American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-12-07
LADY IOAis.hS.

nfee small hoiSckseDcrS on Il
,nr;.ll scale, in the middle rank O.
lie" write disqr isi.ion in the Gin
cinna:i Commercial on Lady Loaf
clown dressed up III buttons NJ
matter bow high Il woman climbs
upon the social ladd r, there is al
ways stiilso higher height which
she can't scale, some other woman
over her head who looks down upon
aei aal gives her days and nights
IF jealousy and heartache. Not n
blessed woman of them all is happy
snd contepted i'll the soil wherein
fate has planted her, bnt mnst needs
spend her best time and strength in
frantic efforts to pail hers: Ii out by
the roots and transplant herself
somewhere else. The snobs who
ride in circus chariots curl i'll their
noses at the schoolmistresses, the
-choolmistress look down from inf
mite heights upon the clerks and
,lressmakers in turn pay it off with
interest upon the kitchen girls. What
nonsense, what snprcme tom foulery
it all is! Is schoo.mistress any
letter or higher mp than a washer
voman2 Not bit. And are not
he mistress ard washerwomen both
infinitely better and higher up than
the lady ioafers-,he Sole Moores
of the femme sex, in short? Yea,
verify.
Women are the most absurd crea-
lures, all owing to the sill, fancy
hat it is ladylike t. be q loafer. A
little time ago one of my small busy
housekeeper frieuds asked lady loa-
ier caller what had become of her
sister.
''She goes down town every day,
now, says the lady loater, heslta.,ny-
~.
"Is she at work." quoth the
l.ousekeeper.
well, ye-yes," says the lady loa-
fer. still more hesitatlugly.
"What does she do? asked my
friend.
the lady loafer stsmmered and
backed off painfully two or three
times, and finally made clean breast
of it thusiy.
"She-she-she has charge of the
in a-dressnaking estab-
lishlnent. She has moth ng to do
with the dressmaking. She has
charge of the trimmings. It's not
common dressnak!ng establishment.
She has nothing to do with the dress
making. She has charge of the
It's one OF the fashiona-
ole dressmakers She won't make a
dress for u poor person.
Goa glory! fan nae with cabbage
ai!,quoth my friend. the small, busy
the idea of a body's dressmak er
setting herself up to be thighstocra-
;y.' The laurels of the lady lcafers
N the circus chariots are quite faded
md withered after that. And yet,
why not a dressnaker Isn't money
made with pork, whisky, bids, soap,
allow and tobacco? Those are the
foundations upon which onr
American nobility founI their airy
castles of aristocrdcv. YOU know, and
[ m sure dressmaking is quite IL high
and honorable as any of them.
But the aristosratic world may 90
its length, from the dressmlking ar
down to the whisky aristo-
:racy. for all us three small, busy
We only ask of the
poor lady loafers, who strain their
ives to the last notch to initiate the
-:ch lady loafers, but they will kindly
20 about their business aud Eot in
errupt our daily work, obligins Us to
seem gay when we are sad; to keep
Up silly, hollow appearances which
We detest; to lose our precious time
md appear sweet-temoered and sm,l-
ny, all The the while that we feel, to
,Gt it mild. like an enrased hornet;
o make believe richer than we are;
o tell abominable lies and say that
We are glad to see 'em, when we wish
hey were i'll Bungay; to sit up in our
title parlors chatterinS like IL lot of
oil PARROTS, when we onght to be
lown ill the kitchen making bread;
hese feminine Stole Moores who
orce themselves unwelcome into our
ives, making us for moment as
die and discontinued as themselves,
nd then going away and telling of
'ur poverty. our little family jars and
ur mild curtain lectures. How
you'd men look packing up their
raps and going Writing, travelling
rom house to house with basket
nd Il band box, roosting down at
our freside week Or two, and then
ackiny off and slishtins down upon
ONE OF her fireside week or two,
Ud keeping it up till they make the
ound Ut their acqua,Itances? Do
ancy visiting mai once! Oh, it is
ltensely asgravating to be visiting
> idle, good-for nothing people
HON YOU don't want. We only wish
;ese lady loafers had to work as kard
S we do, and DO worried as thoy
'orry us, that's all.
Ought we to come out plain and
III 'en how they torment us, and !
ow we don't want 'em ever to set |
ut upon oar premises again Try |
, We who eau. We cant. We |
ouldn't for our lives. We don't
now what to do. Sometimes we get !
list desperate enough to threaten 10
p and actually go off Iectnrin3-lec-
lrirg on lady Ioafers- They'd feel |
reatlinily it we were to do that now.
10 greater plague could be Inflicted
n this poor, tongue suffering world
nan for these desperate, determined |
omen to go ffon place to place
about their wronss.'