Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-04
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 If you say female il includes ,3wy feminine sounds affected. woman 5isrespeetful, SO cant say tadF?" he pleaded
 For answer his tyrant picked up the Sunday Press and began reading out from fhe want column such items of information as that "Yaang lady wishes bousev9rlS. "coIored lady will lo washing, etc.
 And the other day boy called to sell Me some fish and introduced him self as the son of the sbad-lady round the corner. and Rosa informed me that she had seed the perlice talzin up a 5ld drunken lady. No you may not say it. at least if you are talking of me-
 He squirmed its yuigarized, I grant you. but honestly. $ there any word which takes it's place. Doesn't woman sound enisque and unmannerly in some conneetions?"
 She was truthful tyrant. and she gave a reluctant No to his first ques- tion and Yes to his second. He con tinued. plaintively.
 Woman isn't descriptive, generic name, including all ages, as is lady and is certainly used in as many un- pleasant connections. Don't you hear of d drunken woman as often as the other phrase? Lady is a word which came in with chivalry, and carries with it a subtle suggestion of the elevation and adoratiou of the sex (which for ages had been known and despised as women No. the one word has mean ing which the other hasn't and l think that in losing it we are losing some thing which society can well get along without"
 There was third listener who up to this point had not spoken. Now he did so. removing his meerschaum from his lips and speaking slowly: ssI agree with you and what more think there is an elevating and refined force with the use of the words gentleman and lady They are now almost tabeoed in-I was going to say polite society. but We have no such thing and what is the result or possibly the eausea We have a fne-looking, we'll dressed, well-informed, clever set of young people. but with the worst man ners to be found inside the century The young women. as they insist on beinq called affect mannish free-and- easiness of manners, lift their voices te screaming pitch in public places. and will apparently take any sort of rude ness or negl igenee from the other sex without resentment or surprise; while said other sex seems to be forgetting more and more completely to respect that divinity which doth hedge a lady but which apparently has nothing to 1 do with a young woman,
 aOn the other hand where do you find real chivalrv and eourtesy2 You may laugh. but l tell you it's among the so. called lower classes, who in adopting opr lost titles, have apparently as enmad also the manners which go with them. You won't find the 'coloreo gentlemen leaving his lady friend tC scramble off the ear unassisted, or ind ino it too much trouble to raise his hal o. take the outside of the pavement a' do our lanouid idswells And she is more nunctiIiouslv careful to address him a'
 Nh. to respect his dignity and pre- serve her own, than the woman wh' socially stands many peg higher No
 they may advertise themselves as wash
 ladies and gentlemen, but they desery'
 those names better than we, aoh. certainly" agreed the tyrant amiablv. Which of us can wash?" Both men laughed For the las word. trust a--- .Womane insisted the tyrant.-Fhn adelphia Press