| Show NOT A LADY queer ideas of the trades people of scotland the last time the significance of that very versatile and comprehensive word gentleman came up for discussion in the present writers hearing one of the talkers was reminded of the amusing experiences of an american woman in scotland says harpers weekly slie had been studying to be a trained nurse and went abroad in the summer in edinburgh she undertook to buy a mackintosh she found one that suited her but the price was too high she said to the shop girl 1 I have to work for my living and cant afford to pay so much you must sell it to me cheaper vait a minute said the girl and went to the rear of the shop to the proprietor and said that person would like that cloak but she anys ashes not a lady and wants a reduction whether she got the cloak or not did not appear but unquestionably she got a verc difference between the meaning of the word lady in scotland and its meaning in the united states |
