The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-11-14
NUMBER "a.
Ladies.

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One of the most popular, of American
vulgarisms is the ridiculous use of th
words ''lady" and gentleman" Thes
unfortunate words have been made to d.
such indiscriminate service that they hav
lost all their individuality, and no longe
mean anything The fne old Saxor
woman and 'man' are too plain anC
homely to suit corrupt modern taste, anc
the vulgar notion that LADY, is some
thing tiner and better than woman
has spread through most all classes of SO.
ciety, producing the most absurd results
Women no longer exist and even men are
becoming scarce. The Court of Quarter
Sessions is filled, daily, with ''ladies". who
have assembled to hear how one "lady''
gave another ''Iady" a black eye for say
ing she was mo lady" because she merely
kicked the other Gladys" boy Pat down
stairs. The lady" who presides over the
tish stall in the market refers you to the
lady" opposite for fine assortment of
greens. The revised editions of the poets
will soon be coming out with such modern
amendments as these: ase
''Frailty thy name is lady II
"Oh lady, in our hours of ease, -'.'>
Uncertain, coy and hard to please q" ..t e
Il dare do all that doth become a gentleman. ~
Il now see f
Bone of my bone, flesh Of my flesh, ea
Before me: Lady is her name.N 5y--
And as the vul garism spreads it may at last
force its way into the gravest prose- and
we shall have the awkward lover compelled
to confess that he 'takes his lady to be bis
welded lady," while in the funeral service
we shall be reminded of the gentlemen
that was born Of a lady, The neat, trim,
refined young women who preside at the
counters of stores are beginning to fade
away into ''sales ladies y and it will not
be long before washer ladies 7" do up our
linen for US, while fire gentlemen extin-
guish our CONGREGATIONS, aud 'swork gentle
men" build our houses and railroads
There is deadly affectation in all this,
and yet it is astonishing to observe how
is the vulgarisin. 1t is to he
seen among the circles of fashionable
life, where ignorantly educated young
women resent as a slight any preference
to their honorable distinction of woman
hood, and regard an allusion to male
as a ''man" as a shocking
breach of propriety. When an individual
becomes ashamed of being a woman"
and fancies that she achieves some sort of
social elevation by becoming "a LADY, in
stead, it may be accepted as proof positive
that she is either very ignorant or very
destitute Of right womanly qualities and
principles; and the same rule applies to |
the other sex. There is no reason why a |
young woman who earns her OVID living
should not he in all respects the |
equal, or the superior, Of one who has been
eared in ease, alfluence and luxury A |
sales woman, for instance, may possess all
hat modesty, refinement, intelligence and
yentleness which constitute true woman
rood. If she does possess them, they will |
De recognized byGeveIy one of either sex
who has the capacity for apprecating them,
md she will be hOnored and esteemed &C
;ordingly. But we should be apt to feel |
title suspicious of SALES lady" We |
should be Oh the lookout for affectation, |
:onceit and general silliuess, and we,would |
arely be disappointed Women who glory
n their womanhood are sure to be held in
honor by all manly men, but woman
whose ambition is to lie called 'talady,pj
because she ilnagines that it makes her
omething higher and better and of more
i'll SOCIETY, will win contempt u
where she courts respect, and we'll deserved i
iducule where she most desires to be held L
n esteem. Let us have more true tnen
nd women in American society, and fewer
ounterfeit ladies aud gentlemen, and SO.
iety at large will be greatly benefited
ereby. &c ns9d shi 4