WOMAN A LADY.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3511, 27 March 1880, Page 4

WOMAN A LADY.

Wildnesg if a thing which girls cannot afford. Delicacy is a thing that cannot be lost or found. No art can restore the grape its bloom. Familiarity without confidence, without regard, is destructive to all that makes woman exalting and ennobling. ' " The world ia wide, these things are small; They may be nothing, but they are all." Nothing p It is the first duty of * woman to be a lady. Good breeding is good sense. Bad manners in a woman are immorality. Awkwardness may be ineradicable. Bashfulnesa is constitutional. Ignorance of etiquette is the result of circumstance. All can be condoned, and sot banish men or women from the amenities of their kind. But self possessed, unshrinking and aggressive coarse* ness of demeanor may be reckoned, asa state prison offence, and certainly merits that mild form of restraint called imprisonment for life. It is a shame for *pmen to be lectured on their manners. It is a bitter shame that they need it. "Women are the umpires of society. It is they to whom all mooted points should be referred. To be a lady is more than to be a prince. A lady is always in her right inalienably worthy of respect. To a lady, prince or peasant alike bow. Do* not'be restrained. Do not have impulses that need 'restraint. Do not wish to dance with the prince unsought; feel differently. Be sure you confer honour. Carry yonrself so loftily that' men will look up to you for reward, not at you in rebuke. The natural sentiment of man towards women is reference. He loses a large means of grace when he is obliged to account a being to be trained in propriety. A man's ideal is not wounded when a woman fails in worthy wisdom ; but if in grace, in fact, in sentiment, in delicacy, in kindness, she would be found wanting, he receives an inward hurt.—Gail Hamilton.