The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-28
MRS. MGLORYS TALKS.
A Lady Is Lady Under All Circum-
stances.

And so it's Mrs. Dooley who is
saying that 7 can't be a lady because I
have no carriage or footman?" quer-
| led Mrs. McGlory as Mrs. Finnegan
dropped in for chat.
But I'd not be after minding what
Mrs. Dooley says" was the soothing
reply. "She's been down on you ever
since you got ar-and-a-half
skirt at a bargain sale for 81 cents and
niver told her the sale was going on"
Mrs. Finnegan, being a lady don't
depend on horses ana carriages. 1t
don't depend on clothes. 1t don't de-
pend on houses nor money. 1t depends
on the blood. If we've the blood then
We are a lady, and the divil fly away
wild them as try to make out anything
else"
And I've been told We had the
blood, Mrs. McGlory.'
"And We were told no lie. If me
great-grandfather had had his rights
he would have been King of Ireland.
He had made all his arrangements to
be king, even to getting a dozen frill-
ed shirts, when England stepped in
and raised q row about it.. It's his
blood that runs in me veins. Mrs.
Finnegan. and who shall say that I'm
not a lady because I happen to be liv-
ing in Dinnison's tiniment? The blood
is the same whether We live in palace
or howell. It was Charles the X, or
William the w, or James the XIII,
who was compelled for three years to
drive jackass to market every day of
his life for five years but that didn't
make a common man of him. When
through with the jackass he become
king. 1t will be the same wild me-
When through wild Dinnison's tint
ment I will go to me castle in France"
Does it ever make yez tired to be
lady?" asked Mrs. Finnegan, with
sigh.
"Niver in this world, me frind. 1t
comes so natural that We don't notice
it."
"And don't yez have to be on the
watch to keep from doing the wrong
thing?"
'Niver agin. When 1 was child
of five fell into the water. If hadn't
had the blood of king in me I'd have
yelled and screamed and kicked about
and swallowed a barrel of water. I
knew the danger. Mrs. Finnegan, but
there was never a kick nor a yell.
just f1oated along until a gintleman
sees me and pulls me out by the hair
of me head. Five years later I was
stolen away by villain who wanted
to reap a big reward. There was no
crying nor kicking nor fainting away.
I simply bided my time like the little
lady that / was, until he found out that
me father couldn't raise fifteen cents
to save the whole family. and then he
gave me cuff on the ear and told me
to go on
But would yez be lady if yez was
knocked down by a garbage cart, Mrs.
McGlory?"
Il can answer yees that 1 would.
Mrs Finnegan. because 1 have been
right there. Two years ago, as I was
all dressed up and making an afternoon
call, 1 stopped on the street to fix me
garter Up behind me comes a garbage
cart and bumps into me and sprawls
me in the dust. What would have fol-
lowed had it been yerself, Mrs. FinneA
GAM"
II would have got up and cuffed the
head of that driver off his shoulders
and me language would have been
heard a mile away" SIS
Exactly, and there's the difference,
you see. composed me skirts, shut me
eyes, and lay there till a number of
gintlemen come to my assistance. While
one brushed the dust off, another call
ed for carriage to take me home, and