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Show lES-fcios.'ULo'fc't- f ' The misuse of the word lady and gentleman is almost universal. j Often this misuse is offensive, some- ? times irresistably funny. Once in : the dining room 'of a hotel, a table-girl table-girl asked me: "Has any other r lady taken your order?" I was J obliged to confess that had not had i an opportunity to give my orders r' to "any other lady." A little girl j of my acquaintance, whose instincts y and training had made her unusual- ly polite for a child startled the LI family by saying :"Mamma,the swill lady is at the back door." It was a poor woman who came regularly for the kitchen scraps for chickens and pigs. In a crowded Thirdav- enue car in New York, some gent- JV lemen, friend of mine, were seated. a M One of those gorgeous Bowery pro- M clucts, in loud ready-made clothes, x with a pronounced hat, profuse and M vulgar as to watch chain, pin ami m rings, and the face of a burglar off H duty, appeared in the doorway. 1 js (I r "Say, you fellows, move over'there , said the conductor to my friends, f "and give this gentleman a seat." r-Ex. |