Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-08-25
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 Fol answer his tyrant picked up the | 9uafav Press and began reading out from the want column saeh Items If information as that Young lady wishes houseworl1," ''colored lady will io washing etc.
 And the other day q boy called to sell fae some fish and introduced him. self as the son of the shad-lalg round the corner, and Rosa informed me that she had seed the porliee talSin' up old drunken lady No, you may not say 1t, at least if you are talking of me.
 lie squirmed. It's vp,garized I grant you. but. honestly. $ there any word which takes it's place. Doesn't woman sound enisque and unmannerly in some cOnnections?a
 She was truthful tyraut, and she gave a reluctant No to his first ques- tion and Yes to his second He con. tinaed, plaintively.
 Woman isn't a descriptive, generc name, including all ages, as is lady. and is certainly used in as many un- pleasant connections. Don't you hear of drunken woman Us often as the other phrase? Lady is a word which came in with ehivalry, and carries with f+ ,11fI. and adoration 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 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: T agree with you, and what's more l 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 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 being called affect mannish free-and- easiness of manners, lift their voices to screaming pitch in public places, and will apparently take any sort of rude ness OF 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 do with a young woman
 .t0n the other hand where do you find real chivalry and courtesy? You may laugh but l tell you it's among the so- called lower classes, who in adopting our lost titles, have apparently as sumed also the manners which go with them. You won't find tine 'colored gentlemen leaving his lady friend to scramble off the ear unassisted, or ind ing it too much trouble to raise his hat ur take the outside of the pavement as do our lanquid swells. And she is more punctiliously careful to address him as .Mr.'. to respect his dignity and pre- serve her own, than the woman who socially stands many peg higher. No, they may advertise themselves as wash ladies and gentlemen, but they deserve those names better than we"
 soh, certainly, agreed the tyrant, amiably. Which of us can wash?'
 Both men laughed. For the last word trust a-
 'eNomanla insisted the tyrant.-Phl' a&elphia Press.