Lovely woman wants Sapolio

I've spent too long trying to make sense of the cryptic verbiage from this nineteenth-century soap ad.

The first line must be a reference to Oliver Goldsmith's poem "When lovely woman stoops to folly."

Next, the ad writers evidently tried to come up with something that would rhyme with 'Sapolio,' but what did they mean by "what she wants must go"?

Ainslee's Magazine - Dec 1899

     Posted By: Alex - Sat May 13, 2023
     Category: Advertising | Nineteenth Century





Comments
I searched for Sapolio ad jingles in Google images and found several more examples. I think they were probably just meant to to be humorous. Could they have been an inspiration for the Burma Shave signs we used to see along America's highways? The cadence seems very similar.
Posted by Fritz on 05/13/23 at 04:41 AM
The shop owner, Vladimir Lenin, doesn't have Sapolio. He's trying to think how to quickly solve this woman's washday problem so he can get back to planning the revolution.

Posted by Virtual in Carnate on 05/13/23 at 08:19 AM
? It just means "what she wants must happen." What's so unclear about that?
Posted by Richard Bos on 05/13/23 at 09:09 AM
30 years ago:
"What she wants, heh heh,"
(pulls t shirt over head)
"IS ME, CORNHOLIO!
"She's shopping for TP for her--"
This sucks, Beavis!

Too late now! It's stuck in your head!
Posted by Bill the Splut on 05/13/23 at 10:37 AM
I think Richard nailed it.
Posted by F.U.D in Stockholm on 05/13/23 at 01:00 PM
If you're wondering how they could use a name that's reminiscent of polio, according to Wikipedia "Major polio epidemics were unknown before the 20th century."
Posted by ges on 05/14/23 at 11:34 PM
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