Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-09-20
From the Ohio CdltiYator.
sis She a Lady 20

She a Lady -
How often do we hear the question asked. is she
lady would ask in return what are tie requisites
and gaudilv Who spends her time IN 1oleness, or
worse than idleness, because she IS TOO proud TO
work WHILE perhaps her father husband, or broth
ers toll from morn till night Tor ner support Is
= she who leaves her SICK friend, mother, perhaps
in the care of hired nurse to attend party OF
Measure or a ball Or children in care OF mere
child Too often alas are these things done hy
those who claim the title of lady.
Twas once asked in regard to TREND OF Whom
was Shaking, Is she much Of lady? I answered.
YES. in every sense of the word. l then asked the
person what she meant by the term Lady She an
swered by asking, if she did her own work! Yes;
she sews, knits and sometimes spins; she goes with
her husband (who is minister) to visit the poor
and sick: she makes her husbands clothes Except
coats) entirely; she make nice, good bread can
cook meat and vegetables to perfection, and make
buildings pies and cake she can also converse with
YOU upon history. natural philosophy, astronomy
botany, &C., or the common events OF the day and
all in a yery intelligent and lady-like manner.
true lady will not think it beneath her to do a.
nything that duty or circumstances may require
How often do you hear it asked is such, or such an
one lady and the reply is, OH no she's but tar
mers daughter, or wife, as the may be. have
known of farmers daughters, on being sent board
ing school, a few miles from home becoming asham-
ed to say their parents were farmers: ashamed to
own that they ever MIXED cow, washed the dishes,
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mers wife, too of her daughters % intend to raise
my daughters ladies' they shall not work and drudge
about the kitchen, have DONE making their hands
as hard and rough as wash woman's The, would
not look we'll at fashionable party or ballroom,
after cooking the stove till their faces are as red
as mans who works in the all day"
Alas, vain, shalow-mnded woman is that the
chief end for which you raising your daughters,
to grace ballroom and to despise their parents
for if they despise labor, they will desplse those who
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be useful-to keep their houses, assist their
parents and to think themselves dignied by perfor
ming useful labor.
The notion of it's being degrading entertained by
certain CLASSY for lady to do the work OF her own
household is fast passing away, and is to be hoped
never to be revived. What noble example OF the
true lady, in both theory and practice had we in the
much lamented editress of our department of the
| Cultivator. Long will she be remembered by many
! of u.s. into whose hearts she had penned her way
! She not ashamed to tell u.s. she did her work
And where is her superior in refinement and attain
ments Let all strive like her, to be true ladies
AS lady once said in writing to her young sister
strive to be lady in all you do in all you say in
all your actions, be LADY," whether it be in the
kitchen parlor, be a lady.
Respectfully, '. W.
Fairfield Co., O., July, 1850.
:'This is my funeral, if you please SIR was thu
} exclamation, not of who like Timothy Dexter
was buried in his lifetime, in order to see how flu
of humanity, fisherman down in Maine, who hat
lost his betterhaf. The relatives and friends wer
gathered at the house. the prayer said, and thu
clergyman began his exhortation to those assembled
In the of it, as he quoting frequent pas
sages of Scripture, of the deacons of his churc
rose and remarked, in a very solemn and elongate
tome Dear brother that last passage is not in tn
Bible, no how nor nowhere I'll bet shad | know
taint' Hereupon the bereayed widower and chic
mourner jumped from his seat and patting the dea
con his shoulder, exclaimed-'' Pray. my FRIEND
you just sit down-sit right down-and don't bottle
the parson. This, please God, is my funeral-and
will have at it just what kind of preaching take
notion to- When your funeral comes, deacon. do a
you Hke--but this if you please, is mine. Now: g
en- T1S tough someWhat nonPussed by tt
unexpected Interruption proceeded to the close
the services notwithstanding the frequent protest
from the pious deacon, against what he called falls
and apocryphal Scriptural quotations. he'd bet
shad against halibut. "-L0lreV Courier.
, Translation.
'Well, now, you've been to college two years,
suppose you can translate Latin some, can't you o.
Eyes, | can translate anything"
"Can you Well, what does this mean-PGt
n0scitur non ft!''
f "Oh! that means nasty poet is not ft!''
s Not fit for what q
You don't quote the whole-pro decentibus socie
S tdte-not fit for decent socety!"
J, 'Ah indeed and what does ne smor mean q