The record-union., 1895-12-25
TEE TRUE WOMAN.
"BeseIena" Comments on the Misuse
of Terms.
She Has No Use for ''Lady'' Help, But
Great Admiration for the True
and Noble Woman.

Especial Correspondence of Record-Union.)
PORTLAND ORB Dec. 15.-It's a
good thing to be a woman. When
say woman l don't mean that much
misused and abused word lady but
the good, plain, buXom word woman"
When you hear of a womanly woman
you imagine some one big and
strong, full of womanly sympathy and
help for all sorts and conditions, one
who is not afraid to lend helping hand
to sister in distress, who may be few
degrees lower in the social scale than
she is herself for fear her own social
position may be questioned. The true
woman does good in the sight of all
men. She is kind alike to the rich and
the poor, the high and the low, regard
less alike of so-called social position
and the sneers and gibes of her friends.
[ knew woman once, the leader of
one of the most aristocratic and exclu
sive social circles in a certain southern
city who every week sent her own pri-
vate carriage and coachman down to
her washerwoman's unpretentious little
cottage and gave the poor, hard-work-
ing woman who lived there a drive. |
suppose a lady would have hesitated
a long time before doing such charit-
able act. She would have wondered
what her fashionable sisters would say
to such proceeding. But thewoman who
braved the criticism of her friends did
not lose one bit of her social pretige;
on the contrary she was secretly ad-
mired by those who had not the courage
of their own convictions.
The object of the true woman's life
on this earth is to lend helping hand,
to bestow a kindly word, and to give
some poor struggling working girl one
little glance Of sunshine in her dreary,
monotonous round of toll, it will mean
so much to her, she will think of it for
days and nights and months afterward,
long after it has passed out of your
memory it will linger in hers, making
her dull life less hard by it's remem-
brance.
A true woman whose heart is full to
overlooking with truth, charity and
good will, doesn't stop to consider pub
lie opinion, and do you know, my
friends, that is the secret of her sue
cess in life, of her popularity with all
classes? There are some who have
idol, and they have elevated that golden
idol on pedestal and every day they
come and worship at its shrine and bow
down to it and obey bindly all of its
autocratic mandates. Some of these
women may have in their poor, frail,
foolish bodies warm, loving, true,
womanly hearts, but for fear of the
demon tvrant WHOM they Worship they
starve and crush all that is best and
good within them.
Poor old public opinioni How many
are the sins of commission you will be
held accountable for on the last great
| day of reckoning. God himself made a
woman-for does not the Bible tell us
so? God made a woman and he called
her a woman. The good book doesn't
say one word of his making lady"
who after all is but a creature of cir
| cumstances and environment. Not that
she may not be a lady at all times no
matter how humble her position, but
she should not forget the fact that she
| is a woman at all times.
1t is strange what mistaken sense of
| the word great many people have. In
| hiring servant girls, nine out of ten will
say, Are you the woman of the
| house?" and when 1 have meekly con-
! fessed that 1 am she will continue,
| ''Well, am the lady that has come to
see about the place"
There isn't the least bit Of use in get
ting angry, they wouldn't understand
| it, and no amount of explanation would
make them see wherein they were in
| error / have found through a long
and varied experience to simply say
| that Il don't care for a lady help to-
| day" They never catch on, and it
! saves an infinite amount Of trouble No
amount of persuasion could induce me
! to hire a lady" help. Why I'd feel
positively guilty should I dare to pre-
sumo to dictate to her, even a sugges-
| ton would seem out of place besides
I'd expect her to eat at the table with
me and help entertain the company in
the parlor and come and go whenever
she pleased. No. indeed, no lady" help
for me, but a good strong woman who
won't resent being called a woman. The
very name of woman not only adds
dignity to labor, but gives it added
grace and charm as we'll Shakespeare
seldom spoke of a lady. His woman he
called woman; in Loves Labor Lost"
he spoke of her as "a child Of one grand
mother Eve, a female, or for thy sweet
understanding, a woman"
Every one remembers these lines of
the poet Wordsworth "A perfect
woman, nobly planned, to warn, to COM
fort and command" And again this
same poet says, SHALT show us how
/ divine thing woman may be made y
And it's the same thing with hundred
other poets.
To be noble woman first, my friends,
and lady afterward should be your de-
sire. BESELENA
\ Carp Took His False Teeth.
| Carp are so plentiful in the Delaware