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WOMAN’S DEPARTMENT
What la a Lady and a Gentleman?
The use of the word “lady” to de
scribe all members ot the weaker sex
from the charwoman to la grande
dame with her palace on Fifth ave
nue, has of late become a common
offense, says a New York correspond
ent of the Philadelphia Press.
In spite of this fact, however, the
good old Saxon word has not entirely
lost its original significance, as will
be seen by reading the opinions which
follow from a number of prominent
men:
COL ROBERT G. INGERSOLL.
Above all, a lady is kind and
thoughtful of others. Whatever her
outward charms may be, her soul is
adorned with the jewels of honesty,
fidelity and virtue. If she is rich she
visits the poor, if poor, she is indus
trious Bnd hopeful. In her heart
there is none of the spirit of caste.
Without envying the higher she pities
the lower. As daughter she is affec
tionate, as wife faithful, as mother
loving and self-denying. Whether
handsome or homely, in robes or rags,
the perfect lady is the crown of the
world.
OLIVER SUMNER TEAL.
What is a lady? One who sells
things; all others are women.
BUPERINTBNDENT BYRNES.
The misapplication of the term lady
has nothing to do with the name in
itself. You can attach it to whatever
you like, or use it in any sense you
choose, but the word with its strong
significance remains the same. It
means a woman who by nature or re
quirement preserves a refinement and
elegance of manner which makes it
self felt wherever sho goes. She com
mands respect and gets it. Whether
in a handsome drawing-room or in
the crowded streets or some rough
district, her ladylike demeanor is
bound to have its effect, and by in
stinct people will know she is a lady
and treats her as such.
[M. H. SOTHERN.
Who can define a lady? She is a
perfume. We don’t know what to
name her. A lady has no definition
that I know of. In my opinion,
though, she is a well-bred, good
woman; a good woman above all.
Each man has his ideal and every oth
er man shatters it.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY NICOLL.
It seems to me that the essential
qualities of a lady are modesty, re
finement and a desire to consult the
feelings of others. A woman, in or
der to be a lady in the highest sense
of the term, should not be too asser
tive in manner, and should never act
as if she thought she knew more than
everyone else. A lady always does
kind, nice things, always loves her
home and uses her influence to make
men better and happier.
A. H. HUMMEL.
In my estimation a lady cbmpre
hends all that the loveliest, daintiest,
sweetest, tenderest, noblest and best
of womankind implies. In one word,
she is the superlative of her sex.
MAYOR GILROY.
A lady is a natural production, I do
not care whether she is rich or poor.
A lady is a woman who discharges
faithfully and tenderly all of the du
ties imposed upon her by the station
in life in which she finoe herself.
FATHER CORRIGAN.
What is a lady? She is an angel.
An angel in human form. There are
but two perfect ladies. One is dead
and the other can’t be found, Perfec
tion, you know, is found only in
heaven. Ent this question that you
ask me is a difficult one for a priest to
answer, because, you know, we are
commonly supposed to know nothing
about the ladies. And so, with priest
ly conservatism, I must content my
self with saying that I believe woman
is the surest means of bringing souls
to heaven. And is not that enough?
What more could one say?
WHAT CONSTITUTES A GENTLEMAN.
By the majority of people the term
gentleman is used to describe any
man who is well dressed, fairly wall
educated, and who always has money
in his pocket.
It is not so easy, however, to define
what the word does mean in its high
est sense.
I questioned a number of bright and
well-known women, whose opinions
•n the subject I submit:
AUNT LOUISE ELDRIDGE.
Aman who is kind and consider
ate to others, whether they are hie in
feriors or equals; a man who is as po
lite to old women as he is to a young
and handsome one. I am sure the
sight I saw the other day was the aot
of a true gentleman. A young actor
I know held the big bundle of an old
washerwoman on one armlwhile with
the other he helped her carefully on
the horse car. Now there is a lad who
was brought up in the right way, who
was taught to be courteous to all wo
men, and that to be gentlemanly to
the old and poor, never lowered his
dignity one whit.
I think you can also tell a gentle
man by the manner in which he com
ports himself at the table. No matter
how poor ha is he will know how to
handle his knife, fork and napkin if
he is well brought up. Another ex
cellent place to find out a gentleman
is in traveling—some men are such
hogs on trains and in hotels. I have
had plenty of chance to observe them,
I assure you, traveling around so long,
and such instances of selfishness as I
have seen in men who called them
selves gentlemen you could hardly
believe.
No man who is selfish can possibly
be a gentleman, because he is always
thinking of himself, and when called
upon to put himself out in any way to
oblige others, he will end by being
discourteous.
I am not one of those women who
expect a man tojump up and give me
a seat whenever I enter a oar. Wo
men who get into a crowded car ought
to expect to take their chances, and
oftentimes the hard-working man is
much more tired than the girl he va
cates his seat for, but Ido like to see
a man willing to do it, and not sit
still with an exasperatingly content
ed look on his face as if glad he was
cheating some woman out of a seat.
I don’t think a man is always un
gentlemanly because he does not get
up for a lady, but I certainly consider
it the act of a gentleman when he
gives his seat to the old or to a wo
man with a child in her arms.
HELEN DAUVRAY.
A gentleman? A man who can be
brilliant and intellectual without ego
tism; courageous without effrontery.
Honest to the extent of always declar
ing his unbiased opinion, regardless
of results. Loving without selfish
ness, passionate without lust. Just,
but humane, and never forgetting, es
pecially in the presense of women,
that his mother was a woman.
MARQUISE DE LANZA.
Having seen very few gentlemen in
the course of my career, my remarks
must be of necessity more speculative
than they would be were they based
upon actual experience of a wider
kind than I happen to possess.
I may say here that 1 am not one of
those who wax eloquent over what is
termed “Nature’s Noblemen,” for
while, of course, the fine traits to be
met with in this special class are es
sential to the true gentleman, he re
quires many other qualities which
the other never has and cannot ac
quire by any chance. I don’t want to
be considered snobbish, but I place
good blood before everything else
that goes to make a gentleman.
I have seen numerous aristocrats
who were anything but gentle
men, but that does not alter
the fact that a certain refining
instinct, which can be innerited
only, is needful for the gentleman. It
is ail nonsense to declare one man to
be as good as another. He isn’t al
ways, any more than a cart horse is
the equal of the racing steed, or the
mongrel in the gutter that of the thor
oughbred dog, who is as fine in his
way as a dainty child.
To good birth I would add good
breeding, and it is just this attribute
which the man of inferior birth finds
is most elusive and difficult of attain
ment.
The prime tests of good breeding
are invariable courtesy toward wom
en, strict honesty towards men, an
avoidance of exaggeration and excess
in tne ordinary affairs of existence
and an absolute control of passion in
any form.
These things are the outcome of the
broad and liberal culture, the knowl
edge wi the world, coupled with the
savoirfaire to recognize its foibles and
at the same time understand how to
escape them, that go to the making of
a gentleman. But with ail this he
must have nothing of either the prig
or the pedant in his composition, and
he must love virtue for its own sake
By virtue I don’t mean cheap forms of
morality, but a wide comprehension
and performance ot the every-day du
ties of life that have nothing to do
with the highways and byways of hu
man weakness.
I might supplement a list of manly
and noble qualities which appear obli
gatory, but when 1 say the gentleman
must be well born and well bred, 1
fancy that covers everything.
MRS. A. W. PALMER.
A truly gentle and generous heart
constitutes a gentleman in my eyes.
It makes no difference how badly he
is dressed; whether his clothes are ill
fitting or his linen frayed.
If a man’s heart is in the right place
he is sure to do the right thing. It
will prompt him to be kind to others,
courteous to women, honest and up
right in all his dealings. He may not
always be up in the latest fashion of
shaking hands, or in the hundred and
one little niceties that a fashion
able man prides himself upon, but he
will be thoughtful, considerate and a
man you can rely on under all circum
stances.
thk southern farm.
marie tempest.
a mind as white and pure as the
driven snow. A man, out of whose
mouth you never hear an unkind word
about a woman, and a man who re
spects his mother and family.
I detest a goody-goody man. I think,
as a usual thing, we find them insin
cere; but a man whom you can make a
friend of, and one whom you never
hear utter an obscene word, is what I
should consider an ideal gentleman.
LOIE FULLER, OR LA LOIS,
I suppose every one else would con
sider that a man who was invariably
polite to women under all circum
stances was a gentleman, eh? Well, I
don’t think so at all. You will us
ually find out that the very pleasing
courtesy you are enjoying at his
hands is costing some one else con
siderable worry or considerable busi
ness. I have just seen a case of this
kind exemplified, so I speak know
ingly. This man in question was
supposed to look after the affairs of a
professional woman, and be on hand
to receive salaries paid her, but his
extreme politness in taking a friend
of hers home one evening prevented
his being at his post, and she lost the
amount. The only excuse he offered
was that he couldn’t be impolite.
Perhaps I demand too much in a
man, and, probably my definition of a
gentleman would be “a man who
would do just as I wanted him to do
at all times, providing he did not
neglect his business.”
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Buffalo. For fourteen years this
company nas Deen numbered among
the heaviest reliable advertisers of the
United States, and in matter of pos
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revenue from the Erie Medical Com
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000 inhabitants (with a few excep
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this year. The financial standing of
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almost invaribly brings another. A
century ago the cures effected by
their system of treatment (which is
peculiar to themselves) would have
been regarded little short of miracu
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It is remarkable what a large per
centage of persons treated, voluntar
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thousands and thousands of such let
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file.
Correspondence is treated confiden
tially and all business dealings are
“on honor.”
A Woman of Great Pluck.
Another epoch in the history of wo
man’s strivings for the highest educa
tional privileges, advantages and hon
ors has just been marked by the en
trance of Mrs. Arthur Davis, of Wash
ington, into competition at Johns
Hopkins University for the degree of
doctor of philosophy. She has been
empelled as a member of the post
graduate class and will take the pre
scribed course, although even should
she stand above all in the examina
tions, she may never receive the de
gree nor the SSOO, both of which may
go to another below her in success, but
who, will happen to oe of male sex.
She will be handicapped, too, as no
male student ever was, for she will
have three small children, the young
est not yet 3 months old, to look after
while she is pursuing her arduous
studies, and she purposes to do her
whole duty by her family. And there
is every indication, from her past re
markable successes, that she will tri
umph even as did Miss Philippa Gar
rett Fawcett in the Cambridge math
ematical tripos three years ago. It is
pure love of the most difficult, and ac
counted the driest of the exact scien
ces, that is urging her in the under
taking, aud no mere desire for the
honor that would be hers in achieve
ment of so difficult a feat.
Mrs. Davis is just 30 years old. All
her life since she first went to school,
she has shown remarkable mathemat
ical ability. Her teachers at school
and her professors at the Columbian
University thought her a prodigy.
6he competed with a number of men
mathematicians for a high place in
the Nautical Almanac office several
years ago, routed them all in three
hours, and in two more had solved all
the difficult problems of higher math
ematics and astronomy submitted to
her, was pronounced by the enthu
siastic examiners “100-100,” more
than perfect, and got the place.
She was then Miss Elizabeth Pres
ton Brown, of Front Boy al, Va. She
has read tne proofs and verified the
problems for several of Prof. Gore’s
and Prof. Newcomb’s most difficult
works. For several years she has had
the government’s contract to calcu
late the ephemeris of the sun, and
still holds it. She calculates the or
bits of new comets discovered by Prof.
Newcombe and of those discovered at
the Lick observatory, and high com
mendations for her unusual mathe
matical ability has been accorded te
her by the Astronomical Journal.
Among her minor aohievments, she
discovered and corrected an error in
one of the tables of La Place, which
had been causing constant inaccura
cies.
Her husband is a member of the
geological survey, and is engaged in
work in southern California which
will keep him there most ot the time
his wife is studying at Johns Hop
kins. He sympathizes with her ambi
tion. The result of her efforts _ and
experiments at John Hopkins will be
looked for with interest. It will be
recalled that Miss Fawcett carried off
the highest mathematical honors at
Cambridge in 1890, ranking the senior
wrangler, who was one of the most
distinguished matuematioians in Eng
land. She, however, gained no fellow
ship, no pecuniary reward and receiv
ed no degree, because she was a wo
man. Perhaps John Hopkins may
be more generous, or more just, if
Mrs. Davis succeeds as she hopes.
To» Vague.
Dr. Bicknell had nursed his wife
through a long and dangerous illness.
When she was convalescent she want
en some diet stronger than the rice,
beef tea, etc., which had been her pre
scribed fare.
One day when the doctor was on the
point of leaving her for a visit to
another patient who lived a few miles
away, sne asked him if she might have
some chicken to eat. He hesitated
a while, but answered rather reluc
tantly, “Yes, you may eat a little
chicken.”
When he returned he asked if she
had eaten“anything.
“Yes,” she answered, “and I never
enjoyed anything so much.”
“Did you try the wing of the chick
en, as I told you?”
“The wing! I ate the whole chick
en. You said I might eat a little
one.”
The doctor was alarmed, but as no
harm came of it, he could afford to
laugh about it afterward.
Ella, four years old, asked her
grandfather to get her a bicycle.
“A bicycle, child; what do you want
with it?”
“To eat, GS'iXidpa. There’s a plenty
of them a hangin’ to the eaves of the
porch.”
She meant icicles of course.
A bright little boy of our acquain
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that as his baby brother was so sweet
he was sorry he “was not his ’whole’
brother.”
“Why,what do you mean?” she ask
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“Well, the baby that died was my
brother, wasn’t he? Then this one is
my half brother, and another would
be just a quarter-one, I guess.”
He carried an arithmetic to school
that afternoon.
The same little man recently took
his first capsule of quinine, and it
must have been too large a dose.
He startled his parents by appear
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after he had been tucked into his own
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He showed no haste nor alarm but,
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he said simply:
“I am not walking in my sleep,
mama. I just came to tell you that I
heard the angels singing in my sleep;
and when I woke I kept still and they
did not stop. Do you hear them?”
It was hard to be obliged to tell him
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