Culture

[For many years it was felt and said]

If we can’t eat with forks

And can’t cut with knives

Then how can we be expected

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is really out of date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 wont advance

if we go at this rate

Decoration of the home

has to be done with grace

much money is therefore spent

to create an inviting place

Make-up, we thought

Was real beauty care

and so we used creams

to make us all fair

at beauty-parlors we then

spent many of the hours

in order to be fresh

and glowing like the flowers

Schools did not teach us

to sew or to cut

to break and then

properly eat a walnut

we were not taught

all the fine arts

or how to love others

from our very hearts

we were not taught

what we should know

so how could we then

our real culture show?

The subjects which we learnt

Could never, never be

Put into practice

By you or by me

Pray tell me then

How to do with flair

Anything at all

That was kept in our care

For students never were

Taught all those things

which to, all of them

a sense of satisfaction brings

So you can see now

what our children ought to know

in order to be seen

As polished to the core

Finishing schools are there

To teach us all the graces

But they are too expensive

In most of the cases

The schools should therefore start

teaching all they can

to make out of our kids

A cultured woman or man.