Miss Viola Gwendolyn Gladys
Von Schatz
Had boxes and boxes of beautiful hats,
Trimmed with ribbons, and laces, and
buckles, and feathers,
For all sorts of places, and all sorts of weathers.
There were jet hats, and lace hats, and velvets,
and straws,
There were hats made of beaver, and hats made
of gauze;
There were sailors, and beehives, and turbans,
and toques,
There were gipsies, and Gainsboroughs, mush-
rooms, and pokes,
With feathers upstanding, and feathers hung
down,
With flowers on the brim, and with flowers on the
crown.
Yet, what do you think? Miss Von Schatz would
declare,
In petulant tones, she had no hat to wear!
She tried on a blue one, then tossed it aside,
Exclaiming, “That brim is six inches too wide!”
Von Schatz
Had boxes and boxes of beautiful hats,
Trimmed with ribbons, and laces, and
buckles, and feathers,
For all sorts of places, and all sorts of weathers.
There were jet hats, and lace hats, and velvets,
and straws,
There were hats made of beaver, and hats made
of gauze;
There were sailors, and beehives, and turbans,
and toques,
There were gipsies, and Gainsboroughs, mush-
rooms, and pokes,
With feathers upstanding, and feathers hung
down,
With flowers on the brim, and with flowers on the
crown.
Yet, what do you think? Miss Von Schatz would
declare,
In petulant tones, she had no hat to wear!
She tried on a blue one, then tossed it aside,
Exclaiming, “That brim is six inches too wide!”
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