20 SEPTEMBER 1969, Page 7

Soft sell

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS

'It suits salesmen to promote self-indulgence . . . to call love anything which sells tooth- paste or petrol'—Lady Lothian in 'Woman's Journal'.

O mistress mine, what are you selling? Kruschen Salts or Simpler Spelling?

What's to come 'twere best insure. Blondes these days are ten a penny Maybe she's as good as any

Youth's a stuff will not endure.

What is love? 'Tis not a toothpaste.

What grim gums the sad-eyed youth faced

When he heard that love's an ass. Everyone is selling something.

What boys buy, they say, 's a bum thing When love only fills the gas.