“Good gracious!” cried Miss Cockatoo,
“Whatever on earth shall I do?
Bright colors to-day
Have gone out, and they say
High head-dresses now are taboo.”

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXIV, July 1912, no. 3, p. 479.]

A TAPIR who lived in Malay
Was reading the fall styles one day,
When he cried with delight,
“My figure’s all right:
Tapir waistes are the fashion, they say.”

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXIII, November 1911, no. 1, p. 160.]

A lady went hunting a flat,
In a brand new chanticler hat;
Said the landlord, “My dear,
We don’t keep poultry here,”
And she threw him downstairs just for that.

M. Mazie King, Cincinnati, Ohio.

[Foolish Limericks Now and Then are Relished by the Best of Men. Chicago Tribune, 24 April 1910. panel 4.]