WOMEN AND LADIES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3023, 4 March 1881, Page 4

WOMEN AND LADIES.

In the days of our fathers there were such things to be met with as men and women ; but now they are all gone, and in their place a race of gentlemen and ladies, or, to be still more refined, a race of ' ladies ancl gentlemen,' has sprung up. Women and girls are among the things that were. But ladies are found everywhere. Miss Martinean wished to see the women wards in a prison in Tennessee, ancl was answered by the warden,

'We have no ladies here at present, madam.'

Now, as far as the ladies were concerned, it was very well that none of them were in prison ; but then it sounds a little odd — ladies in prison ! It would seem bad enough for women to go to such a place. A lecturer, discoursing upon the characteristics of women, illustrated thus :—

' Who were the last at the cross ? — Ladies. Who were the first at the sepulchre ? —Ladies.'

On this modern improvement we have heard of but one thing that beats the above. It was the finishing touch to a marriage ceremony, performed by an exquisite divine up to all modern refinements. When he had thrown the chain of Hymen around the happy couple, he concluded by saying, ' I now pronounce you husband and lady.' The audience stuffed their handkerchiefs into their mouths, and got out of the room as quickly as possible to take breath.