The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-06

WORLD.

article on the subject, What Is
-l.o+ Lady" Max O'Rell. in an ar
80. in the New York Journal says
80. friend of mine. who visits the poor
49, district once called at tenement
,..,so "a inquire after poor woman VINO
u, The woman who answered the
o,,.ed to some one upstairs: with
tell the lady on the second moor tna'
young person from the district mas
allied 10 see her?'
,asv acquaintance, who once happen-
70 he alone in her home with a manu.
10 was i'll. out of consideration for that
MI herself to open the door to
[.,.r4 she had seen go up the steps OF ner
,.,.,s, go as to save the maid the trouoie
-,,s UPSTAIRS The following day
~. maid told a servant next door that
- mistress was no lady" as she ans
uered her door herself
what Is a lady?" asks Lady Violet
Grevllle.
-,+t, davis. when every class strives TO
49,. the others above, when all people are
81 70 their superiors and superior to
their equals.
WITH the modern extravaganza In dress,
.. hoisterous hats, the outrageously de-
col,ete dresses in restaurants ana otnef
rublic places, the cigarette smoking, the
ard playing for high stakes, and what
,+ shall feel inclined to answer: You
90, tell a lady by the efforts she makes
a he taken for-anything but lady.
Every class of society has its own DELI
.,,.,or ~ a lady. To the Inhabitants of the
.,,rs If IS a woman who stops her nose
hon In contact with them; to servants 1t
t ono who does not do stroke of work
IN her house pays their wages regularly
throws at them her left-off clothes ana
treats them like dirt; to tradespeople 1t Is
one who pays cash for what she buys;
for dressmakers and milliners 1t Is a wom-
an who never bargains and is known new
or To wear her gowns and hats more than
half dozen times.
What is that new supreme desire 10
mass for lady?
1T proceeds purely" says Lady Violet
Grevile, from a wish to initiate; 1t Is
vugarity pure and simple.
at is the aspiration after gentility, the
1dnging to appear what we are not. The
desire of the fly for the dinner lamp.
at is the natural consequence of the re-
ugion of the Anglo-Saxon race-make be-
lieve.
"A real ladys existence" continues Her
Iadvship. seems to outsiders to be all
sweetness and passed in a land of milk
and honey: whereas, in reality, could her
moor crawling admirers realize it, the
modern lady's life is compound of hard
work. exhausting excitement, anxious
ease and infinite disillusion. To begin
with she is often poorer than her pros
porous neighbor, compelled to practice
petty and CALLING economies, travel second
class. wear cleaned gloves and spend I'M
pleasant moments in street cars and om-
nibuses. II is the vulgar nouveaux riches
who own the carriages. the horses, the
jewels and the money
Yet the vulgar rich may be as lavish
as they please. may throw gold out of the
windows, give a small fortune for their
horses and carriages; they have not
enough money to buy what that lady pos
sesses, her delicacy and refinement. Even
their servants know that, for they can
take the measure of the mushroom nobili-
ty to a T.
In few years more, no doubt, the
word lady" entirely Invested of the origi-
nal meaning, far away buried in the
mists of time will merely be the equiva-
lent of the feminine gender, the female
of the male, and then the gentler-bred
and wiser of the sex will exult in bravely
calling themselves women. And they will
be right A perfect woman sounds to my
ears far more sweetly than a perfect lady.
There is no misunderstanding about the
former. Il am not an angel" says an
lngenue to her finance in some French
play, the name of which now escapes me,
don't expect too much from me. I am
only a woman" A woman; only a wom-
an! Heavens that is good enough for any
body.
have had more than a glance at the
Boer ladies' of the Kruger party, says a
writer in London Truth. They are nice,
and enjoy constant flow of high spirits
one has to go East to see such tittering
and giggling as they keep up when they
see how they attract the other sex There
Is French word that is applicable to
the Boer ladies / have seen here-agui-
chantes. 1t means that they attract
the other sex as sugar does flies. Were
II not for their principles they would be
the ideal companions of French students
on Sunday excursions. The feet are the
uhlest l ever saw on grown-up persons,
the figures are flexible, plump and grace
ful and the faces really captivating, but
more winsome and bonnie than beautiful
French journalist who fell in with them
III the restaurant car this side of Dion
left the train daft about them. He could
not decide with which he should be the
most in love. They must pay great atten-
uon to dress and spend a good deal Of
money on it.
when 1t was announced that Robert w.
wilcox had been chosen as the delegate
IN congress from Hawaii there were
statements set af1oat that he would be
uehed his seat on grounds similar to
those that were potent in the case of Rep
Tesentative Roberts of Utah. While Mr..
wilcox is not, strictly speaking, a polyg-
Hhlst, he has two wives living From one
Oh these he has been divorced. but there
Is cloud on the proceedings that some
regard as vital to the social standing OF
MS present wife. His first wife, the Prin-
cess Gina Colonna Soprere De Stagliono.
Is an Italian woman, and although the
par have been separated for years she
sun regards him as her lawful husband.
IN letter to lady residing in Southern
'alltornia the Princess Colonna recently
wrote that she contemplated visit to
america in the near future, and then
says: 4 can never forgive the man who
ruined my young life and who deceived
me INTO marrying him by wicked and
RAISE stories as to our future life in Ha-
wan. The post of honor to which he as
pres In the Congress of America shall
never be his 81 I on et0 IL