{"id":7021,"date":"2021-04-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2021-04-01T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T05:00:00","slug":"consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/consistency\/","title":{"rendered":"Consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn88085187\/1913-04-01\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\"><em>The Tacoma Times, April 1, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n He raved at women\u2019s folly\n \u00a0 \u00a0 In following the fads,\n Declared, with melancholy,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 His money went in scads\n To sate his wifie\u2019s passion\n \u00a0 \u00a0 For shoes and hats and those\n Materials of fashion\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Like lingerie and hose.\n \n At corsets he was sneering,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 At powder and at paint,\n Tight shoes would set him jeering\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With words not few or faint;\n He laughed at bogus tresses;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He scorned the hobble skirt,\n Condemning women\u2019s dresses\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With vim and vigor curt.\n \n So wifie dressed one morning\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To please her hubby\u2019s taste,\n All artifices scorning,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Uncorseted her waist;\n Her shoes of size most ample\n \u00a0 \u00a0 (A hygienic last)\n She meant, she said, to trample\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Her follies of the past.\n \n Her nose was free from powder,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Her hair was all her own,\n Yet far from feeling prouder\n \u00a0 \u00a0 At how her sense had grown,\n Her husband bellowed, \u201cWoman,\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You look a perfect fright;\n Go dress like something human;\n \u00a0 \u00a0 You surely are a sight!\u201d<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> He raved at women\u2019s folly<br \/>\n     In following the fads,<br \/>\n Declared, with melancholy,<br \/>\n     His money went in scads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}