| Show BLUE bime STOCKINGS III lii the days of dr johnson a number of ladies formed themselves into a sort of club for the purpose of holding occasional meetings at which they might converse with distinguished literary men one of the tha most eminent of the gentlemen who attended the meetings always wore blue stockings and lie was so distinguished for his conversational powers that the remark b became common we can do nothing without blue stockings thus the meeting came to be called the blue stocking club and the lille title of biu blu bin blu stocking was as applied to the ladies who attended them the term was then consider considered rd highly complimentary to those to whom it wm was addressed of late years however the term blue stocking has somewhat fallen into reproach instead of being applied as at first to ladies generally of intellectual it tel worth it is how considered to belong ablong esp eci ally aily to those who devotes themselves entire 1 to literary pursuits to the sacrifice of all other oilier tha ima 11 employments 0 0 Y ments to ladies who make literature the tile one idea of their minds A lady may be literary and intellectual without being a luc lue liue inc |
