The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1894-08-24
OUR LOST TITLE.

Has Something Else Gone with the Old.
Time Title of LADY,"
eff you say female it includes cows
disrespectful, so can't say 'lady%" he
pleaded.
For answer his tyrant picked up the
Sunday Press and began reading out
from the want column such items of
information as that ''Young lady
wishes homework" ''colored lady will
do washing" etc,
"And the other day boy called to
sell me some fish and introduced him
self as the son of the shad-lady round
the corner and Rosa informed me that
she had seed the perlice takin' up a
old drunken lady No, you may not
say it, at least if you are talking of
me-
He squirmed. Its vulgarized,
word which takes it's place? Doesn't
woman sound enisque and unmanner,y
in some connections
She was truthful tyrant. and she
gave reluctant mo" to his first ques-
ton 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 I'M
pleasant connections. Don't you hear
of 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 alteration 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 think
that in losing it we are losing some
thing which society can't 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: II agree
with you, and what's more / think
there is an elevating and refined force
with the use of the words gentleman
and lady They are now almost
tabooed in-I was going to say polite |
society, but we have no such thing
and what is the result or possibly the |
cause? We have a fine-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 |
being called-affect mannish free-and- |
easiness of manners, lift their voices to |
pitch in public places. and |
will apparently take any sort of rude
ness or negligence 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 lady
but which apparently has nothing to
10 with a young woman
''On the other hand where do YOU find
real chivalry and courtesy? You may
augh, but tell You it's among the So
,alled lower classes, who in adopting
our lost titles, have apparently as
'umed also the manners which go with
hem. You won't find the 'colored
gentlemen leaving his lady friend to
scramble off the car unassisted, or find
ng it too much trouble to raise his hat
" take the outside of the pavement as
10 our lanquids wells And she is more
careful to address him as
Mr., to respect his dignity and pre-
erve her own, than the woman who
ocially stands many peg higher. No,
hey may advertise themselves as wash
aides and gentlemen, but they deserve
hose names better than we.'
''0h, certainly" agreed the tyrant.
miably. Which of US can wash?"
Both men laughed. For the last
word, trust "a"
Woman insisted the tyrant.-Phil-
delphia Press.