Lancaster Daily Intelligencer

This is the modern style, maid,
Who always good to be arrayed
Her shapely form would too much displayed
By ballroom dress.
But to the seashore she is arrayed,
And in a bathing suit arrayed,
A bold display of ankles universal.
Yet loveliness.
'A dress than doth ne'er collarette,'
This, modest damsel used to say,
'Affords a deal too much display
Of neck and arms;
But that the inconsistency—
She now abandons by the seas,
In dress descending to her knees,
Will not at all.
Though she is of such modest mien
That ever would she blush, I ween,
Were but an inch of ankle seen
By boorish churls:
Yet admiration doth she court
As on the beach she doth disport,
Attired in skirts, I vow, as short
As ballet girls'.
And, what is more, 'tis her delight
To keep exhibited in sight
Her neck and arms supremely white
To win a smile.
Yet this is she who none could press
To don a low-necked ballroom dress.
Ah, well, the reason you can guess—
It is the style.
From the Hartford Daily Times.