SHIRT WAIST OF LAUGHING WATER.

SHIRT WAIST OF LAUGHING WATER.
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The newspapers assert that a cru-
sade far from puritanleal is being
waged in America against the peek-
a-boo shirtwalst-World cable from London.
Then appeared fair Minnehaha,
Minnehaha, Laughing Water-
Spoke she thus to Hiawatha,
Thus she spoke and made him listen:
“Can’t you take a l a little notice?
Can’t you see I need some clothing?
Must you always spend your wampum
All on bows and feathered arrows?
Win you see your little wifey
Going to a luncheon party
Looking like a last year’s bird’s nost?
Can you never, never, never,
Get a move at least approaching
Something like a gentle hustle?”

Up spoke then the Hiawatha:
“What wouldst have, O Minnehaha?”
Then her heart was filled with glad- ness
“Ha!” she cried, “I’d have a shirt waist
Of the brand called peekaboowis,”

Thereupon did Hiawatha
Hie him to the nearest knot-hole;
Cut a plece from out the knot-hole;
Then he found a darning-needle
And constructed such a shirt walst
As would make the heart of maiden
Sing for joy to see such beauty.

Thus we see, in the beginning,
Minnehaha, Laughing Water,
Falrest mald of the Dakotas,
Made her husband. Hiawatha,
Get a move akin to hustle,
And construct a lovely shirt walst
With a needle and a knot-hole
Of the kind called peekaboowis.
-New York World.