A Good Wish

September 1923 George S. Chappell
A Good Wish
September 1923 George S. Chappell

A Good Wish

By GEORGE S. CHAPPELL

NO object in the world is viewed So variously as the Nude:

Applauded on our Salon walls,

Though much deplored in music-halls.

Yet where the moral line may be

Is something far too deep for me.

This maid who—on the movie screens—

Adores the snappy bedroom scenes,

Is pained and shocked when she observes

Her mistress's uncovered curves;

Though what she sees that is not right

I can't discern. I wish I might