Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-21

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| FrSEHED an considerable
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| G2hlMfAM,A>, wealth, but lady, II
| Nj ftWAIEN\\\N she had not had dol
| HA-l IHy/NEN\\iI lar in the world. Her
| 'Mrk3 | ! UMll question made my
| w IVY memory take a flying
| ~ leap into the past.
@%hA Once upon a time /
| SA' was teaching a class
| of small Arabs In a. mission Sunday school
and two of my young charges got into a
| dispute over the meaning of the word
! lady" ''Nibsey" was quite positive that n
| certain supercilious young teacher was not
lady. and "Blackie'' insisted that she was
| because she wore 'dimuns," and they were
proceeding to settle their differences in ifs
| tic fashion when 1 interfered; out of Gu
riosity, 1 asked Nibsey what his idea of a
| lady might be.
| "Why-its-a-woman- and then he
seemed to have reached the end of his de-
scriptive vocabulary. That gave Blackie
| his chance and the young fend chuckingly
broke in with: Course it's a woman! A
lady amt nuthin' but woman wot's got a
caridge an coachie. an dimuns, and hors
'er head up SO, juss though she were
smellin' of thinks she didn't banker ar'ter,"
| and he elevated his nose as the young
teacher in question was in the habit OF do
ing when she came into the malodorous dis
! trict.
| Nibsey eyed him disdainfully. "Wot's yer
givin' us. chumpy? A lady wouldn't let on
there was no smells around, That's what
makes lady. lady is a woman volts
growed up fine as silk an don need no
trimmin's to make folks think she's real"
Blackie shifted and doubled up his fist
| a Int orli
stration by asking Nibsey what constituted
a gentleman. Here the incpient young phil
osopher was more at home, and answered
me glibly enough
Hes a bloke wot don't have to go
| 'roun' tellin' folks who was his dad to git
! 'em to loan i'm nickelr' The language of
these two definitions might be improved
] upon, but the sentiment, never! 1t was this
scene that was wildly brought to mind
by my friends question; 1 told her the tale
and she laughed heartily enough.
'Oh, II could only get some of the
| FLOODED poor with whom / have to deal
see it in that light 1 could make it so
much easier for all concerned. l have no
patience in the world with these people
who say indolently, the world owes me a
living and then fold their hands and
make others slave for them, because It is
members to earn an honest dollar by hon
est labor"
OF course I inquired the cause of her
present state of perturbation, since she
seemed to court the question. rs ii the
daughter of an ex-Congressman who wants
few dollars to buy flowers for her faith
er's grave, or a young widow who wants
the loan of a few hundred until she gets
place in the seed department at fifty
month and ten to go to the one who gets
her the position?' ~
Good Blood and Empty Pocket.
at is not quite that bad, though it is
serious enough. You remember Marian
Reals?' 1 did very distinctly. She was one
of the models of the girlhood of my friend
and myself, but had contracted a most I'M
happy marriage and gone from our ken for
a score of years.
well. the end to her lamentable union
has been long In coming. longer than l an
ticipated. She is now widow, helpless
from i'll health and penniless. with a six
teen-year-old daughter, who is her only
stay in her lonely old age, and is q poor
| enough prop for the fraD but devoted
mother"
"Oh, don't tell me that Marian's daugh-
ter is not her sweet self over again. I
cried, lit would be too cruel to punish her
with an undutiful child along with her
| other sorrowS!'
Sara" said my friend. solemnly. 1.-The girl
| is as high bred and charming as her mother
ever was, but she is utterly lacking in what
my husband terms good horse sense!' she is
as helpless as a child so far as any really
| useful knowledge is concerned, and she has
| the ideas of a daughter Of the gods,
| think it is criminal negligence that
prompts a mother to rear a girl in ignor-
ance of all the useful occupations which
can be so easily learned at home. / found
Marian accidentally yesterday. They are
utterly destitute and starvation stares
| them in the face. The daughter. Lulu, ex-
poets to go in office in government en-
ploy Do you know that term makes me
sick? 1 hear it so much that l can almost
tell the story of each of them by intuition.
Why oh, why, do women persist in duling
| their lives in Office when there are much
better chances outsider"
II give it up" 1 promptly assured her.
Tell me about Marian. Can you keep her
! out of the maelstrom?'
Would Not .'stoOp.-
81 shall make the effort; but she told me
that she would consider anything that
might do for her only a makeshift until
she comes into her office which is far
enough in the distance. She seems to think
it the acme of human happiness to get a
place in the government employ; yet could
make her happy here and she would live
much more sheltered life. My little daughter
has no nurse now, and / intend to give her
in charge of Lulu. The duties will be light
and l shall pay her preposterously large
stipend because of Marian. But, Sara, /
actually dread to encounter her! She came
"
that / will hear from her in an unpleasant
way before the day is over. l do like to
have pretty well-behaved girls about me.
and consider 1t an advantage to my little
daughter She is such an initiative little
creature that she picks up the mannerisms
and 1 sometimes fear she will also adopt
the morals of her nurses. l try to sur
round her with the best Of influences but
my best plans will go off wrong. I have
tried to assist several seemingly deserving
girls recently. and if / thought that they
were fair samples Of the class would waste
no more time on them. That was what
made me ask your definition of lady
I am continually being told that lady
will not stoop to manual labor. have new
er considered that lady could 'stoop' to
anything. If a thing Is ignoble lady would
not do 1t. But no honest labor that has
for it's object the amelioration of human
ity's needs can be ignoble. hence there can
be no STOPPING to do 1t. 1 have been in
terested in a young lady who had place
In the pension office. and who unexpectedly
lost 1t recently. She had told me that she
was so anxious to study and improve her
-atf 7 he had