THE LADY AND THE WOMAN.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 273, 18 March 1918, Page 15

THE LADY AND THE WOMAN.

There is a difference between a lady and a woman, though both are females. The former is ornamental and useless; the latter is useful, but not ornamental. No female who works is a lady. A .rue lady is one who is nursed and tended by others from the cradle to the grave. To wait on others or to perform useful work is infra dig. It stamps any female who does it as a . . person. A true lady is some f imes called a “gentlewoman.” This means that her pretensions are large ind her resources limited. A lady who has condescended to bear children may nurse them in private. But it is bad taste to overdo that. She may net, however, without shocking opinion, cairy a child in her arms in public; par may she wheel the perambulator containing it For that purpose an inferior organism, called a nurse, must be employed. A female carrying a child in public stamps herself as a mere woman. A female, however, carrying a dog in public thereby entitles her elf to be caPed a lady. Babies for women, dogs for lad:es; that i: - the rule Any infraction of this leads invariably to loss of caste. The above is from an exchange. Evidently, as Artemus Ward says, it is “writ sarkastic.”