Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1850-05-02

w OMhN VS.. IsADlRs.- w nat DlunueIlnu,
miserable work folks make of i; when they
endeaver to Gle, ate things by giving them
new, or affected titles What yulgarity is
equal to the thrce-sodden vulgarity Of ere
fnement g. We think it was Dickens who
complained that there were no longer any
boys in all Eng 'and-lhat "the boys went
out with George the Third" A similar ca
lamity has betalleu us in America. We
have no longer any mOmen,-or at least,
no acknowledged specimens Of that interes-
ting portion of the human race Tho wo-
men have gone, extinct, (according 10 the
popular phraseoloey,) AMI have been super
ceded by ladies :" Alack-a-day for the
change We regard woman as "the no
blest work Of God :" but "a lady" at her
highest pitch of perfection, is only the no
bles work of French milliner. Just APP
ply the term, for example, as well TO the
highest as lowest grades of the geItler sex,
and the ludcrous absurdity of its use will
make you chary of the word forever after.
person wishing to see the females wards
in prison, was answered by the jailor,
"Sr, we have no iad,cs here at present"
a clergyman, dscoursng of the religious
incllnatlons of woman, inquired, with much
emphasis, "who were last at the cross
Ladies. Who were last at the sepulchre
Ladies'" Ladies' God forbid !-Boston
Post.
We copy the above for lis excellent
sense. Above all things We detest that
fnical feeling which rejects the name of
woman and adopts in i's place that of lady.
Yet the preference is not unfrequcntly
symptomatic of those who make it, The
fashionable female, who is so Mortified to be
called 4 woman, has really few ofthe nobIer
qualt es OF the sex but is a mere machine
of conven,ionalism, fabrication of the
boarding school, ballroom and miliner.-
To dress, to dance, to lisp anectedly, to
lirt her fan at party, to spend her fathers
or her husbands income, to neg ect her
children, and TO "grind the faces" of her
servants IN order to find money for her selfish
purpose, this is the creature who is usually
called "a fine lady, and would consider
herself insuted if denomnaied a woman.
We lately visited one of the IN nuiacto-
ries from which fine ladies' are turned out,
fashionable boarding school. The gIls
here were taught music, dancing, French,
Italian, and indeed A" all the accomplish
mcnts :" it was the boast of the instilu-
tion that more than twenty teachers pro-
fessors" they called themselves, visited it
daily. But, with all these accomplish
menls, we could not find that anything use
ful was taught; indeed many OF the scho-
ars Ike the principal herself, did not know
how to speak aud write Eng ish correctly,
Nor was this all. Whic the intellect was
strained, in order to impart useless acquire
merts, NO attention whatever was paid 10
health. Thirty pupils slept in one room.
Exercise Nere orbdden, except in the
shape of molo,onous walk, AM even this
was not allowed daily. The natural con
sequences were that all the pupils were
salow, and out OF health, and tie seeds
more than one Fine, healthy, nobe-hcart-
ell girls 90 mo the academy, and after Il
year or two spent there, come out mere
butterflies, rendered forever useless for the
practical pur2os of life. With the Bos
ton Pos. We say, away with such females.
L0dies forsooth Give us "A true woman, g,
unpervered by fashionable foies. FopS
ard fine ladies may go together.