au upright , ambitious , Lovely , delicious , A pride-of-the-home young girl . A sensible young girl ;

A sometimes-silent young girl ; "Who'll sew on a button , And dine off cold mutton , A love-you-for-yourself young girl . A remarkably-scarce young girl ;

A very-much-wanted young girl ; No longer ideal , But quite utterly real , The kind-that-I-like young girl .

“The Masonic Magazine: 1882-06-01, Page 12” Masonic Periodicals Online, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 25 May 2025, django:8000/periodicals/mmg/issues/mmg_01061882/page/12/.
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DOCUMENTA LATOMICA INEDITA. Article 1
AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF MASONIC LODGES IN 1778. Article 8
THE AMERICAN IDEAL! Article 12
AN OLD MASONIC ADDRESS. Article 13
A CURIOUS CORRESPONDENCE. Article 18
FORTITUDE. Article 20
AFTER ALL; Article 21
THE SONG OF SORROW. Article 25
LITERARY GOSSIP. Article 26
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 28
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Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.

The American Ideal!

THE AMERICAN IDEAL !

BY W . M . CLEMENS . Ah ! too rare exotic!—SHAKESPEARE OR PINERO .

A COMMON-PLACE young girl ; A decidedly rare young girl ; Stay home at night , Do what is right , -Help-her-old-mother young girl . A hard to-find young girl ;

A reader-of-fact young girl ; An extra-poetical , Anti-aistheical , Care-nothing-for-novels young girl . A minus-her-pnffs young girl ;

A show-all-her-brains young girl ; With an unpowdered face , One that don't lace , A dress-for-her-health young girl . An up-in-the-momzng young girl ;

A help-with-the-wash young girl ; One that can rub , Not afraid of the tub , A roll-up-her-sleeves young girl .

A quiet-and-modest young girl ; A sweet-and pure young girl ; Au upright , ambitious , Lovely , delicious , A pride-of-the-home young girl . A sensible young girl ;

A sometimes-silent young girl ; "Who'll sew on a button , And dine off cold mutton , A love-you-for-yourself young girl . A remarkably-scarce young girl ;

A very-much-wanted young girl ; No longer ideal , But quite utterly real , The kind-that-I-like young girl .

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