An Easy Mash

Sonnets of a Chorus Girl, a 1909 how-to-marry-a-millionaire manual by S.E. Kiser, with numerous illustrations by Henry S. Eddy, is divided into 17 instructive poems. Here's the first one:

An Easy Mash

Last night I saw him in the second row;

You ought of saw the way he looked at me!

And when I done my fancy kick — oh, gee!

He simply yelled, it seemed to please him so.

They say his father has a pile of dough

And he's the only son. I guess I'll see

If something can't be done. It ought to be

An easy thing to get the boy in tow.

He don't look much as though he knew a lot,

But if he has money I won't care;

I guess I wouldn't like to have a yacht

And ropes of pearls and fancy things to wear!

And then there are the papers — think of what

They'll say when I have caught my millionaire.