The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-10-30

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fire is needed, Nearly all readily f1ow-
erinc plants will bloom, and there viii !
scarcely be week sdtTing the winter
fthat,a bouquet may. not be gathered. II |
1.-THE house is properly managed. = The
summer is the. time to makei 1T and hayel
II te1ao!y p1 lor- - lalll, !. --L-nAH ri 1q91
wal Mr., Mrs.,i and Mrs. t.r9i,fFs 4
Richard Grant aWhite writes to the
New York Tlpsesr ? Il am, asked when whhe il
became the custom to. call married
women sMissiz,"l instead of'E1g Mis-
tress,Y a4ibeieye that it would be diiiii7-j d.Ff
cult to fix upon time when tins de-
plorable change IN mpronanciat1eai to6kt
fplace, and, indeed, am very sure that that
the clipped and degraded form OF mas
tress made ifs way Slowly among, the
folk who were born ITO speak English, sslt b,
and did not prevail, pnth some genera
tons had passed away &aftef' dtaeahe1
into q, ,eertain vogue. q In facty yqllstresss.
| is not yet absolutely driven from the
field for there are people both LiiR sEngl
land and, America MlR disclaim aalssay,
and cling to the old, full-sounding, Dig
nified n,sstYess.i But although the qaes-i
tionr rpropounded to, me can not be eH71 ri,
actly answered, it gives Us a good occa-
sion to glance at the history of our nlosts
commonly used titles pf, respect, ,dT fItt
7 Mister is, like iMssiz, degraded form
of better word, Master, and Nastereit-
seH, is the, product Of q grad9Inll a9I decay Of #
the Latin 7aaqtster, both words having
the same meaning! Master,i however, j
is not. directly derived from gasqgister.,,
! The Latin word, in the Course Of those
/ lcenturies whiehwe sealL the Dark Agesg
dropped the g and-bsesme a,aaister, or
a,aistre, in old Fgench, nhn this form 81 n n IT
passed into Old English, in which 1t is
found always, sof ALMOST always, written
either with al ers ayr and and t%here there is no 9
room for, doubt that the pronunciatlon
of the VOID was the sane bothi in 'Ens'
land and in France. .eIs9fS 81 % .tus'
4 Our wretched little Msssiz has the
same snoblg descent asl Mister ~ aPhe
feminine form. Of taaaister is maafsteress,
and the latter word naturally soon fol-
lowed the former into use. At first it
hadjs,like application, and was given " 70
women who were only maisteresses.
But it lost this deviation much sooner
than its masculine counterpart dld 4 he 1y1
desire to please the vanity Of women,
sometimes .icalIett oehitahic, sometimes
gallant, which has done much greater
harm, did some harm in leading quickly
to heutapblieation Of: this title toe ALI
ladies-that is, all gentlewomen,t who
had no other. Sooner than n,dister, too,
it lost it's d both in inPfonunciation and in
smelling, Mistress i, much older II Eng e
lish sound than Mister.
| Mistress was given, as title of honor
to young girls as well as to matrons early
in the sixteenth century, if not before
that time. OF its use in Othisimanneri id
the time Of Eizabethn Elig Sha9ksgsare,s S,t9 e.. Is
cemedy,sis an examples Anne lRageiwas
q. mere slip. of, a girl. but being the the
daughter Of gentleman, She was ssMis-
tressea!, This use of Mistress prevailed
until about the reign, of Queen Anne,
Until the end of the seventeenth cen
turys summarized II ladies were called
Mistress Mistress Mary, Mistress Betty,
and So forth. h.o'A As' their mothers
7 were also called'g Mistress, sithe
fashion makes sUrf7ee confusion for the
modern readefl of Iold-time literature,
particularly in, the old English comedies.
| In the draDadtis persong of these there
VIII be half az dozen ladies, all styled
d Mrs, of whom some will be married ma ri
r women, and others young, unmarred
girls ftiis not lalways easy tor discover
, the exact position Of these ladies', even even
2 by their manners, particularly when the
, Mrs. is widow ~ tis's*A's-f -. .fAii!i.EH
!, Miss, as a title OF respect, is the most
/, modern of the sthree common titles OF
! our day. Two hundred years ago il
, was title Of positive sdisrespeetl1 and
81 was applied only to iunchaste, women ~
4 1T came to be thus generally used in the
, time Of Charles III. !. In a well knows
passage lin ss.Eyelyn's Diary, I pf the
: date of 1642, he records: s' LIN this acted
: We faire 5afid famous comedian callS
. Roxalana, from We part she performed
! and I think it Waa~tha.-last, she being
| taken to be the Earle of QXfordls misse
+ Tas at this time they began to call lewd
women n9.".A This Shows good ireasof
why young unmarried ladies dis aot .chafafe W, &
ter were not then g Misses" The prac
!. IItiee in question did not, 'however' pre-
/ vsil very long ;t1itf only lasted ,througsl
the Stuarts, and went out OF Englant
: with them. We are able to tracen th'
I history of this word BY the. help, of tn
: : comedies Of the time! Those exenaplar,,
= gentlemep,l William Il Wycherley, III
: John Vanbrugh, and William Copgreve
have left ,ininistak bleH Evidence upei
4 the ,subjeet,i Il How and whywas # lltE35aa llt3a
: Mss so suddenly and so thorough.
= z changed its grade and its Significance
: nothing remains to Show, I'VE pnl
2 Know that the change wasi made, an
!. that the title, which was 9ne.i OF idisrf
:. spect under Charles ii. and James II,
Il Became one Of Respect anfer oWflHsf
: and Mary and Anns,lii4as.d 10 dss1a
n APHoroesAPHExp inb Gerinanyi4ra
+ made seais and stufaps'with the portrait
1 efhis.customsrso ,aAgthin aaNaa of gsis
le tine, sensitized with bichromate of po
i ash, Is exposed t6 TIE actidn of the hyl
e pndera pAotosr raphispokitNe kg WAln
D. the parts acted upon are rendered; L
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