A CIRCULAR

As “legal representative”

I read a missive not my own,

On new designs the senders give

For clothes, in tints as shown.

Here figure blouses, gowns for tea,

And presentation-trains of state,

Charming ball-dresses, millinery,

Warranted up to date.

And this gay-pictured, spring-time shout

Of Fashion, hails what lady proud?

Her who before last year was out

Was costumed in a shroud.