If we can’t eat with forks
And can’t cut with knives
Then how can we expect
to be good society wives?
We can’t even speak
with a well-modulated voice
neither are we taught
elegance, charm or poise
the etiquette we are taught
is really out of date
we really won’t advance
if we go at this rate
decoration of the home
should be done with grace
much money is spent
for an inviting place
make-up, we think,
is real beauty care
and so we use creams
to make us all fair
at beauty-parlors we then
spend many of the hours
in order to be fresh
and glowing like the flowers
schools do not teach us
to sew or to cut
to break and then
properly eat a nut
we are not taught
all the fine arts
or how to love others
from our very hearts
we are not taught
what we should know
so how can we then
our real culture show?
The subjects which we learn
Can never, never be
Put into practice
By you or by me
Pray tell me then
How to do with flair
Anything at all
Kept in our care
For students never are
Taught all those things
which to, all of them
a sense of goodwill brings
so you see now
what our children should know
in order to be
polished to the core
the schools should start
teaching all they can
to make out of us
a cultured woman or man.