The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-07-29
MEN AND GENTLEMEN-WOMEN
AND LADIES.

"Men are made in the image of God."-
Gentlemen are manufactured by tailors, bar
bers, and boot blacks Men are the sons of
God; gentlemen, of the goddess of Fashion,
whose caprices deform hes. with all sorts Of
fantastical airs, shapes, and appearances, and
whose virtues are on her a part of her,
Men are true to the nature whose lord they
are, whose perfections they embody; gentle
men are complete distortions and perversons
of that nature, and the more so the greater
gentlemen. Men are men; noble, Godlike;
gentlemen are THINGS, play-things, for the
ladies to frt with.
Woman is the last most perfect work OF
God; ladies are the productions of silkworms,
miliners, and dressing-mads. Woman is
all nature; ladies all art; and the more ar
tifcial in every thought, word and deed, the
greater the lady. The woman consists in
her mind, her soul, the inimitable perfection
of her nature; the lady is made up of bus
ties, cotton, ribbons, figured cloths, flowers,
Sc, tied together in fantastic forms, with
needles and thread, and overshadowed with
laces and rouge. To the women the out
ward adorning matters little, the gracos and
the beauties of the moral being, every thing;
while the perfections of the lady are cover
ed up-are completely smothered beneath
those outword adornings which are put on
and off at pleasure. The woman consists in
her pirtues-the lady in her toilet. By as
much as the ethereal spirit of intellect and
moral purity exceeds gold, silver, precious
stones, and shining attire, twisted and plated,
now into one form, and anon into another,
by so much does woman excel the lady;
and in so much as the highest protection of
omnipotence excGls the patched, bogged1,
and blackened manufacture of human arll-
zans, by so much does the man excel the
gentleman, and the woman the lady.
The preceding was suggested by the fol-
lowing from the N. o. Herald.
Men are quarried from the living rock
as with thunderbolt Gentlemen are
moulded as the potter's clay by the dainty
figures of fashion. Women are the produc-
ton of warm, rich soil, where the wind
blows freely, and the heart feels vlsltlngs OF
Gods ever changing weather. Ladies are
the offspring of hot-bed, the growths OF
green house, tended and watched, lest the
WINGS OF heaven may WISH thoi io|0s wv
roughly, till they are good for nothing as wo-
men, at any rate as wives and mothers"
If these things be so, to call female
lady is a doubtful compliment, if not posi-
tive disgrace; while the appellation OF wo-
man is the highest compliment that can be
bestowed on the other sex-so high that 1t
should be used but seldom, though tad'es
should be, as it is, almost universally appl,Ied
TO our feminines. Nan, TOO, should be but
seldom used; while gentlemen are as COM
mon as flies in summer. God grant that we
may have as many women as we now have
mushroom ladies', and as few ladies' as we
now have women; and that our gentlemen
NAV be converted into men-'hat, in short,
the human may take the place Of the drty'-
ciaJ.
Ladies' ears are decidedly vulgar, except
when bound down and covered up by har.
Hence the propriety of cropping every tent
nine fashionable, because exposed ears, ike
the fifth wheel of coach, make the head
look so inferior, besides being always IN the
way.
Seriously: how silly the prevalent ladies'
fashions of wearing the hair over the ears