Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1859-03-24
Ladies and Women.


Ladies and Women.
Some words have magical effect
on us, from the mental pictures con-
nected with them, or from the estima-
ton in which we think the things
represented by them are held. If two
or more words express the same quail
tiles in an object, and one of these
words implies manifestation of these
qualities more valued, We are fiattered
when that word is applied to US
What human female is not more
pleased to be called lady than to be
called woman? When the word is
spoken, nobody, now, thinks of what
is said to have been its original mean
ing-one uho giyes bread Neither, as
commonly used in this country, does
one think of a woman of rank, so call
ed. But, lady is something nice.
redolent of band boxes. The word is
suggestive Of ribbons and dress max
ing, delicacy and leisure, money and
ease: and the puerilities of Fictitious
refinement so predominate in the mod
ern training Of the young, that these
things and conditions are considered
as tie good of life.
Lady the word is full of softness
and refinement, accompanied with
weakness, and dependence. The white
fingers, dexterous in ornamental art,
glitter and tantalize; the eye, unused
to watch over the feeble, flashes to en-
chantment; the voice, using cullel
words, ravishcs with sweetness new
er tested by corroding acids. Lady
the word falls from the lips like the
dropping Of balsam. But, sometimes,
we are amused by its queer use. We
have heard Of a coarse woman who al
ways calls her scrubbing- woman, 1.-The
lady that washes for me-" Why not?
"Is Miss Potter a lady, mammal"
asked little girl of six years, who
was with her mother visiting in GER
tain city. Eyes, Miss Potter is real
lady," the mother replied. "But,
mamma, she works." returned the
child; "she washes, and cooks break
fast; how can she be a lady?" The
ornamental only is associated with the
word lady.
But the word woman snlacks of
nothing artificial. 1t means only what
the Lord God made for man to love
and to live with as part of himsclf-a
dearer part, and part he will not do
without. Many men do. in truth, live
their whole lives apart from this half
which would make them perfect men;
but it is because some lady has given
them a serpent instead of the bread
their souls craved; or the finer half
has, in the Transforming process of
fashionable culture, become SO changed
to lady, that the stupid men do not
recognize in it the one designed to
finish up the structure of their man
hood. Perhaps, indeed. the modern
schools have so modified mind and
body, that the "last best gift to man"
is no longer "help-meet" for him.
The rib is so bent that it will not fit;
he dares not say it is his lost one. SO
the poor bachelor goes through life
mourning for his spare-rib. All that
he sees seem too polished to be nat
ural.
What female when called woman,
feels quickening of the blood? None.
1t is common word, expressing a
common object simPls, free, and like
all common things coming direct from
Gods hand, Just adapted to mans
nature Woman expresses just the
combination of qualities which fills
the vacuum in a true mans heart; Just
what is fitted to establish his happi-
ness, to perfect his human existence
/ When a real woman marries real
man, they can not be put asunder
God hath Joined them. Ladies car
never meet the heart-want of man. II
they marry. it is to their mutual scr.
row and chagrin. Ladies are beauti
ful. enchanting But the true mar
wishes to go through life natural be
ing rather than an enchanted one