The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-19
LADY N

UIuJner tbmon .Sansa Co,nr,arts ON oro.,n
Sod 100 Social Topics OF the Day.
maioritv is strange how questions OF the
tba SboIyy, est interest enter public discussion
satisfied he hunlDlest ress. A correspond
stea1 of' from Lake Huntington puts this
ItoG a. ~ Stion:
Uers n nth the term widow lady correct ?"
hnt - may be under certain circum
deserve ill., III W., " Go UoGG aS@inst IL nls9
anG GGeHSii94dow and can properly be called q
b bnS she must be Il widow lady, but OF
t HuStneSe' the absurd, tinical and unladylike
r n"n ~ ftations, the unnecessary and indis-
fn y unahinate u.s. OF the word lady is, r
y lVu Z, the worst. The Idea that women
aole " w rot be considered ladies seems to
b stricken terror to the female soul,
by persons affected with this dread,
For ma %Oru Is Iraggea IN on every possible
in coHd Substitute till one might almost think
WassoI col the two divisions of the female
~ pNo%"Iks, the lady!ike and %unladylike, bad
only 80 Cd disdoined on raf f - % W we're enoSJ
has fairly Of tbair tr,e cSo s" nisAo a oianu
oaIo H. nee. A widow is always a woman,
%in "oa a widow i, therefore, always Il
t aS0u M"nS1owed woman, and that is the fullest
ond INSCRIPTION of her stage which can be-
anu "1ililed within the limit of good taste,
tnuoouo' lhe consciousness exist of sufficient
~ e. eyoo flhty TO make 1t known to the world
~ here y she is a lazy by her manners and
udcklhg ring, rather tran by the publication
enIodts eYhe advertiser mt OF the fact, than no
tel' LOGGER title will be employed. She knows
Cue VOICE is a lady just as she knows that her
nasal UWle is Mary or Emma; but she is no
smell anfe anxious to publish and make n
dlzzlness W OF one fact than the other.
hacking most conspicuous illustration of the
you are slined use of the word lady is its
Inc mOr6llCatiOn, whether bV thama = Ives or
greater I'll we don't know, to those charming
SYMPHONIC obllging young women who dispense
nually, wir employers goods TO us over the
above synhter in return for our money. There
and end IL common practice of calling them
common, Blades instead OF saleswomen. One
GUS, less utt as well say iore-gentleman instead
fully treate brennan. Certainly we imagine that the
-ral verdict would be that a large
Prity OF those young girls are la les.
why they or their admirers should
AIGw = Y to force the public to a constant
yond the g~laration OF that fact by insisting that
wo they should be called salesladies, COM
ohm mon sense affords no explanation. The
of character OF a lady should be so irrepres-
ND slDle as to reveal itself upon the most
Ming casual contact and it would naturally
ssed shrink rom the blatant and common
n to n%otoriety which the modern custom OF
with the shop prescribes. Let the word lady
him 70, anu let A~adyhkenes be cultivated and
such intensified under the name of woman,
The same remarks also apply to tho
q To use OF the word gentleman" We say
nee that Mr.. B. is a gentleman Of fine char
acter and intellect, while a description
the OF him Invested OF aiectation would
n to nepresens MN as a man. Man and
the woman are mucn more sonorous, hu-
the msne and desirable terms than "gentie.
rnit mad" and @ady." 1t may be said that
ont in nine cases out Of ten their use IS
much more RentlemanlV and ladvliks-